Ambulance Safety
Information Covered:
- Risks and Responsibilities of Emergency Response
- Safety Issues During Transport
- All personnel and others riding in or on apparatus are properly seated and secured with safety belts.
- All patients are properly secured and all stretcher straps are appropriately in place and tightened.
- All equipment is appropriately secured
- Cab areas
- Rear of ambulances
- Compartments
- Consideration of use of lights and sirens
- Risk/benefit analysis
- status of patient interventions
- patient condition
- Audible warning devices
- asking for the right of way of others
- not to be used to clear traffic
- Risk/benefit analysis
- Transport with due regard
- High-risk situations
- Intersections
- Highway access
- Speeding
- Driver Distractions
- mobile computer
- global Positioning Systems
- using mobile radio
- operating visual and audible devices
- vehicle stereo
- wireless devices
- eating/drinking
- Inclement weather
- Aggressive drivers
- Unpaved roadways (see Federal Highway Administration definition)
- Driving alone
- Fatigue
- Safety Issues During Transport
Content Creator: Chris Hunt
CAPCE Course Number: 21-EMTP-F3-4309
NJ Course Number: 141123
Total CE Hours: 1
Level: Basic
EMT-CE uses the NEMSES guidelines as the foundation for every course outline.