QUALITY CURRICULUM
• Approved for CE credit by Volusia County
Medical Director Dr. Peter Springer
• Course developed by National Association of
Emergency Medical Technicians Subject
Matter Expert Kip Teitsort
H Published Author on EMS Scene Safety
H Experienced State and National Level
Presenter on the subject of EMS Patient/
Provider Scene Safety Skills
School of Emergency Services
Why you should enroll
in DT4EMS™
NAEMT, 2005:
52 percent of responding EMS workers
report having been assaulted in the course of
their work.
Escaping Violent
Encounters
for EMS and Fire Personnel
Boston Herald, 2005:
About 700,000 assaults on EMTs and
paramedics in the United States each year.
January 17, 2009:
EMT Melissa Greenhagen is shot outside
a hospital in Montana.
January 30, 2009:
Call today to register!
April 16 & 17, 2011
Daytona State College
School of Emergency Services
Tom Lee, EMT-P, RN, DT4EMS Instructor
(386) 506-4490 or leet@DaytonaState.edu
Georgia Jenkins, EMT-P, DT4EMS Instructor
(386) 506-3620 or jenking@DaytonaState.edu
EMT Mark Davis is shot while on a medical
call in Cape Vincent, New York.
January 12, 2010:
A pair of EMTs are attacked by a man wielding a
samurai sword in Mississippi.
May 2010:
A Los Angeles firefighter/paramedic is stabbed
while on a medical call.
December 11, 2010:
A U.K. politician is convicted of attacking and
injuring three EMS workers who responded to
treat his injuries after a fall.
www.DaytonaState.edu/ems
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April 16 & 17, 2011
Escaping Violent Encounters
for EMS and Fire Personnel
April 16 & 17, 2011
Have you or your staff ever been threatened, yelled
at or physically assaulted by a patient, upset family
member or bystander? Research shows that injuries
from assaults are a leading cause of lost work hours
in EMS. This course is for EMS managers and their
staff who are interested in learning about how to
respond to such particularly stressful incidents.
Our Defensive Tactics for Emergency Medical
Services (DT4EMSTM) Escaping Violent Encounters
course can help keep you and your staff safe.
Our training emphasizes good customer service
practices, and teaches proven verbal skills to be used
before, during and after an incident. The course also
teaches the use of reasonable force as a last resort,
providing real-world skills to free EMS providers from
actual physical assaults should they occur.
Topics covered include:
• Dispatch to Scene Indicators
• Arrival Scene Indicators
• Laws of Self Defense
• Assault Response Guidelines
• Laws of Patient Restraint
• Assault Response Problem Solving
• Escape Skills
• Basic Pressure Distraction Points
• Pre-Assault Indicators
• Proper Documentation
• Patient vs. Attacker Recognition
• Physical Fitness in EMS
What you will learn:
Liability Awareness
In addition to training in the limits to force and
restraint by EMS personnel, participants will learn
articulation and documentation skills that will hold
up to scrutiny in any legal or ethical venue. Sound
decisions in the face of a dangerous assault by
a patient, and the articulation skills to prove the
reasonableness of those responses, will reduce
the EMS professional’s exposure to liability in any
situation.
Your personnel face the daily prospect of assault and
injury. Without training, they will resort to improvised
methods of defense and restraint. Their improvisation may later be found to be unreasonable, and
sometimes even have criminal liability. Additionally,
as their employer, your agency or company may be
exposed to tremendous civil liability as a result of
their actions. DT4EMS™ provides “Assault Response
Guidelines” for those instances when prevention and
avoidance are just not enough.
Practical Techniques
Our system of assault avoidance and response is
designed to be relevant to every member of your
staff – big or small, strong or less so, male or female,
trained in defense skills or not. We don’t teach
fancy techniques that are forgotten even before the
student leaves the classroom. Instead, we teach your
personnel to problem-solve the situation confronting
them using verbal conflict resolution, deflection
and de-escalation techniques, as well as physical
tactics that are easy to recall and easily performed by
anyone. These are proven skills that can help EMS
personnel avoid and escape dangerous situations,
even under stress.