La plupart d'entre vous savez que jusqu'à tout récemment, US avait des automobiles avec des docs à l'intérieur pour prodiguer l'ALS à Montréal et Laval.
Avec la venue des équipes TA Soins Avancés (TASA), US a déplacé les docs dans les ambulances, avec les TASA. Donc plus d'automobile (sauf pour les superviseurs). Or voiçi que Toronto EMS va instaurer des véhicules d'interception pour ses paramédics (je vous laisse le loisir de lire l'article pour les détails), pour pouvoir libérer les médics ALS plus rapidement. Cependant, les médics seront seuls abord. Ce qui ne m'inspire pas, bien évidemment. Sécurité, techniques de travail, etc. À moins bien sûr que l'on décide de relocalisé les cas de SST et incapacité permanente!!!! Salutations Stéphan Gascon http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035775252282&call_pageid=968350130169&col=969483202845 Compact ambulances built for speed Cars expected to reduce response times Units will help regular vehicles at peak hours KERRY GILLESPIE CITY HALL BUREAU Size not only matters, it could save lives when it comes to Toronto's newest ambulances. The six Ford Crown Victorias that started their rounds yesterday are smaller than regular ambulances, but their trunks are packed with the same life-saving gear. And their smaller size is expected to get them to emergencies faster. In Toronto, an ambulance currently gets to a potentially life-threatening call in less than nine minutes, 75 per cent of the time. The goal is 90 per cent. These six cars — and 12 Chevy Tahoe sport utility vehicles that are on the way — will help reach that goal, Ron Kelusky, general manager of Toronto Emergency Medical Services, said yesterday. The vehicles, manned by just one paramedic, are cheaper to run and cost about $55,000 less to buy and equip than a big, boxy ambulance. That means more can be put on the road for the same price. They can get around back streets and through traffic more easily and because they don't transport patients to hospital, they don't get stuck waiting at emergency wards, Kelusky said. All 18 of the new vehicles and 30 additional paramedics will be on the streets by next March under the program funded by the city and province. In August, Health Minister Tony Clement announced $32.5 million to improve ambulance response times across Ontario. It was left up to municipalities to propose how best to use the money. Toronto's idea was emergency response units. Actually, it was John Dean's idea in 1979. Dean, the former commissioner of Metro Ambulance, turned six Jeeps into ambulances during a budget crunch when he needed more paramedics on the road but didn't have enough money. "I think we were the first people anywhere to do the single-paramedic response vehicles," Dean said yesterday. Metro Ambulance, now Toronto Emergency Medical Services, has kept Dean's program going ever since; five Jeep Cherokee emergency response vehicles are on the streets. The paramedics in these vehicles work during peak hours in the busiest sectors of the city and respond only to the most serious calls. They get to the scene quickly, assess the patient, begin treatment and let the dispatcher know what's up. If the patient must go to hospital, they will be taken in a regular ambulance; if they don't, the paramedic on the scene will cancel that ambulance, freeing it for another call. "Don't let the size of these vehicles deceive you," Clement said yesterday. "Paramedics at the scene will have access to the same life-saving equipment, save the stretcher." Under the program, the province paid the $1.3 million to purchase and equip the vehicles — about $75,000 per vehicle — and has agreed to pay half the $2.3 million annual operating cost. The units will supplement the fleet of approximately 90 ambulances during peak hours. As with regular ambulances, a paramedic with a backpack full of supplies and equipment will start treating the patient. "What's in an ambulance is here, it's just been compressed," said Frank Hurlehey, the paramedic who designed the new vehicles. ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --- SMU-L Le petit compendium 2003 - Guide de reference sur les medicaments en comprimes et par inhalation (+ de 1150 medicaments; reference C.P.S. 2003). Cout: $10.00 l'unite, $1.00 sera remis a une fondation pour enfants malades. Courriel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site web: www.urgence.qc.ca/compendium
