Emergency Medical Response

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Emergency Medical Response

• David Schmitt, BS, NREMT-P
• American Medical Response

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Who?
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What?

• Planning
• Roadway design
• Disaster response
• Inclement weather
• Assistance
• Reporting crashes
• Identifying problems
• Unsafe roadways
• Unsafe drivers

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What? (cont.)

• Signage
• Present
• Readable
• Accurate

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Signing
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Much better!
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What? (cont.)

• Response
• Reduce response times
• Increase ability to help
• Reduce Suffering

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When?

• Seasonal
• Winter snow or icy roadways
• Construction (construction zone safety)
• Changing conditions
• Road closures
• Signs missing

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Where?
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How?

• Communication
• Between agencies
• Cooperation
• Between individual departments

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How? (cont.)

• Concentration
• To identify problems
• Concern
• To find solutions to identified problems

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Why?

• Safety on roads
• For all individuals on the roadways in South
  Dakota
• Improve services
• Quicker response times
• Reduce morbidity and mortality
• Assurance
• When you call for help we (collectively) will be
  there.

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Why? Better tomorrows!