Emergencies

The providers at College Park Family Care Center rotate emergency calls so that someone from our practice is available to care for you 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. If you have a non-life-threatening emergency any time, day or night, we suggest you call the office where you are normally seen.

A minor emergency such as a sprain, broken bone, fever or stomach pain, can probably be treated in the office. In an effort to provide cost-effective, quality care, your personal physician reserves time each day to take care of these minor emergencies. College Park Family Care Center is fully equipped to repair lacerations, fractures, perform minor surgery and treat minor trauma in the office.

If the emergency is after hours, our staff will notify the provider on-call. Your call will be returned promptly.

College Park Family Care Center also operates an urgent care walk-in clinic Monday through Thursday from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The urgent care clinic is located at the Overland Park Office (see [locations]), and a regularly scheduled appointment is not needed.

SOME FIRST AID HELP

FIRST AID FOR CHOKING

For Conscious Victim:

If victim can cough, speak, or breathe... Do Not Interfere!

If Victim cannot cough, speak, or breathe, have someone call for help! Phone 911.

TAKE ACTION!

PERFORM THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER

Perform Abdominal Thrusts:

1. Stand behind the victim

2. Wrap arms around victim's waist

3. Make a fist w/one hand and place the thumb side against victim's abdomen in the midline slightly above the navel and well below the tip of the xiphoid

4. Grasp fist w/the other hand

5. Press into the victim's abdomen w/quick upward thrusts

Each thrust should be distinct and delivered with the intent of relieving the airway obstruction

No pressure should be exerted against the rib cage w/the rescuer's forearms

Repeat thrusts until object is expelled or the victim becomes unconscious

CAUTION: Abdominal thrusts may cause injury Do not practice on people

WHEN BREATHING STOPS

1.Check for Unresponsiveness; tap or gently shake victim; shout "are you okay?"

2.Shout, "Help" to get attention of people who can phone for help.

3.Position the victim on his/her back, roll the victim toward you by pulling slowly and evenly from the victim's hip and shoulder.

4.Open the Airway; tilt head back and lift chin with the fingers under bony part of jaw.

5.Check for Breathlessness; look, listen, and feel for breathing for 3-5 seconds.

6.Give Two Full Breaths; keep head tilited back, pinch nose, seal your lips tightly around the victim's mouth, give 2 full breaths for 1-1 1/2 seconds each.

7.Check for Pulse at Side of Neck; keep head tilted back, feel for carotid pulse for 5-10 seconds.

8.Phone EMS System for Help; send someone to call an ambulance, send 2 people if possible, give location of emergency and condition of victim.

9.Begin Rescue Breathing; keep head tilted back, pinch nose, give 1 breath every 5 seconds, look ,listen, and feel for breathing between breaths.

10.Check Pulse Every Minute; keep head tilted back, feel for carotid pulse for 5-10 seconds, if victim has pulse but is not breathing, continue rescue breathing.