Rural Health Systems - Rural Emergency Medical Services

OBJECTIVES

1. Be able to assess the current EMS system and understand the value of community teamwork and the physician advisor in this process.
2. Be able to access resources as the EMS system changes (i.e. loss of volunteer, different training needs)

TEACHING STRATEGIES

Have residents attend a local EMS volunteer organization continuing education meeting:

• Note the importance of community involvement
• Note the medical directors role
• Note funding and stability/instability
• Note how rural EMS addresses decreasing volunteerism

Interview with an EMS volunteer

QUINCY FAMILY PRACTICE CENTER PERSPECTIVES

If a man's leg is caught in an auger, how do you get it out? If a man is overcome by fumes of a silo, how do you get him out without endangering the EMS personnel? Hopefully, you will never be called to be first on the scent but you might be an advisor to the rural volunteer ambulance personnel or called in when they have exhaused their expertise.

Three books are essential.

1. Rural Rescue and Emergency Care
2. Farm Accident Rescue
3. First on the Scene

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