They also report 3 people have escaped from the fire but are injured. Come hear the latest opinions and actual legal cases that shape the care we provided our patients and what our legal, moral, and ethical obligations are. As EMS professionals, we respond to various injuries everyday as a part of jobs. However, not much consideration is put into the prevention of these injuries to our patients and ourselves. This lecture will contain concepts and tricks the provider can learn to prevent injury.
Medical patients die acutely for many reasons.
With the assistance of case studies, the student will learn how to quickly assess and initiate treatment of these difficult patients. This presentation will outline the Unified Command Concept, and use case studies to illustrate the lessons learned from operations with the New Castle County Emergency Medical Service and Wilmington Fire Department. Effective communications, provider safety, and the foundations for mutual respect will be covered during this incident management session. The medical literature is the gold standard of what interventions are proven to be of benefit to patients. So much of what we do in EMS has emerged as a result of trial and error and unscientific implementation.