Personnel may no longer use their own cameras for EMS incidents, now that the department is providing cameras on the CF-20 Toughbooks. The overall process is two-fold:

1. Take the picture (saved in the Windows My Pictures folder).
2. Attach to the eMEDS patient report (optional, as you may also just show hospital personnel the picture from the Windows folder instead)

Note: You may only use the CF-20’s camera for an incident if it is specifically for patient care (i.e., to show hospital personnel items such as auto accidents, medication lists, etc). Additionally, please note that you are not permitted to take video — only photos. One final point: Each picture will be wiped from the folder automatically, 24 hours after it is saved to the Windows folder.

To take a picture with the Toughbook:

• Click the Menu button, located at the bottom of the screen (next to the Validate button).
• Click the Attachments button.
• Click the Add New button.
• Expand the Document Type drop-down list and select Other Picture/Graphic.
• Click either the Take Picture button (to take the photo then and there) or the Browse button to navigate to a saved photo. (For the former, tap the screen to take the picture. For the latter, select the saved photo and tap the Open button).
• Click the two successive OK buttons.

The CF-20 Toughbook comes with a scanner that may be used in eMEDS reports. (Use it for triage tags and drivers’ licenses smoothly!)

To activate the scanner:

• Press the A2 button, located below the tablet screen and above the Release switch.
• Locate the scanner at the top of the tablet, just to the right side of the middle of the tablet.

You have just been handed the CF-20 for your eMEDS reports and you’ve been told that you must use attached stylus pen instead of your own pen.

(By the way: You must use the built-in stylus pen and not your own pen.)

Knowing we are limited in pens (by the way, we are limited in stylus pens, so please do not break your pen), you want to know the correct way to dock and undock your pen.

Undocking the Stylus Pen:

The pen snaps out. Just pull the pen out by the attached cord. The pen and cord are located on the right side of the machine.

Docking the Stylus Pen:

• Point the pen with the tip up, parallel to the top of the tablet (so that the Word Toughbook is above and to the right of the screen).
• Insert the tip into the groove so that the pen angles toward the tablet’s reserved pen space while keeping the bottom of the pen farther out from the tablet.
• Move the tip up as far as it will go without forcing it.
• Snap the bottom of the pen into place.

Note: If the above steps go smoothly, you have docked the pen successfully. If you feel like you need to force the pen at any time, you are not docking the pen correctly. here is the pen, before docking and after docking: