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Scientific Assembly

Breve Dulce

Session: Breve Dulce III

1, 2, 3...Not It! - EMS Medical Direction for the non-EMS Physician

Wednesday, April 9, 2025
11:25am – 11:35am ET
Location: Sandringham/Windsor - 2nd Level
CE: 0.25 CME Credit
EMS Recorded Session

    Speaker(s)

  • Craig Cooley, MD, MPH, EMT-P, FAAEM, FACEP, FAEMS

    Director of Emergency Medical Services | Director- EMS Fellowship | Clin Associate Professor
    UT Health San Antonio (UTHSA) Emergency Medicine
    San Antonio, Texas

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Disclosure(s):
Craig Cooley, MD, MPH, EMT-P, FAAEM, FACEP, FAEMS: No financial relationships to disclose
Although a growing number of EMS systems uses a centralized system for online medical direction with EMS physicians, the majority of online direction is still given by destination hospitals. EM physicians are asked to provide this online support, often with limited knowledge of local protocols and with a varied background and experience with EMS medical direction. This talk will cover some of the fundamentals involving prehospital scope of practice, clinical and legal pitfalls, as well as some general do’s and don'ts when providing online medical direction. Whether fresh out of residency or several years in, participants will come away better prepared to provide effective and meaningful online medical direction for our prehospital providers and inbound patients.

Learning Objectives:

  • describe the basic scope of practice levels for prehospital providers as they pertain to online medical direction
  • list the high risk online medical direction call types
  • define the key elements of an appropriate and complete online medical direction call