By NEAL AUGENSTEIN
WTOP Radio (Washington, D.C.)
WASHINGTON — D.C. Fire and EMS will soon be implementing new procedures to help better assess patients. The revised procedures come almost one month after the death of former New York Times reporter David Rosenbaum, and the scrutiny of the treatment he received.
WTOP has learned that D.C. Fire and EMS is revising its Patient Care Report, a form paramedics have used to evaluate patients.
“We felt that it was needed to be updated to keep abreast of what’s going on with the patient at the time we are assessing him or her,” D.C. Fire and EMS Chief Adrian Thompson says.
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