Health care
BY KAROLINE PFEIL
Local EMS officials share tips for residents in medical emergencies
The overview
For Spicewood residents, ESD #9 offers free first- aid classes on a monthly basis, training the public on how to administer basic first aid practices like CPR or stroke assessments, which Hamilton said can improve some conditions. Hamilton also emphasized the importance of calling 911 as opposed to driving a patient to the hospital independently. “If you’re having a true heart attack, sometimes people end up [trying] to take themselves to the hospital, [and] they go to the wrong hospital,” Hamilton said. “There’s certain hospitals that can treat heart attacks and certain ones that can’t.” Hamilton said that locating a hospital is a critical choice emergency responders should make.
callers in medical emergencies can do is to gather and share as much medical information about the involved patient as possible. Hamilton recommended keeping a short page of medical conditions, contacts, insurance information, allergies and current medications, and said that the benefit to first responders is significant. “There was a woman in Marble Falls who did that and she just placed it on the wall,” Hamilton said. “As soon as we walk in her front door, we see this envelope for EMS and it’s really handy—especially if it’s a time-sensitive medical emergency.”
With 9 different EMS departments serving the Lake Travis-Westlake region, county officials are sharing advice on how residents should respond in a medical emergency. Residents of the Lake Travis region fall between two counties: Travis and Burnet, each with their own array of emergency services districts. In the Spicewood area, residents are serviced by ESD #9 of Burnet County, which includes its own fire department and emergency medical services dispatch. Vaughn Hamilton, who oversees the district’s community paramedic and outreach program, said that one of the most important things
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Designated trauma centers provide various levels of care in emergencies, from stabilization at Level IV to comprehensive care at Level I, according to BS&W. In the Lake Travis area, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services, the nearest medical centers designated as trauma facilities include: • BS&W Medical Center-Lakeway (Level IV) • BS&W Medical Center-Marble Falls (Level IV) • St. Davids South Austin Medical Center (Level II) • Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas (Level I)
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SOURCES: TRAVIS COUNTY, BURNET COUNTY/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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