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Drone-enhanced Emergency Medical Services (DEMS) involve the use of highly autonomous Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drones to deliver critical medical supplies, such as Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), life-saving medications, and remote diagnostic equipment, directly to emergency situations.
Equipment and procedures are necessarily limited in the pre-hospital environment, and EMS professionals are trained to follow a formal and carefully designed decision tree (more commonly referred to as a "protocol") which has been approved by Medical Control. This protocol helps ensure a consistent approach to the most common types of ...
Bags of medical supplies and defibrillators at the York Region EMS Logistics Headquarters in Ontario, Canada Many systems have tiers of response for medical emergencies. For example, a common arrangement in the United States is that fire engines or volunteers are sent to provide a rapid initial response to a medical emergency, while an ...
EMS logistical support units (LSU) carry medical supplies for use in mass-casualty incidents, as well as two generators, lights, a command tent and an inflatable tent. Haz-Tac officers are rescue paramedics that respond alongside Haz-Tac and rescue ambulances as the medical component of the FDNY Special Operations Command.
Typically, out-of-hospital medical care is provided to the patient during the transport. Ambulances are used to respond to medical emergencies by emergency medical services (EMS), and can rapidly transport paramedics and other first responders, carry equipment for administering emergency care, and transport patients to hospital or other ...
Diagram of a Kendrick extrication device. A Kendrick extrication device (KED) is a device used in extrication of victims of traffic collisions from motor vehicles.Commonly carried on ambulances, a KED is typically used by an emergency medical technician, paramedic, or another first responder.