A couple of reminders about Tuesday’s Quarterly Triage Day (QTD) Drill that starts at 8 AM on the 19th.  It will include use of the MARCS radio MCI Talk Groups for all hospitals during two 2-Hour blocks of time, and an OHTrac incident will be available for every agency to use.  Full details are attached.  Don’t forget that training materials (with CE) for both EMS and hospital personnel continue to be available at http://gmvemsc.org/training-mcicomm.html.

 

Finally, give us feedback!  At the end of the drill or the end of your shift, we request that every EMS agency and hospital fill out this brief feedback form, which you are welcome to print beforehand to help you gather the data.  Here is the link to the feedback form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/June18QTD, or here’s a QR code for the survey that you can scan with your phone:

 

 

The region’s next Quarterly Triage Day (QTD) Drill will start at 8 am June 19, 2018, and end at 8 am on June 20, 2018. 

·        During this exercise every patient should receive a triage ribbon and a GREEN triage tag.

·        Hospitals should apply the tag and ribbon if EMS does not or if the patient self-transports.

All hospitals need to monitor MCI radios from 1 – 3 pm and from 8 – 10 pm.

EMS crews transporting patients to a hospital during these times should provide a brief message to the hospital via the MCI radios.

Finally, all hospitals should update their GDAHA Surgenet MCI page at least once every 8 hours, and practice entering patients into the OhTrac incident, which will be created by GDAHA for the drill.

There is more information in the attachments, including an MCI Communications Drill Job Aid, and a QTD flyer.  Hospitals are asked to post these attachments in EMS Rooms and elsewhere. EMS agencies are asked to display the information in stations.  Please help us get the word out to all line personnel, both in EMS and in EDs.

If you need additional GREEN triage tags or triage ribbons, contact GDAHA or Dayton MMRS.

Thank you for participating in QTD drills. You are helping the region better prepare.

 

                           David N. Gerstner

                           MMRS/RMRS/EP Coordinator

                           Department of Fire  I  City of Dayton

                           300 N. Main St.  I  Dayton, Ohio 45402

       Office 937.333.4551  I  Fax 937.333.4561  I  www.daytonohio.gov

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       Cell  937.776.4410 
                           david.gerstner@daytonohio.gov  I  http://DaytonMMRS.org