Agitated and combative patients guideline
State of Wisconsin
Emergency Medical Services
Sample Policy
|Destination Determination |
Purpose:
It is the purpose of this policy to provide guidelines for determining the appropriate transport destination for every patient.
Procedure:
Patient should be transported to the closest most appropriate hospital.
Appropriateness is determined by:
• Patient preference[1]
• Specialty needs of the patient (pediatric, trauma, cardiac, etc.) and hospital’s capacity to meet these needs
• Medical direction
• Hospital diversion status
• Patients medical home
• Weather
Considerations to modify for local use:
*restrictions due to coverage of the area
*restrictions due to distance to the hospital
*Other reasons for restricting destinations
*STEMI- Approved STEMI treatment center if applicable
*TRAUMA- Highest Level Trauma Center Available
*STROKE- Approved STROKE treatment Center if applicable
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[1] Wisconsin law gives the patient the right to make the ultimate decision on hospital destination as long as it is operationally available to the EMS service (a hospital the service would normally be allowed to transport to, that is not on diversion). If patient assessment dictates the patient should go to a different hospital than their original choice, but the patient is able to make decisions and wants to go another facility, attempt to quickly educate the patient regarding the reasons to go to the alternate facility. Transport per patient final request.
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