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Policy 108 System Variance Reporting
What types of incidents are considered Any incident that results in a threat to public safety, patient, by-stander or responder
Level A? harm.
What is the maximum amount of time you Immediately (paperwork must be done within 24 hours)
must report a Level A variance?
Who must be notified ASAP for a Level A EMS Duty Chief
variance?
What types of incidents are considered Any incident that does not result in patient harm, but is a deviation from EMS Agency
Level B? policies, procedures, and protocols.
What is the maximum amount of time you 5 business days
must report a Level B variance?
What types of incidents are considered Incidents where the responders provided outstanding care and went above and
Level C variances? beyond the normal expectations of responders.
What is the maximum amount of time you 7 business days
must report a Level C variance?
What form would you use to to file a EMS Form #903
variance report?
Policy 109 Policy Development
How will policy implementation be Via program manager
disseminated to you?
What other resources do you have to find County Website, App, Social Media, Hardcopy
new policies and updates?
Policy 500 Electronic Patient Care Record (ePCR)
When an MCI alert occurs with 5 or more No
patients is a PCR required?
What is used instead of a PCR during an Triage Tags
MCI with 5 or more patients?
Policy 501 Hospital Radio Reports
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, For interfacility and routine patient Cellular Phone Communication
transports into the ED what form of
communication is used for ringdowns?
What channel can you use for major alert Designated Hospital Channel (each hospital has its own channel)
ringdowns on the county radio?
For what types of alerts can you use the Trauma Alerts, STEMI Alerts, Stroke Alerts, and transporting a critical patient (Code 3;
designated hospital ringdown channel? RLS)
What information is required when giving a Chemical name, decontamination methods (used on-scene), DOT reference #, any
DECON ALERT ringdown? appropriate treatment information/considerations, routine patient notification report.
Who should you ask to meet you in the ED Any appropriate representative. You must meet them in the bay because there could
bay? And why? be a likelihood of contamination in the ED. Further precautions are warranted.
Who can make base contact? Only Paramedics
What is the best form of communication? Cellular Phone Communication
What are the types of radio tones you Steady Alert Tones & Warbler Tones
would hear over the radio?
A Steady Alert Tone is used anytime the dispatcher needs to announce a priority
What is a Steady Alert Tone? message such as "All Points Broadcast" (APB); "Be on the Look Out" (BOLO); hospital
on "Internal Disaster; etc.
A Warbler Tone is a fast pace continuous "high-low-high" sound. When this alert is
What is a Warbler Tone? issued, all non-emergency traffic must stop until the broadcast is completed.
Signifies an eminent safety issue.
What does P.A.R. stand for? Personnel Accountability Report
Policy 502 Patient Consent and Refusal for EMS Services
Adults 18+, AOx4, Minors who are or were legally married, Minors on active duty,
Who is legally authorized to refuse care? Minors who are emancipated, & Minors who are pregnant and needs or seeks
medical attention in regards to their pregnancy.
An individual is not authorized to refuse Suicidal or on a 51/50 hold or similar hold.
care if they are:
Policy 600 Field Pronouncement of Death
Decapitation, Total Incineration, Decomposition (Putrefaction), Rigor Mortis, Livor
What are the obvious signs of death an
Mortis (Resting Lividity), pulseless with obvious separation of heart, brain, and/or
EMT can pronounce?
lungs, DNR (if pulseless + aepnic), and End of Life Option Act (if pulseless + aepnic)
Policy 601 Physician at Scene
If a physician arrives on scene, what do you Request Proper Identification; MD or DO (Medical License or Business Address)
do first?
What are three options a physician has Relinquishing Patient Care, Assisting in Patient Care, and Managing Patient Care.
when assisting in rendering aid while
responders are on scene?
Policy 602 911 EMS Patient Destination
If the requested facility meets the requirements of policy 602 and regardless of their
When can a patient be taken to a hospital
ability to pay. Patient may be assigned to a different facility in times EMS system
of their choice?
surge regardless of their preferences.
What may happen during a time of EMS Multiple Casualty Incident, Activation of County Routing, and States of Local
surge? Emergency.
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