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Treatment For EMT-Basics, treating the intoxicated patient consists of constant mental status checks, ensuring stable ABCs, monitoring vitals and rapid transport to the nearest medical facility. Special Cases Alcoholic Ketoacidosis The addition of alcohol into a body can result in a condition known as alcoholic ketoacidosis.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome A pregnant woman who has more than five drinks a day puts her child at risk for physical, mental and emotional disabilities. Conclusion Intoxication can be a serious medical emergency. References 1. Andreoli TE, et al. Substance Abuse. Cecil Essentials of Medicine, 4th Ed. Philadelphia, PA: W.
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After initially falling short of some city demands, the company has rallied with new hires and new ambulances. Specialties Autoimmune. Without a standard, objective-based assessment of patient sobriety levels, situations may arise that test the limits of EMS personnel. It started out as a fun and exciting night — dinner and drinks, and then tickets to see Tom Petty perform in an outdoor venue.
Three hours after dinner, inside the stadium crammed with fellow fans, a year-old female felt lightheaded and faint. A security guard summoned the onsite event medical team, while a fellow concertgoer, who witnessed her sit down abruptly and lean on her daughter, instinctively dialed The event medical team brought her to the medical treatment area, assessed her and treated her with a cooling towel and a bottle of water to drink.
Due to a lapse in event security, the responding BLS unit arrived at the medical tent, despite the venue ALS event medical team assuring the responding unit that they could cancel the call. The responding ALS unit, ironically, took the cancellation from the venue medical team and went on to their next call.
The BLS unit contacted their online medical control physician who, upon hearing the patient had consumed two alcoholic beverages four hours earlier, ordered the BLS unit to take the patient to the emergency department. The patient, alert and oriented, with no neurological or motor deficiencies and whose symptoms had resolved through hydration and cooling by the event medical staff, refused to be transported to a hospital emergency department.
Upon hearing her refusal, the BLS unit involved the police department to take the patient into custody for transport to the hospital, which the police department hesitated to do. With the patient still refusing to be transported, the BLS unit called for one of their patrol supervisors to respond.
Five hours after drinks had been consumed by the patient, and 45 minutes after the main act had concluded their performance, the BLS unit with the patient and law enforcement waited for the EMS patrol supervisor on the sidewalk outside, as the venue closed its gates and locked up.
In all likelihood, the EMS patrol supervisor most likely would have arrived and authorized the BLS unit to accept the RMA due to the acute lack of impairment exhibited by the patient.
Scenarios such as this can turn out very differently if law enforcement is willing to simply go along with what the online medical control physician tells the EMS crew, or if the patient is not educated in their rights, as this patient clearly was. The consumption of alcohol resulting in an altered status from intoxication is a common call for many modern systems.
Most tenured EMS providers will have at least one or two anecdotes regarding patients who have recently consumed alcohol, had a non-alcohol-related episodic medical issue, were alert and oriented with the ability to self-ambulate, yet were still forced to go to the hospital against their wishes due to either standing protocol, law enforcement rules or online medical control direction.
Traditionally, EMS providers are not equipped with either the techniques or the tools to objectively determine the intoxication level of an individual. Yet, these non-invasive tools have existed for decades and are often used by law enforcement.
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