EMS Protocol of the Week - Abdominal Pain / Severe Nausea / Severe Vomiting (Adult and Pediatric)

Belly problems? Have we got a protocol for you! 

Not a ton to this week’s protocol – patients in severe abdominal pain will be kept NPO at all EMS provider levels, and paramedics can give a dose of ondansetron by Standing Order as needed – with a reminder to check an EKG, both for QT prolongation and for possible cardiac etiologies of the abdominal pain. Remember that there is a separate pain management protocol available for patients requiring prehospital analgesia.

That’s it for this week, hope you were all able to…stomach it?

www.nycremsco.org and the protocol binder for more

Dave