EMT Assistant for the Palm OS

Getting Started

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There is an emergency, but fortunately, you've got your Palm in your pocket. Tap the EMT icon.

Tap the icon
You should be seeing this screen
Good. No time to loose, remember, this is an emergency!
Tap the "New Incident" button.

A new incident is created,
you have to give it a title.
It is defaulted to the incident
creation date & time.
Drag the text to modify
Enter your own title, and click OK
It brings you back to the home page
Notice on the last screen above that the Home Page is now displaying the title of the current record. When filling all the different incident sections, you will always have to start from the Home Page, as we are going to see.
All the different sections are accessible through the menu.
In any Palm application, to access the menu, tap the menu button below your palm screen:

Due to their number, those sections have been dispatched to two menu entries, Data-1 and Data-2. This list of the sections is currently the following one:
Data-1 Data-2
We're going to walk through the different screens of those sections. Even if you have already entered some data for a given section, you can come back to it at any time, to review or modify what is there.

Incident General

 Sections List

This is the screen you should see.
It is a free field, you can enter
up to 255 characters
On this screen, as on all the next ones, clicking OK will validate your input, and write the data into the Palm database. Clicking Cancel will not consider your modification. The data will remain as they were when you entered the screen.

Level Service

 Sections List

This is the screen you should see.
It is a free field, you can enter
up to 255 characters
Same as before, this is a free field.

Incident Location

 Sections List

You have to provide address
and location type.
Address is a free field.
You can enter it on
several lines
The location type is a
drop-down list.
Pick up the right value in the list.

Not all the values are displayed at
once,
use the arrows in the list itself to
access values you would not see.
And click OK when done

Incident Vehicle

 Sections List

This is the screen you should see.
It is a free field, you can enter
up to 255 characters

Times

 Sections List

This is the screen you should see.
It is a free field, you can enter
up to 255 characters

Patient

 Sections List

This screen is in two parts:
Patient Data and Vitals.
Several Vitals can be entered
for the same Patient.
Fill out the Patient Data
Then, to create a Vitals paragraph,
hit the New button

A Time item is created
with the current time.
Notice next to the Del. button
the number of Vitals record
already entered, and
the one you're on.
Fill out your Vitals
Hit new again to create a new one
See how the number of records indicator
has changed. A new time has
also been generated.
The other fields can be modified,
but by default, the keep their
previous values.

Modify whatever has to be
changed.
BP changed too
You can use the arrows
to navigate from record
to record.

Notice the value of the
record position indicator
Whenever you come back to this screen, you will be placed automatically on the last entered Vitals.

Exam

 Sections List

This is the screen you should see.
For each exam, you can fill up the
text field on the right part.
The name is displayed as a
title.
Click on the A
Click on the M

Back to the S, fill it
up.
Fill up the A
If you get back to the S
what you've entered is still
there.
Choosing the exam in the left column gives you a 255 character field to enter your data.

Trauma / Arrest

 Sections List

This is the screen you should see.
Check the appropriate boxes.

Transportation

 Sections List

This is the screen you should see.
One drop-down list.
Select the list
Choose the value

And you're done.

Med / Proc / Treat

 Sections List

This is the screen you should see.
Check the appropriate boxes.

Med Vehicle

 Sections List

This is the screen you should see.
It is a free field, you can enter
up to 255 characters

Insurance / User

 Sections List

This is the screen you should see.
Fill up the appropriate fields

Known Bugs

Advanced Topics

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So far, we've used only the New Incident button from the home page. We're going to play with the other ones.

Reviewing and Modifying your Incidents

The EMT assistant provides the possibility to enter several incidents in the same database, fortunately!
You might want to review or modify (or even delete) the incidents you've entered. To do so, you're going to use the Browse Database button, to navigate to the record you want to work on.

Cleaning Up

Once you've uploaded the data on the PC (see next step), you might want to clean up your Palm, to remove the data, and save some space.
To do so, use the Erase All Data or Drop Database button. They both have the same effect, the second one being faster, in case you have a big amount of data on your Palm.

Synchronizing with the PC

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This requires a Palm Conduit (provided) to be installed on the PC to synchronize the Palm with. A conduit is a piece of software that reads the Palm database, and uploads it to the PC. This is triggerred during the synchronization process, just like for your addresses, todo list, agenda, etc.
The EMT Assistant comes with its own Conduit, for you to upload the data you've entered on the Palm to the PC. After doing so, you can modify or rework the data, edit a report, etc, from the PC.

Generating the Report

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Several formats are available, pdf (acrobat) or Word (Microsoft).
The Word format can be reworked and edited, as opposed to the pdf one, but the pdf can be read on mostly any system, as opposed to Word that is only good for Windows.

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