PreHospital
Prehospital Chair
Ryan Ramsey, MD
Georgetown Fire Department
Prehospital Vice Chair
Nick Moore, BS, LP
Williamson County EMS
Responsibilities
- Focus on performance improvement of prehospital response, treatment, and transport, as well as DSHS RAC Assessment Criteria
- Monitor and develop regional systems for patient care and transport among pre-hospital care providers (including ground and air medical providers)
- Enhance relationships with regional healthcare partners to efficiently maintain continuity care for patients
- Develop common communications criteria, including patient report and handoff
- Develop and review annually regional guidelines for pre-hospital care
- Development of plans for pre-hospital care using Whole Blood
Workgroups
Whole Blood Workgroup Chair
Joshua Todd
Division Chief | Austin Travis County EMS
Mission:
To ensure all hospitals, EMS agencies, and blood banks in the CATRAC region are communicating, collaborating, cooperating, and all moving toward a regional goal of providing life-saving whole blood to all patients with life-threatening hemorrhage at the earliest possible time of intervention, and ensuring the highest quality of care to those patients.
Vision:
To ensure all patients in the CATRAC region have access to life-saving whole blood for life-threatening hemorrhage at the earliest possible point of care.
EMS Medical Directors Workgroup Chair
Taylor Ratcliff, MD
Medical Director Williamson County EMS, Marble Falls Area EMS, Travis County STAR Flight
Air Medical Workgroup
Lynn Lail
Director of Strategic Initiatives and Government Relations, CareFlite
Mission
To work collaboratively with each other, and our hospital & EMS partners, to provide safe, efficient, patient centered, evidence based, critical care transport to all who are critically ill or injured in the CATRAC region, through transparency and quality improvement processes.