Jan 21, 2011:    Rescue Service Administrator rights adjusted

Rescue Service Administrator rights adjusted to allow access to all QA/QI notes for the service, and to allow access to training records.

Jan 21, 2011:    Burn descriptions in Injury/Burn assessment changed to accomodate programming limitationsl of graphic assessment tool. 
 

Due to programming limitations, the EMEDS Team has changed the way burn values are listed in the Injury/Burn Assessment section of EMEDS.

Please notify or point out these changes to your providers before going live on EMEDS.

ImageTrend has determined that in order for burn values to work correctly in the graphic assessment tool (Flash animation of body types – Man, Woman, Child, Baby) the burn values must be listed exactly as listed below in order to transfer to the flash-animated assessment tool and back to the database. We have advised them that this needs to change long term, but for now this is a limitation of how the application is programmed. Therefore have changed EMEDS back to the standard values ImageTrend allows.

EMEDS previously listed list burns as follows: 

Burn – Superficial (First Degree)
Burn – Partial thickness (Second Degree)
Burn – Full thickness (Third Degree)

Burn values are now listed this way:

For first degree burns:                 Burn Redness
for second degree burns:             Burn Blistering
for third degree burns:                 Burn Charring

These descriptions are less accurate, and not intuitive in the case of describing a third degree burn as “charring”. The EMEDS team, including Dr. Alcorta, will continue to work with ImageTrend to correct and improve these descriptions in the future.

 Please notify or point out these changes to your providers before going live on EMEDS.