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Passing ‘Fast’ for ‘Appropriate’ Responses

High Performance EMS

As more agencies move from exclusive ALS capabilities to tiered responses, there must also be a growing concern with ensuring the most appropriate resources are responding to each call. A Bravo request could be most efficiently served in a BLS capacity with longer response times before it would be deemed late.

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Optimizing Demand Forecasts

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Figure 2 Sample data demonstrating ALS (green) and BLS (blue) call volume comparisons by hour-of-the-day and day-of-the-week. Part of his justification is the average busy time of a unit being about an hour and to simplify the calculation of a Unit Hour Utilization (UHU).

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