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Saving lives with emergency medical dispatch
9-1-1 in the Classroom, Training | Greg | July 22, 2009 at 7:53 am
Police dispatchers in Rockland, Putnam and Westchester counties in New York are making a difference using medical protocols to assist callers.
A recent article in The Journal News profiles agencies using Emergency Medical Dispatch and how it’s helping them offer life-saving assistance in emergencies.
In the past two months, Westchester County police dispatchers have helped people with no medical training revive two heart attack victims by talking them through CPR, said Anthony Sutton, the county’s emergency services coordinator.
“Those two people are walking around today because of EMD,” Sutton said. “It really is the difference between life and death.”
Tags: EMD, ems, Protocols, Training
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