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 a disaster network, establish and operationalize a partnership for Denver Health Response
Align plans, policies, processes and procedures related to clinical excellence in disasters
Increase statewide and regional medical surge capacity
Improve statewide and regional situational awareness
Develop readiness metrics and conduct an exercise to test capabilities
Implementation, managing incidents, HIMS Unites real-time with hospital incident command system
Build a disaster network, establish and operationalize a partnership for Disaster Health Response
Align plans, policies, processes and procedures related to clinical excellence in disasters
Improve statewide and regional situational awareness
Increase statewide and regional medical surge capacity
Develop readiness metrics and conduct an exercise to test capabilities
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: 10/17/2024.
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: 10/17/2024)
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
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)
Dr. Gavin Harris, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University, provides a background on hantaviruses and reviews the clinical case definition, diagnostics, and management of New World hantaviruses. The module can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/bRfYn-Gv5O4
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.
