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Wish List 2023
Wish List 2023
Battery-Powered Hydraulic Rescue Tools
Battery Powered Hydraulic rescue tools are essential for our work as a rescue service. The portability offered by utilizing new-age cordless equipment allows our crews improved flexibility on rescue scenes along with an update to aging equipment. As it stands, we are assessing the purchases of new hydraulic spreaders, hydraulic cutters and hydraulic ram systems, all of which are integral tools in a multitude of rescue disciplines.
Ruggedized Tablets
In the process of providing care in the field, accurate and rapid documentation is imperative to recording the services we provide. One of the primary tools we utilize for this purpose are portable tablet computers. The computers we use need to be ruggedized to operate in the austere environments we work in daily. As it stands, the complete kit to outfit one of these tablets is $1,200, covering the cost of the computer, case and keyboard.
Zoll Z Vents
In the course of providing emergency care, some patients require assistance with their breathing or require complete machines to breathe for them. The Zoll Z Ventilator is on the cutting edge of portable ventilators, and is specifically designed for the pre-hospital environment. We have acquired one of these ventilators for our service and have found great results with its use, but at over $10,000 per unit the cost to further outfit our service poses a barrier to furthering our capabilities. It is our goal to place one of these units in all of our medic units as funding allows.
A/V Retrofit of Conference Room
An aim in the near future is to improve our conference room with improved technology to aid in conducting our meetings internally and with outside agencies and public groups. We plan to retrofit our projector screen with a smart board and upgrade the computer system in the room that we use to present various topics and plan the continual improvement of care that we strive for.
Portable Radios
We are currently assessing an upgrade to the portable radios that are provided to on-duty crews. As our current radios phase out and wear out, we have aimed to replace our fleet with a set of Motorola APX 6000 XE radios, which bring a suite of features, notable reliability and long battery life. With this upgrade we hope to maintain the equipment that we use daily for our mission-critical communication.
Facility Improvements
In public safety, our stations become second homes. In the same way that any home needs occasional upgrades and maintenance, our facilities have needs that have remained unattended due to funding. Of the planned repairs, we aim to fix broken areas of our parking pad, correct shorted outdoor lighting fixtures, repair retaining walls, fix large holes in our sidewalk, trim overgrown trees, and improve signage identifying our station. As our funding allows, we plan to prioritize and correct each of these issues to allow us a workspace for our day to day operations.
IV Pump
To further our medical capabilities, Ross/West View EMSA has been looking to acquire a set of IV Pumps, which would allow us to administer very specific measured doses of medication to patients. Doing so would improve our ability to provide high-quality, cutting edge prehospital care.