STEP 1: RECEIVE ALERT
- You will receive the alert just like you receive regular prehospital alerts daily
- (1) Tap the banner to see patient details
STEP 2: ACTIVATE (IF DOWNSTREAM TEAMS CONNECTED)
- (2) Tap Activate to activate downstream care teams.
- Users have the option of selecting Trauma Level or activating without trauma level
- Tip: This step can be skipped if a user doesn’t have downstream care teams configured. If you have downstream care teams connected, you need to ”Activate” to prevent repeat alerts.
- Tip: For large-scale Incidents, you can silence alerts for individual patients (bell icon on individual patient screen).
STEP 3: FIND PATIENT ON PATIENT ARRIVAL
- From the main patient screen, tap SCAN (3a) to scan the wristband (or other Incident ID) to open the patient channel.
- NOTE: Users can also find the patient on the list by tapping on the channel. If the patient isn’t visible under My Patients, tap ALL patients (3b) at the top center for an expanded list. Scanning is much preferred if enabled.
STEP 4: SET ED ARRIVAL TIME (4)
- It is important to set the ED Arrival so Incident Command knows the patient has arrived
- This is particularly important when patients might be arriving by personal vehicle, rideshare, PD, etc., and the hospital has communicated availability to take ___ number of patients
- Setting ED Arrival and entering these patients will help Incident Command appropriately load balance and not overload the hospital system, if possible
For information on how to use Pulsara HQ for patients in an incident review Manage an Incident in HQ.