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POLICY 4.OS,"EMERGENCY MEDICAL PLAN" PAGE 2 OF 4 I~ All training received by jail detention officers will be documented, maintained and filed as outlined in Orange County Jail Policy 1.04, "Employee Training." 2. Emergency Medical Care Procedures: A. In the event a jail detention officer should discover or be summoned to respond to a medical emergency, the jail detention officer will immediately contact the Control Room detention officer using the intercom system or radio and explain to him/her that a medical emergency exists.. B. The Control Room detention officer will be responsible for contacting the following individuals/groups in the following order. 1. EMS: 2 Senior Detention Officer 3. Lieutenant 4. Major or in his/her absence, the Sheriff. G A list of all emergency phone numbers will be posted in a conspicuous place in the Control Roam near the telephone for all detention officers to have access to, D. ANY jail detention officer responding to a medical emergency in a cellblock shall be responsible for observing all secruity precautions when entering the cellblock to provide care to an inmate. To this end, the detention officer will be responsible for ensuring that multiple detention officers are summoned to assist him/her in handling the medical emergency and to evacuate all other inmates from the cell block so that adequate medical care can be provided. (Detention staff shall ask an officer or the control room detention officer TO lock the cell door when they enter the cellblock if they have to enter the cellblock). If they have moved all other inmates from the cellblock this may not be necessary). E. The responding detention officer may employ emergency fust aid techniques and or CPR as needed until such a time that medical assistance arrives on the scene .Tail detention officers should use universal safety precautions when administering fast aid or CPR. to avoid contamination from any contagious or communicable diseases. F. Once EMS staff or medical professionals have azrived at the facility, jail detention officers will afford them access to the inmate requiring medical care and will allow the medical personnel to take over all medical care responsibilities. Jail detention officers are not to interfere with any medical care being provided an inmate by qualified EMS health care professionals. G. Should EMS or any medical professional responding to the emergency make the determination that the inmate requires transportation to an outside medical facility for treatment; officers shall follow the procedures outlined in Orange County Jail Policy 4.1.3, "Transportation of Inmates for Medical Caze,"