DT4EMS – Defensive Tactics 4 Escaping Mitigating Surviving Violence

EVE Fire & EMS

To empower cultural and behavioral modification through the enforcement of exemplary customer service, reasonability, and industry best practices that yield a reduction in employer liability and culminate in an increase employee safety and security.

Focus: All levels of pre-hospital providers & firefighters

Length: 16 Hour (Two Day Course)

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EVE4HP

Escaping Violent Encounters for Healthcare Providers

The health care industry leads all other sectors in the incidence of nonfatal workplace assaults,
and the emergency department is a particularly vulnerable setting. Workplace violence is a significant occupational hazard facing emergency nurses- ENA

Focus: All levels of the in-hospital/home-health patient care setting (RN,LPN,MD,Techs,CNA)

Length: 8-hours

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Specialized Courses

DT4EMS has several special courses available.
EVE4Women- Women's Course (Ages 13 & Up)
EVE4EP- Educational Professionals (School Staff)
EVEAdvanced- Advanced Skills Course (PreReqs)
EVEInstructor- Instructor Programs

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Due Diligence Resources for DT4EMS’ EVE

Due diligence on DT4EMS’ EVE Related post: DT4EMS is Bullsh!t One thing is certain, researching an unfamiliar topic, especially one with such a high-frequency, high-liability presence, can be taxing and time consuming. To save you some of your valuable time, this post will help speed up your research process. Parts of due diligence for training […]

” He broke my neck in over 30 places, my back, my shoulder, both orbits, tore my ear partly off …” A medic’s account of assault

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Signs: My Story

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About Us: Introduction to DT4EMS’ EVE

DT4EMS’ Escaping Violent Encounters (EVE) programs provide staff with the ability to recognize when a relationship changes. It is the critical thinking skills to recognize when a person is no longer a patient. That is what makes DT4EMS’ EVE different, relevant and culture changing. 1. The FACTS Workplace Violence in Emergency Medicine is […]

Culture = Changed! Watch the video and see what we mean!

Kip Teitsort had his ambulance car-jacked while loaded with a patient. You can read Kip’s account of the violent encounter HERE. That is just part of the story! It is what happens in the weeks, months and years after the fact that bring inspiration to those in EMS/Fire and the emergency department setting! Instead of […]

“No one person can be controlled by another, unless they want you to.”

Stop. Please… Read the information below, before you watch the video. The videos contained for reference are merely a sample of what you will find when you research the topic. At no point is there ridicule, or blame toward anyone contained within the footage. Having been involved in similar situations, ( as a police officer [...]

Paramedic Assault Caught on Camera: Here’s how to escape chokes on the ground

First, watch the video of the assault, then we will cover a couple escapes. Volusia Medic Assaultv2 from DT4EMS (Kip Teitsort) on Vimeo. Escape 1: Mounted Choke Choke Escape from Mounted Position from DT4EMS (Kip Teitsort) on Vimeo. North/South Escape V1 North/South Choke Escape Tips from DT4EMS (Kip Teitsort) on Vimeo.

EMS Poem on video

AN EMS Poem from DT4EMS (Kip Teitsort) on Vimeo. In school, to the eager EMT it’s first said: “We keep the reaper from claiming his dead.” We’re often placed in situations posing grave danger, compelled to care not about self, but the patient, a stranger. Speeding, swerving, and strobe lights are exciting, but [...]

Building Security Tips for EMS and Fire Stations

Horrific stories like the ones below, highlight the need for improved security measures and mindset for EMS and fire stations. In the early morning hours of Feb. 8, 2018 surveillance cameras at a Terrytown fire station (LA) show what appears to be a man enter through a door to the bay area. The suspect then [...]

The REAL reason for the rising assaults on healthcare providers!

What started out as a routine cardiac transport, became a struggle between life and death, and not for just the patient. In the fall of 2000, an early monring call for service, changed me and the direction of DT4EMS forever. During transport, dispatch asked if we could check on a “body in the ditch." Our [...]

CalOSHA proves California cares about Healthcare Workers! DT4EMS’ Alignment with the rule

California Cares! Workplace Violence Prevention in Health Care Finally! After years of trying to raise awareness by speaking at conferences, teaching courses, creating videos and blog posts, some literally begging OSHA to dig into (the dirty little secret) violence in healthcare… CalOSHA stepped up. While I like to think DT4EMS played some part in [...]

CPI’s NVCI vs. DT4EMS’ EVE – A simple comparison

Every system is great when used for what it was created. EVE and NVCI are certainly proof of that statement. Apply any analogy you wish; a square peg for a round hole, when "every tool is a hammer..." and you "get" what this post is about. All one really has to do is look at [...]

Situational Awareness: The Color Code Model

Situational Awareness: The Color Code Model I was first introduced into the concept of threat awareness color-codes during my training at the police academy. Although that was in 1995, it still has purpose today. It was a process I applied on the street, throughout my careers in law enforcement and EMS. I even found I [...]

Fmr. EMT Stabbed in the Heart, walks to the hospital and LIVES!

Here was the first report I saw. It was sent to me by a mutual friend, who later helped us get connected: Watch the news report first. Then check out our video hangout. Here is our hangout!

Nurses choked by patients! Every nurse should learn this simple, effective escape!

Escaping, Mitigating, and Surviving (EMS) violence on the job in medicine. That is what we are passionate about. Many of the reports I would receive over the years were anecdotal. The reason? Most nurses were forced into silence about violent encounters in the hospital. Most were told it was part of the job, others were […]