Emergency Medical Dispatch Flashcards
What tool can EMD’s use when dealing with emotional/hysterical callers
Repetitive Persistence
Why use the EMDPRS
Provides interrogation questions designed to help figure out what is happening medically
What does the EMD need to consider when using medical intrustions?
Determine when it is possible for instruction? Determine when it is appropriate for instruction?
What do EMD’s use to get information from callers?
The “Initial Survey” or “All-Caller Interrogations”?
Through further interrogation, the EMD is able to?
Identifies conditions requiring pre-arrival instructions
Why are EMD’s so important?
Able to initiate telephone CPR within the first 2 minutes
What is considered to be good telephone instruction?
Deliver instructions in a calm and reassuring manner
Name a good communication skill
Willing to give assistance
Name a good housekeeping hint
Follow protocols “word-for-word”