Contract For New EMS Defibrillators Awarded

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