Emergency Medical Services

The use of UVGI in the fire station environment for sanitizing and decontamination has several attractive features. UVGI light is clean and green (no potentially harmful chemicals that require special use and protective equipment). There are no dangerous odors or residues from harsh cleaning agents to affect staff or patients and offers decontaminated spaces can immediately be reoccupied (less downtime for ambulances).

Do you ever look at a piece of clothing's label and see, "one size fits all" and think, really? We all know that there's no such thing as one size fits all for most clothing and the same can be said for EMS gear bags.

Rare is the patient who walks to the ambulance; here's a look at products that can save firefighters and EMTs from aggravation and injury when carting patients to the rig.

They are cheap, compact and disposable; these quick medic kits are simple to build and carry on every apparatus.

Many fire departments carry an automated external defibrillator on a first-due rig. These portable electronic device automatically diagnoses the potentially life threatening cardiac arrhythmias of ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia in a patient and is able to treat them through defibrillation, the application of electrical therapy which stops the arrhythmia, allowing the heart to re-establish an effective rhythm.