***Civilian Contract Position at Travis Air Force Base***
FT Contract Position- March 2010- September 2010 with 4 option years
Sunday- Saturday Schedule
Responsibilities:
~Be capable of performing the full range of emergency medicine services to include the ability and experience to adequately diagnose and treat diseases and injuries.
~Be able to adequately perform medical procedures to include, but not limited to, the following:
• Incision and drainage
• Nail Trephination
• Sling or swath of injuries
• Bandage
• Reduce dislocations and fractures when appropriate
• Stabilize and evaluate cervical spine injuries as appropriate
• Lumbar puncture
• Pericardiocentesis
• Removal of foreign bodies as appropriate
• Deliver newborn/perform emergency vaginal deliveries
• Perform venous punctures for lab studies and interpret results
• Draw arterial blood gases for evaluation and interpret results
• Suture or staple simple and multilayered lacerations
• Remove sutures, surgical staples
• Tube thoracostomy
• Open thoracotomy
• Secure and maintain an adequate airway, by such means as:
o oral airways; oral tracheal intubation; nasal/tracheal intubation; crico thyrotomy (needle and surgical)
• Splint and stabilize traumatic injuries to extremities
• Administer intravenous, intramuscular and subcutaneous injections
• Prescribe and administer medications as appropriate
• Secure and maintain adequate intravenous access by peripheral and by central routes
• Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage (DPL)
• Bladder catherization
• NG/OG tubes
• Local anesthesia
• Restraints
• Procedural sedation
• Selected screening ultrasound exams
~Examine patient, render a medical assessment of their condition, and take appropriate action.
~Provide immediate evaluation and management of emergency patients.
~Provide definitive medical care to reduce the emergency medical condition and enable the patient to safely pursue follow-up care as an outpatient as required. Follow up of abnormal laboratory and/or imaging study, reports is the responsibility of the ordering physician. Review each report in accordance with established MTF procedures.
~Respond to "Code Blue" (cardiac or respiratory arrest) medical emergency alerts within the hospital and provide resuscitation treatment until more specialized treatment arrives. Should resuscitation efforts be unsuccessful, the physician shall pronounce the patient dead and notify the next of kin, if the next of kin is physically present. Although completion of the death certificate is primarily the responsibility of the patient’s primary physician, the Emergency Services physician can complete this document if all the appropriate information is available.
~Reassure and treat non-acute conditions in priority as established by medical triage.
