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Post by reppinthe6th on Mar 4, 2006 22:54:50 GMT -5
EMS is 80% of what we do yet 80% of our Depts want nothing to do with it sooo lets start sme discussion about this here.
1) How do you guys do EMS trainings? Does your dept do drills? Have lecturers come in? Ideas for stuff?
2) First Responder cars, do people ever use them? Also my department is goin to have an EMS Chief soon, is anyone else doing that?
3) I hear some Departments dont have EMS only membership, how CRAZY is that. We also need to start focusing recruitment on EMS people I think. Any ideas on how to do this?
4) The DREADED duty crew lol, come to oneof my Companies meeting and youll see how hated this is. But should assigned people ride ambulances at nite. Any thoughts on this?
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Post by mxboardin09 on Mar 4, 2006 23:05:55 GMT -5
Our dept has 4 companies, all separate but united under one department. One of the companies is our Fire Medic Company. I have no idea about their training, although I'm pretty sure they do company schools during their worknights etc, and all of their emt training is done through the county or state or outside classes. We have two first responder cars also, that are pretty frequently used, however sometimes I think that there aren't enough people to make them useful. For example, when the first responder goes to the scene and then they can't get a tech or driver to staff the ambulance. During the day we have paid maintenence men that also run ems calls. They also have duty crews, and they try to establish them as often as possible, and it seems like they often do have a duty crew, but I'm not positive on the exact ways the duty crews are run.
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Post by finster on Mar 4, 2006 23:40:50 GMT -5
Duty Crew system in Port Washington is fairly straight-forward. 24 hours is divided into 5 shifts: 6A-9A 9A-1P 1P-5P 5P-9P 9P-6A In theory, the minimum is a Driver and a Tech (E, CC or P) and the max is a crew of 4 (any combination so long minimum is met) Back in the 80s and even early 90s, you literally were wait-listed to join certain crews/shifts. People would often take a set number for the night (i.e., "the 3s: 3,13,23) or the 9's (9,19,29). It made your commitment easier to manage, because you knew those nights were spent at the firehouse. The duty system -does- work for EMS; so long as you can get the commitment from your members. I haven't been involved with FMCo since about '01, but in talking with folks still there, the commitment level seems to have dropped quite a bit around the duty system. Some of my closest friends to this day are people that I used to do duty with on a regular basis. It was something you looked forward to (Did Saturday 5p-9p for about 10 years.. looked forward to it every Saturday).. One of the cool things about the Duty system is that it gives the opportunity to guys not in the EMS company to get EMS experience. We had 6 regulars that would rotate in/out of the Saturday 5p-9p with us, and they were all guys from the Engine or Truck. Since we were max'd at 4 on the bus, often they would come down just to hang out, and would take turns riding on runs. Saturday nights would be come down at 5, check the rigs over, cook dinner, hangout, watch Cops at 8, and go out afterward. We were usually good for 2-3 runs in there too.. Our dept has 4 companies, all separate but united under one department. One of the companies is our Fire Medic Company. I have no idea about their training, although I'm pretty sure they do company schools during their worknights etc, and all of their emt training is done through the county or state or outside classes. We have two first responder cars also, that are pretty frequently used, however sometimes I think that there aren't enough people to make them useful. For example, when the first responder goes to the scene and then they can't get a tech or driver to staff the ambulance. During the day we have paid maintenence men that also run ems calls. They also have duty crews, and they try to establish them as often as possible, and it seems like they often do have a duty crew, but I'm not positive on the exact ways the duty crews are run. |
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Post by mxboardin09 on Mar 5, 2006 0:03:54 GMT -5
There ya go...thats how it works in Port, I wasn't sure...I haven't done any time on the duty crew considering I don't currently drive the ambulance and am not a tech.
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Post by nmfdt1 on Mar 5, 2006 0:24:21 GMT -5
I think our EMS call percent is literally 80%.
DUTY CREWS ----
Forces people to volunteer there time to the ambulance, instead of the same 20 individuals that run all the calls. However, do you really want people treating patients that dont want to be there and dont actively train/read in EMS? ... Also in my Department their are about 30 EMT/AMT, that would translate in approximate 7 hours a week AT least permember to cover all time periods. Thats alot of time and leaves each ambulance shift with only one technician.
EMS TRAININGS --
Monthly EMS trainings given by Senior EMS members, or Medical Director. N Merrick actively attends CME's across the county as they participate in the Pilot CME refresher program. CME's are often run at N Merrick HQ, if anyone wants notification of this PM me. Additionally if anyone is running EMS Trainings or CME's in their firehouse please let me know.
FIRST RESPONDER --
Excellent to have in service if you have the manpower. I can think of 3 incidences I was involved in last year in which the use of the 1st responder saved someones life, had they waited the extra 2-3 min's for an ambulance the results could have been very different.
Give incentives to people that use it.
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