Rules for Documenting If it wasn’t documented, you didn’t do it, and if you didn’t do it, don’t document it. Be accurate and complete, precise and comprehensive Be objective, don’t…
Documentation Documentation: the process of recording patient information Proper documentation includes: Record of the scene Patient’s CC Patient’s condition Nature and extent of emergency care given Changes in the patient’s…
Oral Report - description of the case given by the EMT to medical direction or receiving hospital. Standard format: ID# and level of training of provider Description of scene Patient’s…
Types of Communication Simplex: one direction at a time, pro: finish your message without interruption Duplex: 2 separate frequencies are paired. Simultaneous transmission and reception Multiplex: transmits simultaneously 2 or…
Communications The EMS Team communicates via written, electronic and verbal means with: Callers and dispatch center Among the EMTs Back up units Emergency Department EMS System Admin Public safety units…