EMS and Rescue Services

The Little Miami Joint Fire & Rescue District offers a variety of EMS and Rescue Services, including auto extrication, low angle rope rescue, and shoring of buildings. The Little Miami Joint Fire & Rescue District also provides Advanced Life Support (ALS) through our Paramedic Equipped Ambulances called Medic Units. ALS is provided by Paramedics (Emergency Medical Technician- Paramedic) and Basic Life Support (BLS) is provided by EMT’s (Emergency Medical Technician-Basic).

Rescue Services

Each engine is equipped with extrication equipment in the event of entrapment during an automobile crash.The equipment is utilized to remove the trapped victim from the vehicle. The vehicle is moved away from the victim by pushing, pulling, or cutting the entrapping metal. Tools include the “Jaws of Life” spreaders for pulling or spreading, Cutters, for cutting, Rams, for pushing, and a reciprocating saw for cutting. Each engine carries 4 inch X 4 inch X 24 inch wood (cribbing) to stabilize vehicles and prevent injury causing movement to both patient and rescuer. Additional tools are available to disable vehicle battery, remove windows, open engine compartment, and containment of hazardous material spills (oil, gasoline, and antifreeze).

Each station also has rope rescue equipment for low angle (embankment) rescues. Equipment includes, life safety rope, carabineers, rack descending device, and class II harnesses, and Stokes basket for victim transport.

Rescue 66 is equipped with shoring equipment to secure building after a load bearing wall has been damaged.

Basic Life Support

Basic Life Support is exactly as its name implies basic life saving skills. BLS treatment includes bleeding control, splinting of bones and joints, spinal immobilization, vital sign assessment, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), insertion of airway adjuncts, and comforting patient during care. Oxygen is the only “drug” BLS providers may administer.

Advanced Life Support

ALS includes all of the skills of BLS plus additional skills and life saving devices. ALS providers may start intravenous lines (IV’s), utilize cardiac monitor/defibrillators, administration of cardiac, respiratory, and additional medications. Medications can be administered through IV, intramuscular injection (IM, injection into muscle tissue), subcutaneous injection (SC, injection into fatty layer of skin), orally, or inhaled. Paramedics are trained in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).This class, taken by doctors, nurses, and paramedics, teaches the treatment of life threatening cardiac emergencies.This allows paramedics to treat these symptoms on scene or en route to the hospital.

Ambulances are like hospitals

Many of the things that you would find in the emergency room of a hospital are very similar to those used in ALS, only in a more mobile form. A few of those items are:

  • Blood pressure cuff

  • EKG monitor

  • External Pacemaker

  • Cervical Collars

  • Oxygen

  • Small rescue equipment

  • Stethoscope

  • Medications

  • Back Boards

  • Car seat for transporting children

 

Common Terms

Medic: Paramedic
Medic Unit: ALS Equipped Ambulance
Cardiac Monitor: 3 Lead or 12 lead cardiac monitor views the electric impulses during contraction and relaxation of the heart muscle. It is used to identify life threatening and non-life threatening heart rhythms.Defibrillator usually attached.
Defibrillator: Device used to administer an electrical shock to treat life threatening cardiac rhythms.


Life Pack 12 monitor/defibrillator

IV: Insertion of a catheter into a vein for administration of fluids and/or medications. Sublingual: Administration of medication under the tongue.
Splinting: Immobilization of an injury to prevent further movement.


Application of Leg Splint


Leg immobulized for transport

C-spine: Cervical Spine- neck.
Spinal Immobilization: Splinting of head, neck, and back to prevent injury to spinal cord. Splinting includes c-collar, long backboard with straps, and head immobilizers. This is utilized for auto accidents, falls, and other traumatic injuries where spinal injury is suspected.

 

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