What patient care records are required for the EMS to provide to the hospital when delivering a patient?
The transporting EMS is required to provide at least a preliminary report at delivery, followed by a formal, written/printed report as soon as possible. The preliminary information isn’t required to be in a particular format, but should provide any and all vital information that’s necessary for continuing treatment of the patient. Both the preliminary report and the formal, written report should document, at a minimum, the patient’s condition upon arrival at the scene; the prehospital care provided; the patient’s status during transport, including signs, symptoms, and responses during the transport; the call initiation time; dispatch time; scene arrival time; scene departure time and hospital arrival time. Q: In addition to providing various stages of certification status, the old Cert Query available on your website included specific deficiencies that needed to be cleared to qualify for certification. I haven’t been able to find that information on the new Public License Search. Is th
