Thank you, EMSI
2 October 2011EMSI is the corporation contracted by the state EMS folks to oversee EMS in my neck of the woods. Some time ago, they used money that’s “donated” by people who get traffic tickets to spread around a bunch of portable CO detectors, which is something that I was certain I’d thought up (but, of course, I was far too late).
For this, I thank them, for saving my wife’s life–or at least sparing her the agony of a crippling headache and a couple of hours in my ED.
A couple of days ago (though I only heard the story today–thank you, work schedule!) my wife was dispatched to an unresponsive person. A portable monitor went off the moment she entered the house, and as a result (after someone spent 30 seconds figuring out whether it was a false alarm or not) she was able to minimize her time in the house, thereby sparing her anything worse than a mild headache–when the fire department showed up, the levels were actually above the operating range of their meter (1600 ppm).
So thanks again, EMSI, for your visible commitment to provider safety.
That is very impressive. Portable CO monitors are pretty inexpensive these days, so it doesn’t seem at all out of the realm of possibility to attach one to a jumpbag. Was she carrying it on her person?
Her service has one attached to each jump bag’s strap. In fact, if you follow the link under the words “portable monitor” in the post, the picture in the linked post is one of them.