Pediatric Hospital
Destination Guidelines
Greenville Memorial
- All Trauma Alert Levels
- Violent psychiatric patients
- Cardiac Arrest or Imminent Arrest
- Post cardiac arrest patients
- Sexual assault patients without significant physical trauma
- Sexual assault patients with significant physical trauma
- Patient requiring a specialist "Ologist", with a related complaint
- Severly ill, but not in immediate danger to arrest
- Not severly ill, and not meeting other specific patinet types above
Any Prisma, St. Francis, or Pelham Medical
- Cardiac Arrest or Imminent Arrest
- Not severly ill, and not meeting other specific patinet types above
Any Prisma Facility
- Cardiac Arrest or Imminent Arrest
- Sexual assault patients with significant physical trauma
- Not severly ill, and not meeting other specific patinet types above
PEARLS:
- Once the destination hospital has been determined, the EMS crew must call the receiving facility via a recorded line as soon as possible. The report should include Age, Sex, Chief complaint, & Vital signs.
- A more complete report should be given for higher acuity patients.
- Any deviation of this Hospital Destination Guideline should be made by the diverting physician on a recorded line.
- The patient's caregiver retains the right to refuse a diversion. In these cases notify the receiving hospital that the diversion was refused by caregiver, and have th caregiver sign a refusal declining the recommendation to divert to a more appropriate facility.
- Any ED can receive a pediatric patient that is in cardiac arrest or imminent arrest
- Any ED can receive a pediatric patient that is not severely ill and does not meet a specific patient type listed above.