EMS Operations FISDAP
2023
1. Lifting Techniques: Keep back straight/upright
Legs shoulder width apart
Head upright/facing forward
Bend at waist/knees
Lift with legs
2. Certifying Agencies: NREMT- Certification
Medical Director sign off
3. Standard of Care: Describes what a reasonable paramedic with training would do in the
same or similar situation
4. Negligence: Doesn't meet standard of care, doing less or more than the person was
trained to do, failure to act appropriately was the cause of injury and harm resulted
5. Assault: Provider instills fear of immediate bodily harm or breach of bodily security
Such as threatening to restrain patient
6. Battery: Provider touches another person in harmful or offensive way without consent
7. False Imprisonment: Patient is detained against their will
8. Language Barriers: Best to use qualified interpreter
Minors aren't good interpreters
Call dispatch for interpreters
Can use family members
9. Incident Commander: Establishes strategic objectives and priorities and deploys
response plan to manage incident Usually most senior personnel on scene
10. Operations Section: Manages tactical operations including triage, treatment, and
transport of patients Mostly for paramedics
11. Logistics Section: Has responsibility for communications equipment, facilities, food and
water, fuel, lighting, medical equipment and supplies for patients and responders
12. Safety Officer: Monitors scene for conditions or operations that may present a hazard to
responders and patients
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, 13. Liaison Officer: Relays information and concerns among command, general staff, and
other agencies
14. Triage Unit Leader: In charge of counting and prioritizing patients
15. Treatment Unit Leader: Locates and sets up the treatment area with a tier for each
priority patient
16. Transportation Unit Leader: Coordinates transportation and distribution of patients to
appropriate receiving hospitals, communicates with local hospitals to establish how many
patients they can take
17. Staging Area Manager: Locates an area to stage equipment and responders, tracks unit
arrivals and sends out vehicles as needed
18. Extrication Task Force Leader/Rescue Task Force Leader: Determines the type of
equipment and resources needed for the situation
19. EMS Roles in and MCI: Triage
Treatment
Transport
20. Red Triage Tag: Airway and breathing difficulties
Uncontrolled or severe bleeding
Severe medical conditions
Decreased mental status
Signs of shock
Severe burns
Open chest or abdominal injuries
21. Yellow Triage Tag: Burns without airway compromise
Major or multiple bone or joint injuries
Back injuries with or without spinal cord damage
22. Green Triage Tag: Minor fractures
Minor soft tissue injuries
23. Black Triage Tag: Obvious death
Obviously nonsurvivable injury
Respiratory arrest
Cardiac arrest
24. START Triage Step 1: Call out "If you can hear my voice and are able to walk to..."
Those who walk are minimal priority
25. START Triage Step 2: Move to nonambulatory patients and assess respiratory status
If not breathing- open airway and if doesn't start breathing tag them black
If patient begins to breathe- tag as red
26. START Triage Step 3: If patient is breathing count RR
>30 is red
<30 move onto next assessment
27. START Triage Step 4: Assess circulation Check radial pulse
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2023
1. Lifting Techniques: Keep back straight/upright
Legs shoulder width apart
Head upright/facing forward
Bend at waist/knees
Lift with legs
2. Certifying Agencies: NREMT- Certification
Medical Director sign off
3. Standard of Care: Describes what a reasonable paramedic with training would do in the
same or similar situation
4. Negligence: Doesn't meet standard of care, doing less or more than the person was
trained to do, failure to act appropriately was the cause of injury and harm resulted
5. Assault: Provider instills fear of immediate bodily harm or breach of bodily security
Such as threatening to restrain patient
6. Battery: Provider touches another person in harmful or offensive way without consent
7. False Imprisonment: Patient is detained against their will
8. Language Barriers: Best to use qualified interpreter
Minors aren't good interpreters
Call dispatch for interpreters
Can use family members
9. Incident Commander: Establishes strategic objectives and priorities and deploys
response plan to manage incident Usually most senior personnel on scene
10. Operations Section: Manages tactical operations including triage, treatment, and
transport of patients Mostly for paramedics
11. Logistics Section: Has responsibility for communications equipment, facilities, food and
water, fuel, lighting, medical equipment and supplies for patients and responders
12. Safety Officer: Monitors scene for conditions or operations that may present a hazard to
responders and patients
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, 13. Liaison Officer: Relays information and concerns among command, general staff, and
other agencies
14. Triage Unit Leader: In charge of counting and prioritizing patients
15. Treatment Unit Leader: Locates and sets up the treatment area with a tier for each
priority patient
16. Transportation Unit Leader: Coordinates transportation and distribution of patients to
appropriate receiving hospitals, communicates with local hospitals to establish how many
patients they can take
17. Staging Area Manager: Locates an area to stage equipment and responders, tracks unit
arrivals and sends out vehicles as needed
18. Extrication Task Force Leader/Rescue Task Force Leader: Determines the type of
equipment and resources needed for the situation
19. EMS Roles in and MCI: Triage
Treatment
Transport
20. Red Triage Tag: Airway and breathing difficulties
Uncontrolled or severe bleeding
Severe medical conditions
Decreased mental status
Signs of shock
Severe burns
Open chest or abdominal injuries
21. Yellow Triage Tag: Burns without airway compromise
Major or multiple bone or joint injuries
Back injuries with or without spinal cord damage
22. Green Triage Tag: Minor fractures
Minor soft tissue injuries
23. Black Triage Tag: Obvious death
Obviously nonsurvivable injury
Respiratory arrest
Cardiac arrest
24. START Triage Step 1: Call out "If you can hear my voice and are able to walk to..."
Those who walk are minimal priority
25. START Triage Step 2: Move to nonambulatory patients and assess respiratory status
If not breathing- open airway and if doesn't start breathing tag them black
If patient begins to breathe- tag as red
26. START Triage Step 3: If patient is breathing count RR
>30 is red
<30 move onto next assessment
27. START Triage Step 4: Assess circulation Check radial pulse
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