What is an echo level response?
What is an echo level response?
ECHO-level: Closest apparatus of any kind HOT, ALS responders HOT (allows the system to implement reasonable use of non-standard EMS responders such as police officers or fire department units) DELTA-level: Maximal response (both basic and advanced life support providers)
What is a 9 echo?
Protocol 9: Cardiac or Respiratory Arrest/Death. 9-E-1 Not breathing at all. 9-E-2 Uncertain Breathing.
Who developed priority dispatch?
Dr. Jeff J. Clawson
Priority dispatching took an amazing leap in 1978 when Dr. Jeff J. Clawson issued his first Medical Protocol for use in telephone patient triage. His system provided protocols for prioritizing responses of emergency vehicles and personnel.
What are the four priority symptoms in EMD?
“Any true or actual medical emergency, as it worsens, will result in one or more of 4 basic priority symptoms: chest pain; difficulty breathing; change in level of consciousness; serious hemorrhage … in all cases, no exceptions.” The EMD’s job is to interrogate about the presence or absence of priority symptoms.
What does echo mean in EMS?
CHARLIE = ALS & BLS response, no lights and siren (depending) DELTA = Priority ALS & BLS response, serious injury / medical. ECHO = ALS & BLS response for life status questionable (Full cardiac arrests, traumatic arrests)
What is a Charlie call?
THREATCON CHARLIE: (Threat level high) This condition applies when an incident occurs or intelligence is received indicating some form of terrorist action against personnel and facilities is imminent.
What is a Charlie level call?
Charlie Response–Potentially life threatening. All units respond emergency. Delta Response–Life threatening. All units respond emergency. Echo Response–Circling the drain.
What does Bravo mean EMS?
BRAVO = Lights and siren response for a BLS ambulance.
What is a Delta response?
A Delta priority response is identified as ‘patients, other than cardiac or respiratory arrest (Echo), with significant airway, breathing or. circulation symptoms, a significant mechanism of injury or a time critical intervention required’.
What is an alpha response?
Alpha Response–Non-life threatening, low priority. All units respond non-emergency.
What is code Charlie at a hospital?
ALPHA- and BRAVO-level responses usually require only a BLS level of care, with BRAVO being more urgent. CHARLIE- and DELTA-level resources usually require an ALS level of care, with DELTA being more urgent.