Medical Emergency Preparedness Check List for Professional Meeting Planners

Medical emergencies will happen at meetings. Often the difference between life and death may be seconds or minutes. Relying on your meeting staff or calling "911" is not the only answer since few meeting venues are adequately trained or prepared and emergency medical support (EMS) response times and capabilities vary greatly venue to venue and destination to destination. With the expanse of many of today's mega-meeting places or at a resort golf course it can take more than 5 minutes to