216 - Aided Cases Flashcards
When UMOS responds to an aided and if aided is wearing a medic alert emblem, notify
Radio dispatcher and bring to the attention of ambulance attendant. Do not remove emblem.
UMOS will make a second call in ________ if ambulance does not arrive.
20 min
What is considered an unidentified person?
Subject of an aided or collision case and
- unable to ID self or cannot be determined
- unable to make notification if admitted to hospital or child to shelter
- under 18 and refuses to ID self or give address
- DOA and ID unknown or notification cannot be made
At the arrival of a dead human body scene, UMOS request
Ambulance and patrol supervisor.
Ascertain facts and notify desk ASAP.
If pronouncement of death is questioned by anyone, request aided be removed to hospital or that a doctor be dispatched.
At the arrival of a dead human body scene, if death is suspicious UMOS will
Obtain names of witnesses and detain at scene.
During a dead human body job, desk officer will always notify
PDU and Medical examiner (inform if plastic sheet or bag may be a factor in death). If ME fails to respond within 1 hr, make follow up call.
Desk officer will notify harbor if aided is removed from navigable waters by other than harbor.
Operations unit if apparent homicide, suicide or death is suspicious.
Communications section if death is unusual or homicide.
When can the desk officer close a DOA complaint at precinct level?
Deceased is properly identified, medical examiner certifies death as natural and relatives are present and notified.
In a mental health removal order, desk officer will contact operations if psychiatrist
Does not contact command or respond within one hour.
For a mental health removal order, the desk officer will have communications section assign _________to execute order.
R.E.P.
R - RMP
E - ESU
P - patrol supervisor
In a mental health removal order, if patient will not cooperate and refuses to go to hospital voluntarily, patrol supervisor will request
CO/Duty Captain
When an aided required oxygen, UMOS will notify
ESU
The desk officer will notify __________ in poisoned OT infected food cases or in wood or denatured alcohol poisoning cases.
Operations unit
If a person treated at a hospital for apparent poisoning, if sample is available, the sample will be taken to _______ with ___________ attached.
Department of health labs with a Request for lab
When a pattern emerges concerning several separate incident of suspected food poisoning that occurred under similar circumstances, UMOS will notify ____________ and comply with instructions received.
Poison control center
Who notifies department of health and mental hygiene of an animal that has bitten, scratched, or abraded a human being and/or of human exposure to a rabid animal or of an animal suspected of being rabid.
Desk officer
Snake bites require a notification to ________________ and entered on the aided report.
Poison control center of the department of health.
Upon responding to an incident in which a taxicab is involved and it is apparent that the taxi driver has epilepsy, vertigo, heart disease or other condition making him/her unfit to operate a taxi, UMOS will
- follow normal aided procedures
- obtain driver’s credentials and give receipt for credentials
- forward credentials and facts in report of violation to NYC TLC.
In an auxiliary line of duty injury or death, desk officer will notify
Operations unit and supervisor at APS.
Investigating supervisor in a line of duty injury or death of an APO will prepare report on
Typed letterhead or unusual occurrence report.
Auxiliary police coordinator precinct of occurrence will ensure all reports are forwarded to APS within 10 days.
Desk officer will make the following notifications for aided:
Aided is killed/injured on MTA bus ______
Aided is killed/injured on scaffold ________
Aided is killed/injured at construction site, parks department property, or in a factory or store ________.
- NYC Transit
- Department of buildings
- Operations unit
When notified by DOC of a suspicious death or suicide at a department of corrections facility, desk officer will notify:
- PDU
- CO/Duty Captain
- Patrol Borough
- IAB - log number
- Operations unit
When responding to an incident involving a child falling from a window, UMOS will
- follow aided procedure
- prepare Dept of health form, Child window fall report and immediately fax to Dept of health.
- mail it to them
If there are deficiencies/missing equipment in the AED kit, UMOS will notify
Desk officer and Make appropriate activity log entries.
How long do you have to wait to administer 2nd dose of naloxone if individual has not responded to first dose?
3-5 minutes
