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Medical Emergencies
Medical Emergencies
A medical emergency occurring at school is not unusual. Any time a life-threatening situation is suspected, 911 should be called immediately. The procedure for a medical emergency is included in the multi-colored MMSD Emergency Procedures Manual that should be clearly posted in numerous locations, including classrooms, throughout school buildings. It is helpful for Health Services staff or others trained in first aid/CPR to remain with the victim while others call fire rescue and retrieve the AED if indicated. High schools have several AEDs, all other schools have one. If you call 911, please contact the Assistant Director of Health Services as soon as reasonable.
Cardiac Emergency Response If Pocket Mask Not Available
Cardiac Emergency Response If Pocket Mask Not Available
Hands-only CPR: 2 Steps to Save a Life
Call 911
Push Hard & Fast
Instructional video to share with staff
Project Adam
Project Adam
Project ADAM Wisconsin Heart Safe Schools is a recognition and awareness program that includes tools to track school readiness to respond to a cardiac emergency and to build awareness of signs and symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest. This website contains links to Heart Safe Schools resources and training videos.
Initial Heart Safe School Designation
Initial Heart Safe School Designation
Perform an Initial Cardiac Emergency Preparedness Assessment to begin the process with a snapshot in time of your school’s readiness to respond. This will become a great worksheet guiding you towards designation. Electronically submit your answers here: https://formstack.io/5597F
Utilize the Heart Safe Toolkit to turn any of the No’s on your assessment to a Yes. All of the resources and templates are linked to each point on the assessment.
Now you have the tenets to a great Cardiac Emergency Response Plan. To feel confident in your plan, it’s important to practice that plan while running a CPR/AED Drill with your newly developed Cardiac Emergency Response Team. This video is a good example of a CPR/AED Drill being run in a school, but keep in mind that CPR should not be delayed, and must start immediately.
If you haven’t already, reach out to WI Program Coodinator, Jodi Wenzel at jwenzel@childrenswi.org for the link to the final step in the Heart Safe School Designation process, which is filling out the Designation Acknowledgement.
Renewing Your Schools Heart Safe Designation
Renewing Your Schools Heart Safe Designation
I encourage you to take an objective look at your readiness by taking a snapshot in time today, and completing the Cardiac Emergency Response Preparedness Assessment (the renewal process does not include submitting this information electronically). This will reveal anything that needs to be updated, and help you feel confident that moving forward you are working with your school’s most current information.
Once you do your Assessment, you will have a nice worksheet to outline any updates that are needed. Our Heart Safe Toolkit nicely mirrors the Assessment and shares any tools/resources needed to change any No’s to Yes’s.
If your Assessment is complete and all No’s have been remedied, you have the basic tenets of a Cardiac Emergency Response Plan. Take a look at the one that was previously developed for your school, and make adjustments based on new information.
Now, you are ready to practice this plan. This will shake any rust off if you haven’t run drills, and help to expose any holes in your Cardiac Emergency Response Plan.
After that- it’s time to renew your designation. If you haven’t already, reach out via email to Jodi Wenzel at jwenzel@childrenswi.org, to talk things through, and get the link to the Designation Acknowledgement.
Medical Response & Evacuation Bags
Medical Response & Evacuation Bags
Emergency Procedures & Standard Response Protocol
Emergency Procedures & Standard Response Protocol
The Multi-Colored MMSD Emergency Procedures Manual/Flip Chart contains instructions for emergencies within the School and Community. A copy of the Manual/Flip chart must be displayed in your health office. If needed, contact the school's administrative assistant.
The Standard Response Protocol contains specific actions for staff and students to take during a the following situations: Lockdown, Secure, Evacuate, Shelter, and Hold. A copy of the Standard Response Protocol poster must be displayed in the Health Office. If needed, contact the school's administrative assistant.
MMSD Resources
MMSD Resources
Expanded Health Services
Expanded Health Services
For the student diagnosed with asthma who has a severe event at school, the school nurse, when physically present in the building, can begin emergency treatment right away (before paramedics arrive).
For students without a previously identified allergy, or for those without access to their prescribed emergency epinephrine, school nurses, nurse's assistants or other staff trained on epinephrine auto-injector administration will utilize the stock epinephrine auto-injector to provide treatment while waiting for EMS to arrive.
Parent permission for this is not requested or required, although the nurse will contact the parent/guardian as soon as possible to notify of event. Students with already diagnosed serious allergic reactions or asthma should continue to provide emergency medication and written parent permission and health care provider orders for treatment at school.
Child Abuse & Neglect
Child Abuse & Neglect
As school employees and health care professionals, school nurses are mandated reporters of suspected child abuse or neglect.
Additional resources:
Additional resources:
Stop the Bleed
Stop the Bleed
Stop the Bleed is a program for people to learn how to manage a bleeding emergency and increase the chance of survival. MMSD has bleeding control kits in each school throughout the district.
Stop the Bleed Bleeding Control Basics (powerpoint)
Stop the Bleed (Booklet)
Display the Stop the Bleed (Poster) in the Health Office
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