PPT Slide
Accident Scene Management
8.0 Preparing for Ambulance
- Have people watch for/direct ambulance
- Identify yourself as person in charge, and as
contact for anything they need done.
- Be sure you:
- Provide ambulance parking space
- Let EMTs know who’s in charge
- Give factual account of accident
- Provide all documentation on victim
- Provide honest evaluation of drug/alcohol use
- Let EMTs know of any leaking fluids which may
have contacted victim
- Stay back and out of way if told so
- Give EMTs time and space to work
- Send helmet along in ambulance