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Welcome

Welcome. Course Objectives. Upon completing this course, you will know how to: Identify the differences between the two portable radio models used in MCFRS. Ensure your radio is ready for use before beginning your shift.

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  1. Welcome

  2. Course Objectives • Upon completing this course, you will know how to: • Identify the differences between the two portable radio models used in MCFRS. • Ensure your radio is ready for use before beginning your shift. • Change to appropriate talkgroups for incident and non-incident activity. • Declare and emergency by radio and clear an accidental activation. • Use the radio in a variety of atypical scenarios.

  3. Course Outline • We will covering the following today: • Hardware Basics • Shift Change • BLS Scenarios • Box Alarm Scenario • Emergency Button • Radio Customization • What-If Scenarios • Assessment Test

  4. Hardware Basics

  5. Hardware Basics • 7000: • Unit Officers • HazMat Personnel • Chiefs • Command Staff • 6000: • Everyone Else

  6. Hardware Basics

  7. Shift Change

  8. Battery Strength Signal Strength Radio Display

  9. Batt Zone Scan Shift Change • To See the Percentage: • Find the Batt menu option. • Press the button below the Batt menu. • Press the button below the Exit menu when you have finished. Exit

  10. Battery Release

  11. Batt Zone Scan Shift Change

  12. Radio Etiquette

  13. Radio Etiquette • When calling Montgomery: • Identify your unit first, then add “to Montgomery.” • Wait for a response, then think about what you’re going to say before you say it. • Press and hold your Push-to-Talk (PTT) button, wait for the acknowledge tone and then say what you need to say.

  14. Washington Post Test I just transported you the other day. This unit is still not a taxi. ! !

  15. Jurisdiction Identification: COG

  16. BLS Scenarios

  17. BLS: A Basic Call for a Sick Person (Listen to the dispatch.)

  18. BLS: A Basic Call for a Sick Person

  19. Sel Exit Batt Zone Scan BLS: A Basic Call for a Sick Person • To Change Zones: • Click the button for the Zone menu. • Click the up or down arrow button as needed (down, in this case). • Click the button for Sel(ect).

  20. BLS: A Basic Call for a Sick Person Shady Grove Adventist Hospital (SGAH)

  21. Batt Zone Scan BLS: A Basic Call for a Sick Person

  22. BLS: A Basic Call for a Sick Person

  23. BLS: A Basic Call for a Sick Person

  24. Batt Zone Scan BLS: Using EMRC (Listen to the dispatch.)

  25. BLS: Using EMRC

  26. BLS: Using EMRC • EMRC: Emergency Medical Resource Center (Baltimore) • EMRC is used to: • Arrange a consult • Determine hospital status • Reach hospital personnel who aren’t responding

  27. Batt Zone Scan BLS: Using EMRC

  28. BLS: Using EMRC • Here’s what you would say: • “EMRC, EMRC, this is Montgomery [unit name/number],requesting a consult with [hospital name].” • Once you and hospital personnel are on the same talkgroup, say: • “I have a priority [#] patient with no medic on board. The patient has taken three rounds of nitro, per protocol, but his pain relief is short and he still ahs chest pain. He’s registered a 7 of 10 on the pain scale and I’m requesting to give him more nitro until the medic arrives.”

  29. Batt Zone Scan BLS: Using EMRC

  30. Batt Zone Scan BLS: Using EMRC

  31. Batt Zone Scan BLS: Hospital Page

  32. BLS: Hospital Page • To Page a Hospital: • Go to the hospital’s designated talkgroup. • Find and press the button below the Page menu. • Press your PTT and wait for a response.

  33. BLS: Hospital Page

  34. Box Alarm Scenario

  35. Scenario 3: Box Alarm (Listen to the dispatch.)

  36. Scenario 3: Box Alarm

  37. Batt Zone Scan Scenario 3: Box Alarm

  38. *7D *7E *7C *7F Scenario 3: Box Alarm

  39. Emergency Button

  40. Scenario 4A: Accidental Emergency Activation Emergency Key Pressed July 11, 2011 13:08:02 Unit: A702 Current Event: Unit is not currently assigned to an event. OK

  41. Scenario 4A: Accidental Emergency Activation • Correct Procedure • Press and hold the Emergency button until you see the word Emergency disappear from the radio screen. • Contact ECC to report your accidental activation.

  42. Signal 3 Danger from other people Mayday Danger from environment Scenario 4B: Real Emergency

  43. BC You Scenario 4B: Real Emergency

  44. BC You Scenario 4B: Real Emergency Emergency

  45. BC You Scenario 4B: Real Emergency Emergency

  46. Emer Rcvd Scenario 4B: Real Emergency Notification No Notification

  47. Emer Rcvd Scenario 4B: Real Emergency Don’t touch!

  48. Radio Customization

  49. Customization: Keypad Lock

  50. Batt Zone Scan Customization: Mute • To Mute the Keypad Tones: • Click the right arrow button to change menus. • Click the button beneath the Mute menu.

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