meteoric rise of the Stryker brand of ambulance stretchers is due to the outstanding quality and service Stryker provided versus its competitors. Brand loyalty interview: the brand and its competition I interviewed Pat Crowe assistant Director of Cheboygan Life Support Systems Inc. He has been a paramedic for over twenty years. When he started working as an emergency medical technician in the late eighties each ambulance was equipped with a Ferno ambulance stretcher. Ferno stretchers were the
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wreckage. However‚ few have ever seen a truly horrific‚ heavily gory accident in which a Medivac helicopter has come to rush victims off to safety. Air-medical transport saves lives every day in a plethora of situations. Being a part of the Hawaii Air Ambulance team allows one to be the best pilot they could be in a field whose purpose is saving lives. To be an Emergency Response helicopter pilot requires an extensive amount of skills‚ certifications and experience. One must have good concentration skills
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In this report I am going to analyse the importance of inter-agency emergency planning for major incidents It is very important that public services work together and plan how to deal with major incidents‚ because it makes their job more efficient. They can get the job done quicker‚ because they know their roles and responsibilities‚ so not messing around‚ but doing their duties and run smoothly at the scene. Planning gives them opportunity to get more training so they will know their roles even
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distributing medical supplies‚ and an ambulance corps. Following the war‚ veterans began establishing volunteer life saving squads based on what skills they saw and used in combat. In 1865 civilian ambulance services began in the U.S. Back then ambulances were horsedrawn carriages drivin by hospital interns. During the 1920 ’s hearses‚ which were the most commonly used‚ were replaced by fire departments‚ rescue squads and private ambulances. By 1969 modern emergency helicopter transport
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who is a fifty five year old female. DESCRIPTION Estelita was experiencing shortness of breath and chest pain. She called an ambulance‚ whereby a FRU car arrived‚ followed by a backup ambulance crew. The FRU responder performed a primary survey on Estelita‚ after which she was transported to the nearest hospital by the backup crew who made her walk to the ambulance at the start of the journey and on her arrival at A&E. FEELINGS My initial feelings towards the backup crew were of total disbelief
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agencies who may work together at the scene of an emergency incident Statutory and voluntary agencies: Statutory agencies are services like the police‚ fire and ambulance. These will always join an emergency incident. However at some incidents they will be helped by voluntary agencies like: St John Ambulance - St John Ambulance is a charitable organisation staffed by trained volunteers. The organisation responds to hundreds of emergency incidents (including major incidents) such as floods
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seeking alternate systems would be beneficial in several ways. An emergency medical service (EMS) has a limited number of ambulances available‚ based on the number of runs usually required per time of day‚ and considering the population it serves. At times all ambulance units are out on runs (i.e. service calls) and a true emergency 911 call comes in with no ambulance units available to respond until a unit clears its scene. The alternatives that are taken to avoid this event are‚ employees on
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Maggie Scott Mrs. Elizabeth Walker English Comp 1 January 31‚ 2013 Carelessness Causes Accidents Pulling up in our driveway from winning my first soccer game of the season‚ my mother and I jumped out of the car to go inside and celebrate the win. As we were walking to unlock the front door‚ we heard a screeching of tires across the hot pavement of a midsummer’s day. I turned my head to the scene of a fatal accident and screamed. When I witnessed this accident‚ a memory was created of the scene
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publishing company; 1995<br><li>Petroski‚ Henry; "To Engineer is Human"; MacMillan Publishing; 1985<br><li>Flowers‚ Stephen; "Software failure: management failure"; Chichester: John Wiley and Sons; 1996.<br><li>Report of the Inquiry into the London Ambulance Service; February 1993. <br><li>Simpson‚ Moira (1994); "999!: My computers stopped breathing !"; The Computer Law and Security Report‚ 10; March – April; pp 76-81<br><li>Dr. Dobbs Journal; January 1997 edition<br><li><a href="http://catless.ncl.ac
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first job I am going to describe is a Paramedic. A paramedic is often one of the first health care professionals on the scene of an accident of emergency. There is either one or two-person ambulance crew‚ alongside an emergency care assistant or ambulance technician to assist them. A paramedic works in the ambulance service‚ responding to all sorts of incidents‚ such as road accidents or sport injuries. They are trained well to make sure the patient is stable and taken to a hospital for treatment
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