Pennsylvania Emergency Health Services WEMT Subcommittee

Motions to PEHSC EMT/Paramedic Committee, March 29, 1995

(note to PEHSC Staff: this version was prepared as per the Committee's instructions to pass on to the Medical Advisory Committee. --Keith Conover, M.D., Subcommittee Chair)

[discussion: this first motion, passed unanimously, is a Vote To Recommend from the EMT/Paramedic Advisory Committee to the PEHSC Board]

Resolved, that

1. the attached letter documents the need for the Pennsylvania Emergency Health Services Council to address wilderness/backcountry EMS problems, and
   
   
2. the EMT/Paramedic Committee recommend to the Board that PEHSC include Wilderness EMS in its legislative agenda.
   
   

[passed unanimously, without discussion except for the motion's presentation]

[Discussion: this second motion, also passed unanimously, is an motion internal to the EMT/Paramedic Advisory Committee to give a specific charge to the Wilderness EMT Subcommittee: to bring to the next full Committee meeting a set of principles. The Committee can then discuss them, endorse them, and pass them on to the Board with a Vote to Recommend.]

Resolved, that
Further work by the Wilderness EMT Subcommittee should include liaison with other PEHSC Committees, and should develop a draft statement for PEHSC consensus endorsement that deals with the following key concepts (but not with any specific legislative agenda):

1. Improving Care: working to provide Pennsylvania's wilderness/backcountry patients with care according to national wilderness/backcountry care clinical standards.
2. Statewide QI: providing a Quality Improvement system for the care delivered to wilderness/backcountry patients.
3. Interagency Cooperation: cooperation and coordination between the Pennsylvania EMS and Search and Rescue systems and their component agencies and organizations.
4. Centralized Program: developing a cost-effective and inexpensive program to address the above concepts at the state level, and to address the other systems component needs of wilderness/backcountry patients:
   • manpower
   • training
   • communications
   • transportation (in the case of Wilderness EMS, evacuation to a vehicle)
   • facilities
   • critical care units
   • public safety agencies
   • consumer participation
   • access to care
   • coordinated patient recordkeeping
   • public information and education
   • review and evaluation
   • disaster plan
   • mutual aid

[list taken from Mustalish AC, Post C. Chapter 1: History. In: Kuehl AE, ed. National Association of EMS Physicians' Prehospital Systems and Medical Oversight, 2E. St. Louis: Mosby, 1994.]

[passed unanimously, without discussion except for the motion's presentation]

Designed by a member of