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University of New Mexico EMS Physician Scene Response Program
The UNM EMS Physician Scene Response Program provides emergency physician-level care to the public in the Albuquerque area.
When the Response program goes live in Summer, 2010, experienced, on-call EMS physicians will be available to consult and meet-up with any
EMS agencies affiliated with the UNM EMS Medical Direction Consortium. UNM emergency physicians will respond in fully-equipped vehicles that
provide equipment and expertise not generally available to traditional EMS services. This includes advanced pharmacology, airway management and ultrasound.
EMS Fellows or (doctors who have completed their residencies in emergency medicine and are studying EMS intensively for 1-2 years) or Senior Emergency Medicine Residents will provide primary response. Core EMS faculty physicians from the UNM EMS Consortium will provide backup and supervisory response.
The UNM EMS Physician Scene Response Program has several goals:
- 1. Teaching/learning: Enhancing the education of EMS providers and quality of EMS care by offering real-time feedback at the scene of a call.
Simultaneously exposing physicians to the complicated realities of EMS field work.
- 2. Enhanced patient care
- a. Advanced procedures: RSI, chemical extrication, ultrasound, etc.
- b. On-scene MCI triage to aid release of the “walking wounded”
- c. Assistance with high-risk patient refusals and combative patients
- d. HazMat situations
- e. Assist with critical care inter-facility transports
- f. Assistance with release at scene of patients with minor conditions
- g. Back-up to ILS/BLS units
- 3. Improved safety
- a. Response to occupational exposures and injured providers
- b. Improved control combative patients
- 4. Improved system design and functioning
- a. Direct feedback to training agencies
- b. Direct feedback to Medical Control Board
- c. Direct feedback to receiving hospitals and MCEPs
All physicians who participate in the program have received specialty training: At a minimum, responding physicians possess the following minimum training or equivalent:
- 1. Emergency Vehicle Operating Course (EVOC)
- 2. Medical Control Emergency Physician (MCEP)
- 3. Advanced HazMat Life Support (AHLS)
- 4. Vehicle extrication
- 5. Incident Command System
- 6. Basic tactical medicine course
- 7. Radio Operations
- 8. Fire-ground awareness
- 9. Introduction to Prehospital
Responses can be requested by any EMS agency participating in the UNM EMS Medical Direction Consortium.