ambulances firegeezer on 30 Jul 2007 01:49 pm
Proposed Solution For Poor Ambulance Response Times
THERE HAS BEEN A LOT IN THE NEWS LATELY about some areas of the world suffering from poor response times by their emergency ambulance services.
In England they have tried putting paramedics on motorcycles, while up in Scotland they are using bicycles. Down in Australia they just extended the “acceptable” response time to 15 minutes. And in Montreal they just gave up on it because the hospitals wouldn’t release the ambulance cots to go on another call.
But the spirit of innovation always finds a solution to all problems. There is now a proposed method that will drastically cut down on the response times and it has another side benefit. With this new system all those crossover firefighters who have been grumbling about having to pull EMS duty will now be getting in line and begging for the opportunity to drive the……….
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on 31 Jul 2007 at 9:49 am 1.Kobersteen said …
Maybe this will encourage the fire service to embrace EMS?
