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26 November 2025
- 18:3518:35, 26 November 2025 Ceftriaxone (hist | edit) [992 bytes] Treloars (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Section 8 - MEDICATION GUIDELINES== ===ANTIBIOTIC=== ====CEFTRIAXONE / ROCEPHIN==== '''DESCRIPTION / ACTION:''' * Ceftriaxone is a third generation cephalosporin antibiotic that is used to treat bacterial infections * Ceftriaxone is used as the treatment for bacterial infections and is often used pre-operatively to reduce the risk of surgical infections '''INDICATIONS:''' * Open extremity fracture * Penetrating trauma to the torso '''CONTRAINDICATIONS:''' * Allergy to...")
14 May 2025
- 18:2918:29, 14 May 2025 Memo - Stroke Alerts (hist | edit) [1,027 bytes] Treloars (talk | contribs) (Created page with "May 12, 2025 '''Stroke Alerts''' Please be advised of a change in stroke alert policy. All stroke alerts should be taken to the nearest (by time of transport) comprehensive stroke center This new directive took into account multiple considerations. Although we have made great improvement in attempting to determine the severity of patients with stroke by examination in the field, we recognize that such a determination is still not exact. We also recognize that stroke...")
7 May 2025
- 15:2515:25, 7 May 2025 Tetracaine (hist | edit) [24 bytes] Treloars (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Ponticaine) Tag: New redirect
16 April 2025
- 18:1818:18, 16 April 2025 Memo - Medical Clearance (hist | edit) [4,027 bytes] Treloars (talk | contribs) (Created page with "March 31, 2025 '''Medical Clearance''' We are receiving more calls from law enforcement to check a patient prior to being transported by law enforcement under a Baker Act. We have had a couple of problems and there will be more if we are not more careful. First, there is no such thing as a "vitals check". You must touch that person to do vitals therefore that person is a patient. You will be writing a thorough run report. That includes history, observations, physic...") Tag: Visual edit
- 18:1518:15, 16 April 2025 Memo - Patient Assists (hist | edit) [1,271 bytes] Treloars (talk | contribs) (Created page with "March 31, 2025 '''Patient Assists''' We need to clarify what we should be doing when called to "assist" a patient. "You observe people, you touch patients." This is the only way to delineate who's who. The old term "lift assist" found us trying to determine if that's all they needed, or more. How did this happen? How did they end up on the floor? How have they been feeling? What are the other medical issues? OPQRST. Do they have any fractures/dislocations? Do...") Tag: Visual edit
- 15:5615:56, 16 April 2025 Memo - Face to face Medical Director meetings (hist | edit) [1,594 bytes] Treloars (talk | contribs) (Created page with "MEMORANDUM March 31, 2025 The medical director team and I believe strongly in face-to-face medical director meetings in small groups. It is an important piece of a successful, high-quality EMS system. It has been proven over decades. I don't think everyone embraces it and has importance. It's just a chore or another requirement. It's not always convenient. Knowing your feelings we decided to change a few things. We are no longer going to have 630 p.m. meetings that in...")
