Evacuation Policy
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The following provides standards for evacuation and EMS services.
Organizational Evacuation
- Food poisoning
- Snake bite, not poisonous
- Asthma attack with inhaler available
- Specific broken bones (see list below of EMS Activated Breaks)
- Cut requiring sutures but not uncontrolled bleeding
- Hypo/hyperglycemic episode with no loss of consciousness
- Oral injury: tooth knocked out, broken tooth
- Mild hypothermia
- Dislocations, except hips
EMS Activation
- Head, neck, back injuries
- Seizure
- Snake bite (poisonous)
- Severe asthma attack, (no inhaler or no improvement with inhaler)
- Chest trauma
- Uncontrolled bleeding
- Broken femur, pelvis, spine
- Severe burns to face, hands, genitals, airway; 2nd to 3rd degree burns greater than 1-5% of body surface area
- Lightning strike
- Anaphylaxis if EPI administered
- Chest pain or other symptomatic cardiac events that don’t subside
- Symptomatic, severe abdominal pain
- Stroke
- Heat stroke
- Labor (childbirth)
- Hip dislocation
- Altered consciousness, or unconscious patient
- Serious head/spinal injury with appropriate mechanism of injury
- Visible shock or shock-related problems
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