NEW Emergency Response Protocol

You are doing your rounds and find a client who is unresponsive. What is the first thing you do?

Ask another ACW for support

Give the client Naloxone

Radio to alert to a medical emergency

Begin CPR

What is the 2nd thing you do once you have found an unresponsive client?

The AED should be brough to every medical emergency?

True

False

When you call a medical emergency on the radio what do you need to make a note of?

The client's colour

The client's location

The time

What the client is wearing

You call EMS if you are not joined by the on shift medical staff after 5 minutes of the initial medical Emergency radio call.

True

False

After how many minutes after the initial Medical Emergency is called do you call 911 if no medical staff support has arrived yet?

2 minutes

3 minutes

4 minutes

5 minutes

If it has now been 5 minutes since the initial medical emergency was called and the client is not responsive - what do you do?

Call 911

Reassess vitals

Start CPR

Give another dose of Naloxone

Once di medical staff are attending to the client - who will make the decision about weather or not to call 911?

A dose of Naloxone should be given every........ minutes

The Medical staff may decide to call 911 based off of any of the following criteria:

Heart rate <10

No Spontaneous Respirations

Unresponsive to Stimuli

Client is not responding after 5+ doses of Naloxone

If a client recovers and is able to stand and walk away - then you do not need to call 911

True

False

If staff does not end up calling 911 does a log and incident report still need to be written?

Yes

If you administer Naloxone you need to call 911.

Yes

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