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Local EMS Units To Have Pediatric Champions!

Local EMS Unit leaders and medical directors are encouraged to look closely at identifying a Pediatric Champion for their service. The State Expert Panel on Pediatric Preparedness has identified a need to have EMS units ready to respond to the pediatric population. First Responder as well as Ambulance Services should identify 1 or 2 personnel to look at pediatric issues and make recommendations to the service leadership of identified training and equipment needs.

WI Hospital Preparedness will pay for these individuals to receive a Basic or Advanced Pediatric Education for Prehospital Providers (PEPP) Course in the local area as well as compensation for their lost time at work.

To ensure available funding, services are asked to identify up to two people per service prior to December 1, 2006. The training must be completed prior to August 31, 2007.

More information is available on our website at www.lsrtac.com or by calling Dan Diamon @ 715-364-2858 – or by email at ddiamon@centurytel.net.

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Subject: FW: Message on State Expert Panel for Dispatchers

Hello!

Could you please print this out and give to the dispatchers or their bosses? I think it would be a huge benefit if someone could attend these sessions and have some input for our region. If travel and lodging are issues, you can contact Anne-Marie Gates at the State. Her number and email are at the end of the attached document. Do you know of other dispatchers or managers in our region to share this with? Please forward to anyone this may apply to. The first meeting is scheduled on Nov 8th at the Great Wolf Lodge in Wisconsin Dells. Thanks - Merrilee

Merrilee Carlson RN,MS
EMS Coordinator
Memorial Medical Center
1615 Maple Lane

State Expert Panel on Dispatch

The Situation

State statute mandates that Wisconsin maintain a working trauma system for the reduction of suffering, disability, death, and the overall cost associated with traumatic injury.

The trauma system within our state is activated for any traumatic or mass casualty incident, and public access to trauma and emergency pre-hospital EMS medical care is via the 911 system.

Guidelines are in place that determines the criteria for activating the local trauma system and, during a mass casualty event, the Wisconsin EMS Emergency Plan (WEEPP). Recent WEEPP tabletop exercises conducted around the state have shown that there is no standardized recognition of these criteria in place for the 911 telecommunicator and dispatcher for activation of the trauma system or coordination of pre-hospital air and ground transport providers and other mutual aid. Additionally, providing pre-arrival medical instruction to the 911 caller by the telecommunicator, if done at all, currently takes several different forms. The State Trauma Advisory Committee (STAC) recommends that this process be standardized, and that the telecommunicator or the telecommunicator’s 911 agency be certified for the issuance of pre-arrival instruction.

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