Chronic Care Management

Clinic

  Click to access ChronicCareManagement.pdf Click to access chronic_care_management_toolkit.pdf Chronic Care Model...

Calculating How Much Formula or Breastmilk a Child Should Be Eating

Clinic, Clinic A/P, Peds, Hospital A/P, Peds, INFANT NUTRITION AND GROWTH

Energy Requirements or Calorie Intake for Infants, Children, and Adolescents -Formula and Breastmilk each has 20 kcal/oz. That is, 1 Oz of formula or breastmilk has 20 kcal of energy. -30 ml = 1oz. -Look at an energy requirement’s chart to get the energy...

Pediatric emergencies in the Outpatient Setting

Clinic, Clinic A/P, Peds

Pediatric Emergencies in the Clinic Setting Respiratory emergencies, Seizures, infections (especially in young infants), and Shock/dehydration are reported most often, and Serious traumatic injuries have also been noted. In a survey of 1000 randomly selected,...

Wells Criteria and Modified Wells Criteria: Assessment for Pulmonary Embolism

Clinic, HOSPITAL MEDICINE

When to use: “The Wells’ Criteria risk stratifies patients for pulmonary embolism (PE) and provides an estimated pre-test probability. The physician can then chose what further testing is required for diagnosing pulmonary embolism (I.E. d-dimer or CT...

Glomerular Filtration Rate vs. Creatinine Clearance

Clinic, HOSPITAL MEDICINE, NEPHROLOGY

The creatinine clearance (CrCl) is used to estimate the glomerular filtration rate (GFR). It’s hard to directly measure the GFR, so we use CrCl –something we can measure–to estimate the GFR.  Creatinine is derived from the metabolism of creatine in...

Standing Orders

Clinic

   Chief Complain Orders Chest Pain, Shortness of Breath Triage with Provider Abdominal pain – with n/v and / or missed menstrual period / possibility of pregnancy (reproductive age)  Urine pregnancy test  Acute low back pain / Groin pain – without...