Table 2 Point of care (POC) assessment and intervention prospects to avert hospital readmissions
Opportunities to avert a readmission in the emergency room |
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1. Point of care (POC) ultrasonography (Ramsingh et al. 2015) for bedside assessment of cardiopulmonary function, volume status, vascular access, gastric volume, bladder volume |
2. Advanced pain management intervention including multimodal therapy with regional techniques ± indwelling catheters |
3. Liaisons to surgical services that may be confined to the operating room and delayed in patient assessment |
4. Patient education, medication reconciliation, expectation management, multimodal anxiolysis |
5. Postoperative nausea and emesis management |
6. Assessment and management of perioperative medical complications |
7. Assistance with transitions in care with community primary care providers (PCPs) or other specialists to provide rapid and appropriate disposition planning |