Mountain Plains Regional Disaster Health Response System

MPRDHRS is a collaborative effort, housed at Denver Health & Hospital Authority, in partnership with HHS Region VIII: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming, funded by the Administration of Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) to improve medical surge and clinical specialty capabilities during an emergency and save lives.

BUILD

Build a disaster network, establish and operationalize a partnership for Denver Health Response

ALIGN

Align plans, policies, processes and procedures related to clinical excellence in disasters

INCREASE

Increase statewide and regional medical surge capacity

IMPROVE

Improve statewide and regional situational awareness

DEVELOP

Develop readiness metrics and conduct an exercise to test capabilities

COORDINATE

Implementation, managing incidents, HIMS Unites real-time with hospital incident command system

Program Capabilities

BUILD

Build a disaster network, establish and operationalize a partnership for Disaster Health Response

ALIGN

Align plans, policies, processes and procedures related to clinical excellence in disasters

IMPROVE

Improve statewide and regional situational awareness

INCREASE

Increase statewide and regional medical surge capacity

DEVELOP

Develop readiness metrics and conduct an exercise to test capabilities

Current Updates

ONGOING:
IV Solution Shortage Resource Support

In light of the potential IV solution shortages in facilities across Region VIII, MPRDHRS has gathered resources for our partners to inform situational awareness, medication management, and vendor updates. This information can be accessed here.

This resource guide will be updated as new information is made available. Last Updated: 11/12/2024.

Additionally, quick reference guides developed by Denver Health, can be accessed to inform adult oral rehydration and the use of small & large volume fluids amidst the shortage. (Last Updated: 10/24/2024)

If you are aware of additional resources available that are not listed, or would like to request assistance from the MPRDHRS Medical Advisory Panel, please email MountainPlainsRDHRS@dhha.org.

MPRDHRS Medical Advisory Panel | Blood Culture Bottle Shortage

The Mountain Plains Regional Disaster Health System Medical Advisory Panel (MPRDHRS MAP) provided expert guidance and supported an informative webinar on August 29th 2024, in response to the ongoing blood culture bottle shortage impacting healthcare facilities that utilize the Becton Dickinson (BD) bottle. Dr. Anuj Mehta and Dr. Matt Wynia have written an opinion piece on what can be learned from this shortage in MedPage here: What Can We Learn From Blood Culture Bottle Shortage? | MedPage Today

The webinar recording can be accessed here and the guidance can be viewed here: Microsoft Word – MPRDHRS MAP blood culture interim guidance (mountainplainsrdhrs.org)

JIT Learning Series | Introduction to Clinical Management of Exposure to Arenaviruses

Dr. Vanessa Raabe of Pfizer presents on the initial management, infection control, supportive care, and treatment regimen for those exposed to arenaviruses in Introduction to Clinical Management of Exposure to Arenaviruses. 

To recording can be accessed here. To view the associated one-pager, click here.

Rural EMS Education Series | ECG Interpretation

Emily Pascual, nurse practitioner and senior instructor of cardiac electrophysiology at University of Colorado reviews how to interpret the electrocardiogram. Concepts including Eithoven’s triangle, standard limb leads, augmented unipolar limb leads, precordial leads, and RRPPQ are discussed. The recorded session can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/VSaezKxJ1r4

The Rural EMS Education Series occurs every 4th Wednesday of the month from 6PM-8PM MST. Free CE’s are available to attendees of the live session, registration can be accessed here.

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