Ems for Secure Facilities

Description

EMS FOR SECURE FACILITIES provides a unique perspective into the world of secure facilities by providing readers with various techniques for emergency medical response. Providing emergency medical services in a secure setting presents unique security needs and liability issues, and this book equips your students with the essential information to do so successfully. After reading EMS For Secure Facilities, readers will be able to safely secure a scene in a prison or secure facility and to provide initial care until qualified EMS personnel arrive on scene. This book is a must for your learners who aspire to work or who are already employed by a correctional facility, county jail, holding area at a police department, or other similar environment.

Features

• Focuses specifically on the challenges of the secure facility and the steps required of correctional officers and employees for incident management and response.
• Addresses the most common offender medical and trauma experiences faced daily by correctional employees.
• Highlights important safety information including securing a safe scene, proper BSI and safety tips for various response situations.
• Demonstrates proper response procedures for initial care in a medical emergency with step-by-step photos and illustrations.
• Offers practice scenarios to help students master critical response skills.
• Follows the American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR.

Table of Contents

UNIT I: SAFETY ISSUES.
Objectives. Introduction. Scene Safety. Assessing a Victim. Transporting a Victim from a Secure Facility. Blood and Airborne Pathogens. Disease Transmission. Immunizations.
Federal Health Regulations.
UNIT II: INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM WITHIN A SECURED FACILITY.
Objectives. Introduction. National Incident Management System (NIMS).
Before NIMS. ICS in a Secured Facility. Four Modes of ICS. Five Sections of ICS.
Expanding ICS.
UNIT III: VICTIM ASSESSMENT IN A SECURED FACILITY.
Objectives. Introduction. Steps for Victim Assessment. Deformities, Open Wounds, Tenderness, and Swelling (DOTS). Vital Signs.
UNIT IV: FOREIGN BODY AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION.
Objectives. Introduction. Respiratory Failure. Foreign Body Airway Obstruction: Adult/Child/Infant.
UNIT V: CARDIAC ARREST.
Objectives. Introduction. CPR in a Secured Facility. Cardiac Arrest: CPR for Offender in Cell. One-Rescuer CPR: Child, Ages 1-8 (1-14 if Health Care Provider Certified). One-Rescuer CPR: Infant, Ages Newborn to 1 Year Old. Two-Rescuer CPR. Witnessed Cardiac Arrest with AED on Scene. Un-witnessed Cardiac Arrest with AED on Scene.
UNIT VI: MEDICAL EMERGENCIES.
Objectives. Introduction. Assessment of Medical Emergencies. Allergies: Mild or Systemic Reaction. Asthma. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Congestive Heart Failure. Chemical Irritants. Cold Emergencies. Diabetes. Heat Emergencies. Heart Attack. Hyperventilation. Internal Bleeding. Seizures. Stroke. Shock. Conductive Energy Devices. Medical Emergency: Unresponsive Offender. Scenarios.
UNIT VII: TRAUMA.
Objectives. Introduction. Scene Safety. Activating Incident Command System (ICS).
Body Substance Isolation (BSI). Mechanism of Injury. Trauma Survey. Contacting Health Services. Assault/Fights. External Bleeding. Blunt Trauma. Chest Injuries. Dislocations.
Eye Injuries. Fractures. Sprains and Strains. Head Injuries. Gunshot Wounds. Knife, Shanks, Other Improvised or Edged Weapons. Impaled Objects. Spinal Injuries.
Scenarios.
UNIT VIII: BANDAGING AND IMMOBILIZATION.
Objectives. Closed Wounds. Open Wounds. Bandage Materials. Spinal Stabilization.
Scenarios.
UNIT IX: DRUG REACTIONS.
Objectives. Introduction. Upper Drugs/Chemicals. Downer Drugs/Chemicals. Sideways Drugs/Chemicals.
UNIT X: BEHAVIORAL/MENTAL ILLNESS EMERGENCIES.
Objectives. Introduction. Scene Safety/BSI. Types of Behavioral Emergencies.
Common Medications. Scenario.
UNIT XI: TRANSPORTATION CONSIDERATIONS.
Objectives. Introduction. Scene Safety. Health Services. Emergency Transportation.
Non-emergency Transportation.

About the Author

Joseph A. Grafft is currently a Community Faculty member at Metropolitan State University, School of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, a position he has held since 1995. He also coordinates the instruction for the Minnesota Department of Corrections, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), various industrial locations and is licensed by the Minnesota EMS Regulatory Board to deliver EMT-Recertification, EMR Initial and refresher training. Mr. Grafft began his EMS career in 1965 working in an ambulance while going to college. Mr. Grafft left teaching in the high school in 1988 and became the EMS Director at a hospital Paramedic system. In 1990 he became the first EMS Manager for the Minnesota State Board of Vocational Education – Fire Center, which later became the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities – Fire/EMS/Safety Center – Chancellors Office. He retired from this position in 2005. Joseph A. Grafft is the Past-President of the National Association of EMS Educators (NAEMSE), International Rescue and Emergency Care Association, and Minnesota Ambulance Association; Past Chair of the AHA-ECC Committee in Minnesota; author of the Issues in Spinal Care Course; Secretary of Advocates of EMS; Current Treasurer of the National Association of EMS Educators, and conference presenter. He has taught the San Diego Border Patrol in Basic and Advanced Wilderness Medicine and is a Nationally Certified Instructor for NAEMSE.

Ricard Sarff holds 30+ years experience as a correctional officer in the Minnesota Department of Corrections – St. Cloud. As an officer he supervised offenders and was involved in managing and training staff within the correctional facility. Certified as an Instructor/Instructor Trainer by the Department of Corrections, he trained fellow staff in hand cuffing, hand-to-hand combat, riot control, entry procedures, cell extractions and OSHA requirements for blood-borne pathogens. Mr. Sarff also achieved instructor certifications from the Red Cross and American Heart Association.