Accurately Convey Incident Details to Emergency Response Services
When the ambulance arrives do not stop your treatment until you have been instructed to do so by the Ambulance Officer. This allows the Ambulance Officer time to quickly prepare their equipment and get ready to take over treatment.
Sometimes you will be required to carry on assisting the Ambulance officer especially when they are working alone. You may be required to assist them until back up arrives. If this is the circumstance make sure that you follow the instruction given very carefully.
The first aider can assist the Ambulance Officer by:
- Giving information of:
- Initial presentation
- History
- Response to first aid treatment
- What actions were taken
- Any Assistance required
It is important that first aider's remember that Ambulance Officers have a Duty of Care to the casualty and as such, need to establish their own findings for themselves; this is despite what you as a first aider might have already told them. So with this in mind don't be surprised if after you have told them what you have found, and done they re-question and re-assess the casualty.
The Ambulance Officers might also depending on the circumstances remove any bandages that you may have applied so as to assess the injury for them; they may also apply specific purpose equipment.
It is important that prior to the Ambulance arriving, you take note of what you have done and any observation, so as to pass on accurately any information that they may require.