FIRE/EMS OPERATIONS

EMS OPERATIONS

Emergency Medical Services in Miami Township is corner stoned by professional paramedics and EMT's. Part time EMT's and paramedics supplement the fulltime staff. Thirteen fulltime employees are assigned to each of three 24 on/48 off crews, one of which is the shift captain. The central station houses three administrative officers on the weekdays. The north and south stations each have a weekday captain to supplement staffing.

Miami Township maintains two paramedics per ambulance and generally have each engine company staffed with two paramedics. Engine companies respond with ambulances to EMS calls when the dispatch nature indicates a possible critical patient and when the primary district ambulance it out of station. All engines carry a full compliment of paramedic equipment.

Paramedics pride themselves on aggressive training and the state of the art protocol we operate under. Our protocol is in line with the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care guidelines released in mid 2000.

The highlights of our program are as follows;

12 Lead acquisition and interpretation training program

Aggressive Acute Coronary Syndromes (Chest Pain) protocol

Ambitious Respiratory Care protocols

Airway control utilizing multiple advanced airway procedures

Including Blind Nasotracheal Intubation and

Rapid Sequence Intubation with paralytics

Zealous Pain Management program

Our pharmacy list includes the following:

Atrovent, Solumedrol, Etomidate, Succinylcholine, Norcuron, Vasopressin, Amiodarone

Our Medical Control process includes the following:

Physician Medical Director who meets with us monthly and reviews 10-15% of run reports on random audit

A Continuous Quality Improvement committee that meets monthly and reviews every run report completed

Weekly EMS training topics

Monthly trainings that alternate between fire and EMS topics

Quarterly trainings that alternate between fire and EMS topics

Annual Acuity testing that includes a written exam and practical stations

Patient response cards are sent to 10% of our patients requesting a rating for our service in 6 key areas.