Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services

COVID-19

• Donning & Doffing PPE for Infection Control (≥ PL1)

Online Master Document

Updates and Changes

Field Guide for COGs Cover Page

Clinical Guidelines

• Universal Patient Care
• Abdominal Pain
• Airway Management & Ventilation
• Allergic Reaction
• Altered Mental Status
• Behavioral & Excited Delirium
• Bites and Envenomation
• Burns
• Carbon Monoxide
• Cardiac Arrest, Pulseless VTACH & VFIB
• Chest Pain, Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome
• Crush Injury
• Cyanide
• Drowning/Submersion
• Epistaxis
• ETOH Withdrawal
• Eye Injury/Complaint
• Fever/Infection Control
• Hypertension, Acute & Symptomatic
• Environmental Hyperthermia
• Hypotension Non-Traumatic
• Hypothermia Environmental
• IV Access
• Nausea/Vomiting
• Obstetrical Emergencies, Labor, and New Born Care
• Organophosphate Exposure
• Overdose
• Pain Management
• Patient Referral Guideline for ATU, MCOT or Psychiatric ED
• Patient Referral Guideline for Sobering Center ED
• Pulmonary Edema
• Respiratory Distress
• Seizure
• Sepsis and Septic Shock
• Spinal Motion Restriction (SMR)
• START or Jump START Triage Algorithm
• Stroke
• Syncope
• Trauma, General
• Traumatic Cardiac Arrest

Clinical Procedures

• Nasopharyngeal & Oropharyngeal Swab Collection (≥PL2)

Hospital Transport Grid

Medication Administration and Cross Check (≥ PL1)

Drug Formulary

• Field Guide for COGs Medication Formulary
• Acetaminophen
• Adenosine
• Albuterol
• Amiodarone
• Aspirin
• Atropine Sulfate
• Calcium Chloride
• Dextrose
• Diltiazem
• Diphenhydramine
• Epinephrine
• Fentanyl
• Glucagon
• Haloperidol
• Hurricaine/Cetacaine Spray
• Hydroxocobalamin
• Ibuprofen
• Ipratropium Bromide
• Ketamine
• Ketorolac (Toradol)
• Lidocaine
• Magnesium Sulfate
• Methylprednisolone
• Midazolam
• Naloxone
• Neo-Synephrine
• Nitroglycerin
• Norepinephrine
• Ondansetron
• Oral Glucose
• Rocuronium Bromide
• Sodium Bicarbonate
• Tranexamic Acid (TXA)
• Vecuronium Bromide
• Xylocaine Gel

Credentials and Authorized Procedures

• OMDR-3. Authorized Skills per Credential Level
• OMDR-9. Credentialing Requirements

Medical Directives

• Joint Medical Director Position Statement – Air Medical Utilization
• Utilization Problem Statement
• MD-19-03. Update Clinical Operating Guidelines (annual) to NEW Version (v09.02.19)
• MD-19-08. Clinical Reference: Hospital Transport Grid
• MD-20-02 Rocuronium
• MD-20-03 Added Baylor S&W Austin to Transport Grid
• MD-20-04 Update to Novel Coronavirus Screening Tool
• MD-20-05 Collecting Nasopharyngeal & Oropharyngeal Swabs
• MD-20-06 Modifications to Respiratory Related Clinical Guidelines When Treating a Patient Suspected to Have Infectious Respiratory Pathology
• MD-20-07 Addition of St. David's Georgetown for Suspected COVID-19 Patients