Consults

Consultation Services

General Guidelines:

  • Consult contacts are available on the Smart Web and click on “On-Call” tab.
  • When admitting to subspecialty services, attending/fellow is responsible to notifying the admitting resident to discuss plan for admission (not ED staff).
  • There will often be multiple contacts for certain specialties (page the attending if resident or fellow is not listed):
    • Page the resident for the following services:
      • ENT
      • Neurosurgery
      • Orthopedics
      • Surgery
    • Page the fellow for the following services:
      • Allergy
      • Cardiology
      • Child psychiatry
      • Gastroenterology
      • Infectious Disease
      • Neonatology
      • Neurology
      • Plastics
    • Page the nurse/nurse practitioner for the following services:
      • Baclofen pump issues
      • Heart transplant (coordinator)
      • Peritoneal dialysis
    • Page the attending for the following services:
      • Child Abuse
      • CVICU
      • Endocrinology (sometimes will be fellow but listed as attending)
      • Hem/Onc (sometimes will be fellow but listed as attending)
      • Nephrology
      • PICU (sometimes will be fellow but listed as attending)
      • Rheumatology (sometimes will be fellow but listed as attending)
    • Special situations:
      • Airway foreign body
      • GI foreign body
      • Face – will have service listed covering at that time.
      • IR on-call team
      • GI magnet ingestions – consult surgery
      • Short gut patients with a CVL and fever – admitted to surgery
      • After hours on-call radiology resident (for CT prelim reads):
        • 83129 or page “UAB Radiology 2nd call” via UAB Radio Paging Tab on SmartWeb
        • On Tuesdays and Saturdays, Brookwood radiology residents are on call, call CT and ask them for on-call radiology resident.
      • Ophtho – call Callahan ER (205) 325-8100 and ask desk to have ophtho resident call you back.

Disclaimer: These clinical pathways are intended to be a guide specifically for residents, fellows, CRNPs, and physicians (“practitioners”) at Children’s of Alabama (“COA”). These clinical pathways may be adapted for each patient depending on clinical scenarios based on the practitioner’s judgment, consideration of unique circumstances, needs of the patient and their respective family, and availability of resources of where the patient is located. These clinical pathways are not to be construed as medical advice or treatment. COA does not represent or warrant that the clinical pathways are in every respect accurate or complete, or that one of more of them apply to a particular patient or medical condition. COA is not responsible for any errors or omissions in the clinical pathways, or for any outcomes a patient might experience where a clinician consulted one or more such pathways in connection with providing care for that patient.