Risk Reduction

Risk Reduction in prehospital care is about understanding that some things we do can make patients worse. Additionally, EMS crews will respond to patients who will eventually have unfavorable outcomes. Patients were sick or injured before you saw them and they were sick or injured when you last saw them.

EMS risk reduction involves skill training, optimal documentation, and avoiding giving the wrong drug to the wrong  patient. Sometimes not doing procedures or giving drugs at all is the best course of action.

Occasionally EMS providers need to decide who is and who isn’t a patient. Are all the apparently non injured patients in a minor motor vehicle accident patients? Do we need charts on everyone?

Starr Consulting provides solutions to your EMS agency. We work with your training officers or medical directors to ensure the quality care you deliver minimizes risk.