Emergency Health Services

The EHS system is a complex combination of various providers and facilities that provide three basic medical functions which includes:

• evacuation

• stabilization

• redistribution

• assistance

an example of

a commonly used triage system specifically designed

to abstract caller information through a question-driven

protocol and direct appropriate resources based on that

information

• Medical

  Priority Dispatch System

• Emergency Department

• Emergency Medical Services

• Advanced Life Support

a type of provider in which they can perform intubation, needle thoracostomy and defibrillation

• BLS Provider

• ALS Provider

• Emergency Medical Technician

• Registered Nurse

a type of provider during response that can provide immobilization, and

bleeding control

• BLS Provider

• ALS Provider

• Advanced Nurse Practitioner

• Registered Nurse

pre exisistng healthcare facilitIes that can be activated in the event of a disaster to provide emergency

• Satellite ED

• Physician Office

• Urgent Care

• Outpatient Department

What are the components of EHS?

• EMS

• ED

• Alternate Resource of Emergency Care

• Critical Care Unit

a process to help prevent a sick or injured person from having their medical condition deteriorate further too quickly before they can be treated in depth at a medical facility.

• Redistribution

• Evacuation

• Stabilization

• Management

is appropriate when conditions inside a structure pose a threat to the health and safety of building occupants and leaving the facility is safer than remaining inside of it.

• Redistribution

• Evacuation

• Stabilization

• Management

is appropriate when conditions inside a structure pose a threat to the health and safety of building occupants and leaving the facility is safer than remaining inside of it.

• Redistribution

• Evacuation

• Stabilization

• Management

occurs when 'patients in the ED requiring inpatient care are unable to gain access to appropriate hospital beds within a reasonable time frame'

• Exit Block

• Entry Block

• Entrance Block

• Door Block