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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