Administer treatments and medication

Given the population demographics and physical environment your agency serves, your agency may encounter a number of medical issues with more regularity than others. It can be valuable to have short lists of the treatments for the most-common medical issues readily available in the EHR module, when there is need for immediate, urgent documentation, such as time stamp on performing a procedure or administering a medication.

Understand the link between the EHR and Admin module, when identifying treatments and medications for these short lists.

Your ESO Suite administrator can enable up to 20 treatments in three different categories that your agency's medics use most frequently, for quick access in the EHR module.

The options that appear in the dialog box are defined in the Admin module, under EHR > Quick Treats.

Example: In the EHR module, for general treatments, you may need frequently used general treatment options such as ALS Assessment, Cardiac Markers, and Pericardiocentesis. Your Admin module administrator must enable the corresponding ADL agency-defined list items in the Admin module, under EHR > Quick Treats > General, for these items to appear as choices in the EHR electronic health records module when you click the quick treats icon in the upper right corner, then click General in the menu that appears.      Similarly, you may need frequently administered medications such as Codeine, Fentanyl, Tramadol, and Tylenol. Your Admin module administrator must enable the corresponding ADL agency-defined list items in the Admin module, under EHR > Quick Treats > Medication, for these items to appear as choices in the EHR electronic health records module.

If no options appear, or if the menu does not have an option that meets your needs, contact your ESO Suite administrator and ask them to add the necessary menu choices. You will need to work closely with your administrator to create and maintain these lists, as your department's needs evolve over time.

Information on defining these options is available in the Admin module help, in Identify quick treatments.

1. (If you have not done so already) Access the EHR module in the ESO Suite.

   1. Do one of the following.

      • (If you are already working in the ESO Suite) Click the Home icon in the upper left corner of the screen.

        

      • (If you have not yet logged in) Log in to the ESO Suite.

        1. In a web browser, go to https://www.esosuite.net/EsoSuite.

           The ESO Suite login screen appears.

        2. Enter your user name, password, and agency name, then click Let's Go.

           If MFA multi-factor authentication is enabled, the Multi-factor authentication dialog box appears, displaying one or more methods you can use to verify your login credentials. The number of methods that appear in the dialog box depends on what MFA methods your ESO Suite administrators enabled in the Admin module.

           Click graphics to open them.

           Information on enabling MFA and specific MFA methods is available in the Admin module online help, in Configure multiple-factor authentication.

           Note: If your ESO Suite administrators have disabled MFA ("opted-out"), this dialog does not appear.

        3. (If the Multi-factor authentication dialog box appears) Depending on which buttons appear in the dialog box, verify your login in one of the following ways.

           With an authenticator application.

           1. Click MFA verification via authenticator app.

              The dialog box updates with boxes for entering the numbers of the authentication code, and the ESO Suite sends an authentication code to the authenticator application installed on your device.

              

           2. Open your authenticator application and note the authentication code currently displayed.

           3. Enter the authentication code displayed in the authenticator application.

           4. Click Log In.

           With a text message (SMS short message service).

           1. Click MFA verification via SMS.

              The dialog box updates with boxes for entering the numbers of the authentication code, and the ESO Suite sends an authentication code to the phone number recorded in your PM records and identified with MFA codes.

              

           2. Enter the authentication code sent to your MFA-registered phone number.

           3. Click Log In.

           With an email message.

           1. Click MFA verification via email.

              The dialog box updates with boxes for entering the numbers of the authentication code, and the ESO Suite sends an authentication code to your agency or department email address, recorded in your PM records.

              

           2. Enter the authentication code sent to your agency or department email address.

           3. Click Log In.

      The ESO Suite landing screen appears.

      Click graphics to open them.

      Note: If MFA multi-factor authentication is enabled, you can access and manage your MFA options through the PM module, on the Settings > Account page, as described in Manage a user account. If your agency or department has enabled MFA but has not purchased the full-featured version of the PM module, you can access your own MFA settings by clicking Change my Multi-Factor Authentication settings on the landing screen, then using the Settings > Account page that appears. If your agency has not enabled MFA, the Change my Multi-Factor Authentication settings link does not appear on the landing screen.

   2. On the top side of the home screen, click EHR.

      Tip: If your screen or browser window is too narrow to display all your agency's ESO Suite module icons, an options icon appears on the right side of the icon bar. If you click the options icon, a menu appears containing additional module icons.

      The EHR screen appears, displaying a list of patient records in the EHR module. The most-recent records appear at the top of the list.

      

      Different record status icons can appear in the list.

      Icon	Status
      	Unlocked/Draft The patient record exists in the ESO Suite database, and all crew members listed in the patient record may edit all fields in the record. ESO Suite administrators and personnel with security roles of either EHR Supervisor or EHR Manager can edit non-clinical fields.
      	Mobile The patient record exists on the mobile device, and has not been synchronized with the ESO Suite database. ESO Suite administrators, personnel with security roles of either EHR Supervisor or EHR Manager, and all crew members listed in the patient record can only access a print view of the record. Once the Mobile record synchronizes with the ESO Suite database. the record reflects its current status.
      	Locked The patient record exists in the ESO Suite database, and is locked. Only non-clinical fields can be edited by crew members listed in the patient record, ESO Suite administrators and personnel with security roles of either EHR Supervisor or EHR Manager.

2. (If you have not done so already) Add a new patient record, or search for the existing patient record you want to work with.

   Information on adding or opening a patient record is available in Add a patient record and Search for a patient record.

   The patient record opens and displays the Incident tab, with the Response bookmark selected in the left pane. Fields appear in the right pane for specifying basic information about the incident

   

   If you manually created a new patient record, the Incident Number and State Tracking Number fields populate automatically with ESO Suite-assigned values. You must enter data in all other required fields.

   If you imported data from a CAD Computer Aided Dispatch system, the Incident Number field populates with the data from that source. Other fields in the EHR module may also populate from these sources, depending on what data was recorded in them before the data was imported into the EHR module.

3. In the upper right corner of the page, click the red shortcuts menu.

   Note: In the EHR module, this menu is referred to as the "Quick Treats" (quick treatments) menu.

   

   The contents of the menu appears to the left, across the top of the page.

   

4. Depending on what treatment or medication you need to quickly access, click General, CPR, or Medications.

   The corresponding General, CPR, or Medications page appears.

           

5. In the page, click each of the treatments or medications your EMS Emergency Medical Services personnel perform or administer.

   A small green circle with a number appears in the upper right corner of each selected treatment or medication. The number indicates the number of times you clicked the button, indicating the number of times you performed the treatment or administered the medication.

       

6. (If necessary) Click a treatment or medication again to reflect multiple treatments.

7. In the upper right corner of the page, click OK.

   The EHR module automatically adds the treatments or medications to the patient's PCR patient care report.