PROTOCOL – KY

Spinal Immob Device-Field Removal

  • Non-application rules
  • Age ≥12
  • Normal mental status
  • No signs of intoxication
  • GCS 15 & A & O x 4
  • No acute stress reaction
  • No distracting injuries
  • No communication barriers (deafness, language, etc.)
  • No neurological deficit
  • No mid-line spine pain/tenderness on palpation of spinous processes

Head Trauma

  • Monitor and maintain SpO2 >90%
  • If breathing is adequate, high flow O2 by NRB mask
  • Do not hyperventilate, EXCEPT for a) Fixed or asymmetric pupils; b) abnormal extension; c) GCS <9 with a further decrease of 2 or more points
  • Advanced airway management when needed

Eye and Dental Trauma

  • Stabilize impaled objects in place and cover both eyes
  • Cover puncture wound with protective devices over both eyes
  • Irrigate chemicals or non-penetrating foreign matter from eye with copious amounts of water or normal saline
  • Instill Proparacaine into affected eye and repeat every 5 minutes as needed
  • Dental avulsions should be placed in an obviously labeled container with saline or cell-culture medium

Burns

  • Scene safety; remove patient from burn source, including clothing
  • Maintain airway and administer oxygen
  • In burns over 10% BSA, use dry dressings and insulate patient to prevent hypothermia
  • In burns under 10% BSA, use moist dressings
  • Initiate IV fluids 0.9% NaCl or Lactated Ringers

Toxicological

  • Be sure the scene is safe
  • Absorbed poison: Remove clothing and fully decontaminate. If eye(s) involved, irrigate ≥20 minutes
  • Inhaled/ingested poison: Administer high-flow O2. Pulse oximetry may be inaccurate
  • Ingested poison:
    Contact Poison Control
    Review circumstances with Medical Control and Poison Control
  • Envenomations: Immobilize extremity in dependent position; consider ice pack for bee stings

Stroke

  • Obtain glucose reading via glucometer
  • Administer high concentration oxygen, and be prepared to assist ventilations if necessary
  • Assess patient with Cincinnati Stroke Scale
    • Facial droop (big smile)
    • Pronator drift (extend arms, palms up, eyes closed: one arm drift = positive; both = unclear)
    • Speech (“The sky is blue in Cincinnati”)
  • Assess and record the exact time the patient was last known to be normal
  • Encourage a family member to be transported with patient
  • Keep patient warm; maintain normal body temperature
  • Protect any paralyzed or partially paralyzed extremity
  • Obtain a 12-lead EKG
  • Pre-notify destination Emergency Department as early as possible
  • Consider transport to JCAHO-approved stroke center if onset of symptoms to definitive treatment can be within 3 hours (generally within two hours of symptoms to arrival at facility)
  • Transport to closest hospital if: a) cardiac arrest; b) unmanageable airway; or c) other medical condition that warrants transport to the closest hospital per protocol
  • Per local protocol, initiate fibrinolytic screening and document findings on Stroke checklist

Updated to 2017 KBEMS Protocol

Seizure

  • If generalized seizure activity is present, consider:
  • Lorazepam 1-2 mg IV or IM repeated every 5 min to a total of 4 mg
  • OR

  • Diazepam 5 mg IV(then 2.5 mg every 5 minutes to a total of 10 mg
  • Midazolam 1-2.5 mg IV/IM/IO repeated every 5 minutes to a total of 5 mg or until seizures are abolished
  • Consider Magnesium Sulfate 4 grams IV over 5 minutes in presence of seizure in 3rd trimester of pregnancy

Pain Management

  • Systolic BP >90 mmHg, no altered level of mental status, multi-system trauma, or abdominal pain
  • Ketorolac 15 mg IVP or 30 mg IM (no repeat); avoid in patients likely to go to OR, NSAID allergy, aspirin sensitive asthma, known peptic ulcer disease, pregnant, or nursing
  • Morphine 1-5 mg IV/IM every 10 min, max total 15 mg, titrated to pain and SBP >90 mmHg
  • Fentanyl 25-50 mcg slow IV every 5 min, max total 150 mcg
  • For hypoventilation from opiate administration by EMS, Naloxone 0.4 mg IV prn

Obstetrical

Nausea/Vomiting

  • Proclorperazine 2.5 mg IV or 5 mg IM
  • OR

  • Promethazine (Phenergan) 6.25 mg IV diluted in 10 ml of 0.9% NaCl, which is administered over 2 mins via the furthest port from the vein
  • May repeat either medication x1 in 10 mins if symptoms persist
  • Ondanestron ((Zofran) 4 mg IV administered over 30 seconds.
  • May repeat dose x1 in 30 minutes
  • For dystonic reactions caused by EMS administration of prochlorperazine or promethazine administer diphenhydramine 50 mg IV/IM
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