Good morning. In the past, EMS has had some encounters with school nurses and school med techs after Epinephrine has been given (sometimes questionably) to a student with a presumed allergic reaction. I wanted to provide you with some (hopefully insighted and helpful) information from the head of the School Nursing Program that is employed […]
Washington County Public School Epi and Narcan protocol Read More »
MIEMSS frequently conducts QA/QI reviews at the state level. One of their recent trending research includes the effectiveness of pain management across both BLS and ALS treatment modalities. In their research, they pull very specific data from EMEDS reports – pain scores under the vitals sections. Our county is lacking in the consistent documentation of
EMEDS and Pain scores Read More »
TXA is an important therapy that will help increase patient’s survivability in an out of hospital hemorrhagic injury. ALS providers play a key role in knowing when to use TXA and how to properly administer the medication. A few of you have noticed the discrepancy in TXA administration in the protocol versus what we have
FW: TXA Administration – Jurisdictional Use of 50 ml Bag with 10 gtt sets Read More »
Today’s “Did You Know?” moment: There is one contraindication for Medevac Request: EMS/DNR-B or MOLST B patients are NOT candidates for field medevac transport. (page 280 of MD protocol, July 1, 2021 version) With that said, although these patients do not qualify for helicopter utilization, this doesn’t prevent the patient from ground transportation to a
Tuesday Training Notes – Aviation and MOLST Read More »
