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6/13/2006
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5d
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2006 S Sheriff- Orange County Jail Medical Plan and Hillsborough Medical Contract
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Minutes - 20060613
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POLICY 4.OS,"EMERGENCY MEDICAL PLAN" <br />PAGE 2 OF 4 <br />I~ <br />All training received by jail detention officers will be documented, maintained and filed <br />as outlined in Orange County Jail Policy 1.04, "Employee Training." <br />2. Emergency Medical Care Procedures: <br />A. In the event a jail detention officer should discover or be summoned to respond to <br />a medical emergency, the jail detention officer will immediately contact the Control <br />Room detention officer using the intercom system or radio and explain to him/her that a <br />medical emergency exists.. <br />B. The Control Room detention officer will be responsible for contacting the <br />following individuals/groups in the following order. <br />1. EMS: <br />2 Senior Detention Officer <br />3. Lieutenant <br />4. Major or in his/her absence, the Sheriff. <br />G A list of all emergency phone numbers will be posted in a conspicuous place in the <br />Control Roam near the telephone for all detention officers to have access to, <br />D. ANY jail detention officer responding to a medical emergency in a cellblock shall <br />be responsible for observing all secruity precautions when entering the cellblock to <br />provide care to an inmate. To this end, the detention officer will be responsible for <br />ensuring that multiple detention officers are summoned to assist him/her in handling the <br />medical emergency and to evacuate all other inmates from the cell block so that adequate <br />medical care can be provided. (Detention staff shall ask an officer or the control room <br />detention officer TO lock the cell door when they enter the cellblock if they have to enter <br />the cellblock). If they have moved all other inmates from the cellblock this may not be <br />necessary). <br />E. The responding detention officer may employ emergency fust aid techniques and <br />or CPR as needed until such a time that medical assistance arrives on the scene .Tail <br />detention officers should use universal safety precautions when administering fast aid or <br />CPR. to avoid contamination from any contagious or communicable diseases. <br />F. Once EMS staff or medical professionals have azrived at the facility, jail detention <br />officers will afford them access to the inmate requiring medical care and will allow the <br />medical personnel to take over all medical care responsibilities. Jail detention officers <br />are not to interfere with any medical care being provided an inmate by qualified <br />EMS health care professionals. <br />G. Should EMS or any medical professional responding to the emergency make the <br />determination that the inmate requires transportation to an outside medical facility for <br />treatment; officers shall follow the procedures outlined in Orange County Jail Policy <br />4.1.3, "Transportation of Inmates for Medical Caze," <br />
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