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Sponsored Content: RIGLOO
By: Robert Avsec, Executive Fire Officer
Since the advent of prehospital care, regardless of the country, pre-hospital patient care providers (e.g., EMTs, paramedics., firefighters, rescue technicians) have lamented the fact that their ability to provide the necessary patient care was different because they worked in an uncontrolled environment, unlike those health care providers in the Emergency Department. And, truth be known, probably just as many of those pre-hospital patient care providers viewed the situation as a “Badge of Honor.”
But that’s about to change dramatically with the introduction of the RESCUER from RIGLOO. Because the innovative and groundbreaking RESCUER is the game changer that’s going to enable pre-hospital patient care providers worldwide to control their environment.
The RESCUER is a lightweight and rapidly deployable shelter that provides you with the capability to protect you, your patient, and your equipment from the elements while you do your job, providing quality pre-hospital patient care.
The RESCUER can be deployed safely, affectively, and quickly by one provider without having to move the patient. That’s right, you can begin to control your environment even as you begin your initial patient assessment. Just inflate the RESCUER, detach the floor, and lower it over your patient. It’s that easy!
But that’s just the beginning, as the RESCUER provides several significant improvements to your emergency response. Let’s look at what the RESCUER has to offer your pre-hospital patient care providers.
1. IMPROVED PATIENT CARE
Doesn’t your ability to provide quality pre-hospital patient care improve once you get your patient into your ambulance? Why is that? A big part of it is that once you and your patient are safely in the ambulance’s patient care compartment you’re now in a controlled environment. You’re not subject to the elements or prying eyes or noise. It’s just you and your patient and they have your full attention.
And that’s exactly what the RESCUER provides (without the heater or air conditioning, of course). And it’s small enough to be portable and easily put into use, but big enough for you, your patient, and all your gear.
2. PROTECT YOUR PATIENT’S PRIVACY
Today there are no such thing as bystanders or passing motorists. Everyone is a videographer due to their camera phones, and social media. In many cases they are working before you even reach your patient. With the RESCUER, you quickly can put an effective barrier between those cameras and your patience and shield them from those prying eyes.
3. PROTECT YOUR REPUTATION
Just as importantly, the RESCUER provides a barrier from those recorders as you go about the important task of patient care without worrying about “Monday morning quarterbacks” criticizing your every patient care decision or action on social media. And you just know they’re out there!
4. PROTECT YOUR EQUIPMENT
Who hasn’t been faced with trying to do your job providing patient care while contending with rain or snow or blowing wind and dust that’s getting into your medical aid kits and drug boxes? Those exposures that not only hinder your ability to provide high quality pre-hospital patient care, but they also create additional work for you before you can return to service. You must clean or dry out that equipment and replace contaminated or waterlogged supplies, right?
With the RESCUER, those worries are a thing of the past because by quickly deploying the RESCUER you gain control of the environment and that means PROTECTION from those environmental threats to you and your patient and your EQUIPMENT!
5. REDUCE EVERYONE’S ANXIETY LEVEL
Nothing likely gets everyone on the emergency scene anxious like waiting for additional ambulances to arrive (for multiple patient incidents) or waiting for the landing of a medevac helicopter, right? With the RESCUER, both you and your patient can rest easier because the RESCUER provides a safe and secure shelter while you wait for the “cavalry” to arrive.
6. PROTECTION FOR YOU AND YOUR PATIENT WHERE YOU NEED IT
As we learned during the AIDS outbreak in the 1990’s, if medical personal protective equipment (e.g., gloves, eyewear, and gowns) isn’t readily available to pre-hospital providers at the point of patient contact, odds were that it wouldn’t be used. The size and weight of the RESCUER means it can be part of every ambulance’s equipment cash and ready for deployment upon making patient contact.
With all that the RESCUER can give your medical response agency, shouldn’t it be part of your emergency response package?
For More Information, visit the RIGLOO website at www.rigloo-rs.com
