Discover Tips and Tricks for Your Emergency Room Visit at May Virtual PACE Talk
This month, the Northumberland PACE Talk series will continue for the 2021-22 season with ER 101 for Patients and Families: Tips and Tricks for Your Emergency Room Visit. Led by Dr. Paul Ketov, Chief of the Emergency Department and Acute Services at Northumberland Hills Hospital (NHH), this talk will take place via Zoom on Wednesday, May 25 at 5:30 PM.
Dr. Ketov is passionate about patient education and community outreach, as he truly believes that collaborative communication with patients is a fundamental part of healthcare. Through this PACE Talk, he aims to provide insight into the experience of visiting the Emergency Department, including different roles of the healthcare and allied health professionals who patients and caregivers might encounter. He will provide a glimpse into triage, investigations, discharge, and follow-up processes, will touch on wait times, and highlight how his team is working on improving the patient experience. Attendees will walk away with both tips to help make a visit to the Emergency Department smoother and more efficient, and with recommendations for how to effectively collaborate with primary care providers, specialists, and community pharmacists after a visit.
In addition to being the current Chief of Emergency Department and Acute Services at NHH, Dr. Ketov is a recipient of several NHH Foundation Gifts of Gratitude as well as an NHH Healing Hands Award. In recent years, he has been heavily involved as one of the leaders in establishing local COVID-19 protocols, as they relate to Acute Care, and integrating the new Epic clinical information system within the Emergency Department. He is an Adjunct Professor at Queens University and is passionate about clinical education, bedside teaching, and evidence-based Emergency Medicine. He is an organizer as well as an occasional speaker for internal Clinical Education and Rounds series colloquially known as Fireside Chats.
As is standard within the PACE Talk format, questions from the audience will be addressed, and these can be pre-submitted by emailing mbhargava@imcare.ca prior to May 24, 2022.
Beginning in 2018, The Northumberland PACE talks have been hosted as free public education sessions on a broad range of health and wellness topics and have consistently drawn large groups of community members with a range of questions and perspectives. Like many other events, The Northumberland PACE Talk series adapted to a new, virtual format as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bring your questions, your suggestions, and your experience and join in what is expected to be another informative discussion.
Pre-registration is required and space is limited to the first 300 registered attendees. This event will be hosted through Zoom, and attendees are asked to login to the event 5 minutes prior to the start. Register for ER 101 for Patients and Families: Tips and Tricks for Your Emergency Room Visit today at www.pacetalks.com, where you’ll also find video and highlights from many of the previous seasons’ talks. For those unable to attend, efforts will be made to share a recording of this conversation following the event, technology permitting.