Sergeant Ashlee Gautreaux, creator and facilitator of a high school Emergency Telecommunicator Certification (ETC) program in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, talks about how the program came about and how it’s structured. She also discusses some unanticipated benefits to the community that have come from it. 

For Your Information: 
Learn more about the program here: https://www.ascensionschools.org/schools/high/career-technical-education 

Do you live in Ascension Parish? Apply to become a dispatcher here: https://ascensionsheriff.com/join-our-team

Teaching Dispatch to Teens with Sergeant Ashlee Gautreaux

Isabel Gardett talks with Brett Patterson, the chair of the Medical Council of Standards for the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch. They discuss the why and how of getting involved with research, what it means that a dispatch system is “evidence-based,” and how to enact change to protocols using research.

For Your Information:
Sepsis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepsis)

ABCs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_(medicine))

AHA (http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/)

Hypoxic seizure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_hypoxia)

W. Edwards Deming, Some Theory of Sampling (https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Sampling-William-Edwards-Deming/dp/048664684X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505500418&sr=1-4&refinements=p_lbr_one_browse-bin%3AW.+Edwards+Deming)

W. Edwards Deming, Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position (https://www.amazon.com/Quality-Productivity-Competitive-Position-Edwards/dp/0911379002/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8)

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Teaching Dispatch to Teens with Sergeant Ashlee Gautreaux

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