Jun 12, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 15 segments
Summary This episode features Dr. Tim Chizmar discussing recent updates to Maryland EMS protocols, including new treatments for seizures, stroke, hypertensive emergencies, and trauma. Learn about…
Timothy ChizmarGuestJoshHostMustafaHostOkay.
So looking at some of the stuff we've got, I want to hit real quick.
We talked about with Dr. Anders.
And if you guys don't listen to that episode, definitely listen to it.
We'll hit it there a little bit more in depth there, but, Once again, the Abuse and Neglect Protocol has a big change that involves that regardless of if someone else is reporting the incident or not, if you encounter child or vulnerable adult abuse and neglect, we need to call a singular number.
And that's going to be, it's in the protocols and protocols.
As Dr. Anders explained, it's kind of a collection point of all the phone calls so that we don't have to, as clinicians, figure out who exactly we need to call because maybe our incident crosses county lines, state lines, different municipal lines, where maybe there's a city agency because they live in the city, but the incident happened in the county, vice versa.
And then they will figure out who to call.
And then you need to file.
Oh, wow.
follow your individual agency protocols on this as well.
So if they're saying that you need to call a specific number as well, then you need to do that afterwards.
But Call a number that is in the protocols and follow that, and then follow your own agency's protocols.
Hopefully this is going to make things a little bit more simplified with reporting these, and there's not going to be things that are lost between the cracks.
One other thing that I want to emphasize, and Doc, you might be able to give a little bit more clarity to this, Dr. Anders did as well.
It is a privilege that we have that other people that are mandated reporters don't have this privilege because we are seeing firsthand some of these situations, these environments that we're finding these patients in.
And we have a better understanding of what's going on instead of being maybe a second or a third party reporter.
We are the first party.
We are the ones seeing what's going on.
So we can tell that agency, no, we do want an investigation to happen and not have it be on them to figure out if a full-fledged investigation happens.
Okay.
So looking at some of the stuff we've got, I want to hit real quick.
We talked about with Dr. Anders.
And if you guys don't listen to that episode, definitely listen to it.
We'll hit it there a little bit more in depth there, but, Once again, the Abuse and Neglect Protocol has a big change that involves that regardless of if someone else is reporting the incident or not, if you encounter child or vulnerable adult abuse and neglect, we need to call a singular number.
And that's going to be, it's in the protocols and protocols.
As Dr. Anders explained, it's kind of a collection point of all the phone calls so that we don't have to, as clinicians, figure out who exactly we need to call because maybe our incident crosses county lines, state lines, different municipal lines, where maybe there's a city agency because they live in the city, but the incident happened in the county, vice versa.
And then they will figure out who to call.
And then you need to file.
Oh, wow.
follow your individual agency protocols on this as well.
So if they're saying that you need to call a specific number as well, then you need to do that afterwards.
But Call a number that is in the protocols and follow that, and then follow your own agency's protocols.
Hopefully this is going to make things a little bit more simplified with reporting these, and there's not going to be things that are lost between the cracks.
One other thing that I want to emphasize, and Doc, you might be able to give a little bit more clarity to this, Dr. Anders did as well.
It is a privilege that we have that other people that are mandated reporters don't have this privilege because we are seeing firsthand some of these situations, these environments that we're finding these patients in.
And we have a better understanding of what's going on instead of being maybe a second or a third party reporter.
We are the first party.
We are the ones seeing what's going on.
So we can tell that agency, no, we do want an investigation to happen and not have it be on them to figure out if a full-fledged investigation happens.
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