Emergency medicine, physician assistant vs pediatric physician assistant

Differences between emergency medicine, physician assistant and pediatric physician assistant duties and responsibilities

Emergency medicine, physician assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage a wide variety of chronic health problems including hypertension, diabetes, endocrine disorders and psychiatric illness.
• Manage lower acuity patients independently and staff higher acuity patients with an attending physician.
• Evaluate and manage patients with acute illnesses/injuries in a fast pace, dynamic emergency department environment.
• Develop and teach a diabetes education course in Spanish.
• Assist with lumbar punctures, central lines, intubation and resuscitation.
• Execute emergency endotracheal intubation, passage of NG tubes and long intestinal tubes, CPR and defibrillation.
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Pediatric physician assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage general medical problems and medications for inpatient adult and pediatric patients including inpatient rounding, admission and discharge summaries.
• Obtain histories and perform physical examinations for new and establish adult and pediatric patients.
• Compound epidural for pregnant women in labor.
• Excel at maintaining medical records within the EMR.
• Utilize multiple inpatient and outpatient EMR and PACS systems.
• Order and review radiographs, MRI's and electromyographies.
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