Incident Management Procedure for the first aider
If you are called to assess a casualty;
- Keep calm and take control .Effective communication is essential.
- Ask people to wait before they take it upon themselves to call for ambulance assistance.
- Identify any dangers to yourself /casualty/other players and officials/crowd.
Attend to this first through assessment and bystander delegation.
- Keep the referee informed.
- Get history of the incident from casualty/players/match officials if you did not witness it yourself
- Evaluate casualty condition:
- Continue play
- Stop play - casualty walks off pitch
- Stop play - casualty is carried off by stretcher with ambulance staff in attendance.
NOTE-this requires a certificate in 'Casualty handling'and is not a standard part of the standard first aid
qualifications. If the casualty needs a stretcher, then an ambulance should be called for, unless a
medical organisation is present with the correct qualified staff and equipment to move the casualty.
- Referral to parent for head injury, give head injury advice form.
- Referral to doctor with parent for medical condition.
- Referral to hospital with parent providing transport.
- Referral to hospital with ambulance
If you decide that the injured player should not be moved, the referee is responsible for moving the match off pitch to another to avoid waiting and game delays.
Nominate and appoint responsibility to bystanders and match officials to do the following:
- If continuing the game on same pitch whilst waiting ensure players kept away, warm and active. Arrange coach to counsel them if they are worried about team mate.
- Assist with casualty movement if safe to do so.
- Call for an ambulance, if appropriate (See 999 Call Sheet)
- Ensure someone is despatched to entrance to meet ambulance and prevent further cars entering and impeding access/exit for ambulance .
- Move obstacles such as parked cars and ensure clear access before emergency vehicles arrive.
- Fill out the Injury Report Book in accordance with your instructions, whilst you are busy with first aid treatment and to record your observations.
- Ensure observations are given to doctor and ambulance crew on scene.
- Make sure ambulance crew have your contact details if they need to clarify anything later.
- Ensure NOK details are taken in order to follow up any medical intervention.
- Contact Rachael O'Brien and inform her of the incident and action taken.