#SYWYSO Violence in Healthcare Awareness Campaign -SYWYSO – “Saving Yours, While You Save Others.” Violence Awareness Campaign from Kip Teitsort on Vimeo. I always say how there is no Awareness Campaign for violence in medicine. We know the difficulty of getting people to realize their safety is just as important, if not more so, than […]
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Hey OSHA! Look here… Why don’t you help expose this “dirty little secret” like you did with BloodBorne Pathogens, crashes, back injures, slip/trip/fall hazards? Providers, take a moment and click these hyperlinks. There you can see the Pre-hospital Assault on Staff Log and the in-hospital Assault on Staff Log where we keep record of media […]
Kip Teitsort, Founder DT4EMS One thing is for sure take social media add the mainstream media and you are sure to find that public servants will be found guilty until proven innocent in the court of public opinion. This is the very reason providers must prepare to act in such a way we begin to […]
In an unprecedented move to streamline airway adjuncts and oxygen use, several EMS agencies and fire departments have removed all airway devices from their units except for one. The only emergency airway intervention left on their rescue trucks and ambulances is the surgical cricothyrotomy kit. These seemingly progressive departments filled with educated administrators felt there […]
Case Study: A 911 call comes in for a report of a possible fight at the scene of a fire. The caller claims to be across the street from the house where the fire is. The caller states he can see one man down in the yard with another man on top of him. […]
When you told me how you were punched by a drunk in the emergency department, I remember you. When you told me about being choked by a drunk in the ambulance, I remember you. When you told me how the girl looked like your daughter, just before she slashed your face, I remember you. When […]
By: Kip Teitsort Tons of reports (finally) surfacing in the media of assaults on paramedics, nurses and EMTs coupled with various studies showing violence directed at staff is a serious issue. Why then is there so little acknowledgement of violence directed at medical staff? Little to no coverage on the national or even the local […]
By Kip Teitsort, Founder DT4EMS, LLC Frequently when staff are interviewed about a violent encounter ( in which staff was criminally assaulted) something as simple as using SOAP could have mitigated many of them. In nearly every initial “patient” contact a provider can use the SOAP method to buy a moment in time to decided […]
