Contract For New EMS Defibrillators Awarded
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Essex-Windsor EMS will purchase 60 new cardiac monitor defibrillators, replacing models that are now five years old.
County council authorized the purchase of the X Series monitor defibrillators from ZOLL Medical Inc. for $2 million plus HST following a thorough evaluation and testing of two models by Essex-Windsor EMS.
The devices are one of the most important tools used by paramedics, allowing them to:
- record and trend a patient’s vital signs
- input data into the ambulance patient care record
- complete diagnostic testing, such as 12-lead electrocardiograms
- transmit valuable patient information from the scene to hospital clinicians
- pace a patient’s heart to the correct rate
- defibrillate a heart in sudden cardiac arrest
