OEMS Emergency Changes

OEMS has issued an emergency change to Protocol 7.3.
There has been an update to MOLST/DNR Protocol 7.3. Due to COVID-19, verbal direction is accepted, a signature in not required.  

OEMS Protocol (MOLST)

A waiver has been issued is to alleviate hospital emergency department overcrowding and reduce the spread of infectious disease due to COVID-19, by allowing EMS to bring patients in impending childbirth, or with pregnancy complications, by ambulance directly to a labor and delivery department, or other alternate site designated by the hospital on its grounds for such patients, instead of to the hospital’s emergency department.

Childbirth Plan of Entry