Protocol for Dental School Emergency Response Team Paging:
The Emergency Response pager number is programmed into the speed dial location on clinic wall phone and is marked as “Emergency” and highlighted in pink. From a non-clinic phone within the building, page using the number 9-410-389-1324. After triple beep tone, enter the nearest room/quad # where the emergency is occurring
- Exceptions: ground floor -enter letter G as zero: G205 would be 0205
- CMS on lower level -enter 777
Emergency responders will report to the room/quad & provide treatment.
Before Responders Arrive:
- If bodily fluids present and/or victim is coughing, don the appropriate PPE
- Position victim so as to protect from further injury on the floor or in a dental chair.
- If patient is feeling faint or has fainted, lower head of chair and/or raise feet unless doing so might cause further injury.
- If campus police have been called to send an ambulance, designate a person to alert the guard in the atrium lobby, and to assist the EMTs to the emergency.
- If possible, bring or have someone bring the Emergency Cart/Oxygen tank into the room/quad (located outside clinic prep area or in some side hallways off main corridors).
- Start oxygen with a nasal cannula for oxygen support at 2-4 L/min, or with a non-re-breather mask, if the patient is distressed due to shortness of breath, at 10-15L/min.
- Provide treatment if trained; at minimum assess ABCs (Airway, Breathing, and Circulation)
- Start CPR if necessary for the response team!
Members of the Emergency Response Team include, but are not limited to the following individuals who will be alerted when the emergency pager number 9-410-389-1324 is activated:
RN II (Oral Surgery Nurse)
Personal Pager #(9-410-389-1334)
Phone # 6-4026
Room: 1326
RN II (Infection Control Nurse)
Personal Pager #(9-410-389-1298)
Phone # 6-6344
Room: 4317
LPN (Dental School Nurse)
Personal Pager #(9-410-389-1331)
Phone #6-7496
Room: 2318
Dr. Cynthia Idzik-Starr
Personal Pager #(9-410-389-1332)
Phone #6-4010
Room: OMS
Dr.Marvin Leventer
Personal Pager #(9-410-389-0729)
Phone # 6-2470
Room: 2470