Dane County  
Minutes - Final Unless Amended by  
Committee  
Emergency Medical Services - Medical Advisory Subcommittee  
Consider:  
Who benefits? Who is burdened?  
Who does not have a voice at the table?  
How can policymakers mitigate unintended consequences?  
Monday, November 14, 2022  
12:00 PM  
Virtual Zoom Meeting: See top of agenda for  
instructions on how to join the webinar or call in  
by phone.  
Interpreters must be requested in advance; please see the bottom of the agenda for more information.  
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The November 14th Medical Advisory Subcommittee is being held virtually. The public can access the  
meeting with the Zoom application or by telephone.  
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meeting.  
A. Call To Order  
The meeting was called to order at 12:05pm.  
10 -  
Present  
KACEY KRONENFELD, STEPHANIE LEHMANN, MEL PEARLMAN, LISA  
SCHIMELPFENIG, TINA STRANDLIE, DAN WILLIAMS, MEGAN GUSSICK,  
ABIGAIL DAHLBERG, ERIC LANG, and BRANDON RYAN  
2 - MIKE LOHMEIER, and JEFF VANBENDAGOM  
Excused  
Absent  
16 -  
SCOTT ALLAIN, SHERRY CASALI, DREW DEAN, KRISTEN DRAGER, TERESA  
FIEDT, PAUL HICK, MIKE MANCERA, ERIN POLKINGHORN, JEFF POTHOF,  
DAVID PENA, CORY HROMOTKO, DR JOHN AGUILAR, GREG BAILEY,  
AURORA LYBEK, JOSH ROSS, and MARTHA AUGUSTINE  
Additional members present: Colton Ritchie, Daniel Sefcik  
Guests: Liza Tatar, Michael Spigner, Patrick Anderson, Chris Hammes, Chris Carbon,  
Chris Dennis, Jeremy McMullen  
Staff: Carrie Meier, Zander Johnston, Eric Anderson, Courtney Morency  
B. Consideration of Minutes  
MEDICAL ADVISORY SUBCOMMITTEE SEPTEMBER 2022 MINUTES  
2022  
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Attachments: September Minutes  
The minutes were approved.  
C. Discussion Items  
Meriter EMS Liaison Introduction  
Daniel Sefcik has been the Meriter EMS Liaison for about a month and a half. He  
encourages anyone with questions to feel free to reach out. Welcome Danny!  
EKG Transmissions to Hospitals  
Hospitals are currently using Lifenet to receive 12-lead EKG transmissions. The 5 year  
contract with the vendor is coming to an end in about a year. Meier would like to start  
having conversations with the hospitals about looking at all possible options that are  
most cost effective and that works with all the defibrillators being used in the county. The  
goal is to keep the vendor the same among all the hospitals as has been done in the  
past.  
OB Emergency Communications Update  
Previous conversations expressed concern about the criticality of an emergency OB  
patient not being effectively communicated to OB triage through the Meriter ED. Internal  
meetings at Meriter concluded that the current process works and the couple of cases  
that had issues were anomalies. Patrick Anderson asks that the conversation continues  
at the hospital as that type of situation has happened on more than one occasion.  
Cardiac Care Symposium  
DCEMS and Dane County Medical Advisors are planning a training event to discuss  
cardiac care. It will include case summaries, history of cardiac care in Dane County, and  
how to continue to improve patient care. CEUs will be available to attendees, and is  
scheduled for February 1st. Meier asks for ideas from members on a location for the  
training.  
Bariatric Patient Care  
DCEMS's new R30 was deployed for its first bariatric call last week. It was in a  
community outside of Dane County - thank you to Madison Fire for volunteering staff to  
take R30 to the patient. The only issue during the deployment was that the hospital cot  
could not go as low as the bariatric cot in the rig; this posed a safety risk for EMS in  
having to lift the cot high enough to transfer the patient. Meier will follow up with hospital  
liaisons to figure out how address this issue going forward. Meier encourages agencies to  
reach out to DCEMS office to schedule training for their staff on how to use the lift.  
D. Presentations  
E. Reports to Committee  
Meriter has seen increase in boarding patients in ED; providers cannot go through front  
door of the downtown UW hospital; St. Mary's hospital has additional security points that  
make it more difficult for personnel to get out without an escort.  
F. Future Meeting Items and Dates  
Next meeting January 9th.  
G. Public Comment on Items not on the Agenda  
Williams reports that SCRTAC has laminated copies of trauma field guidance available  
to be distributed to agencies. There is also the upcoming SCRTAC Conference on  
December 1st at American Family. CEUs will be available.  
H. Such Other Business as Allowed by Law  
I. Adjourn  
The meeting was adjourned 12:52pm.  
Minutes respectfully submitted by Courtney Morency.