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Passing ‘Fast’ for ‘Appropriate’ Responses

High Performance EMS

One of the more challenging issues that has become as endemic as the disease itself is the recruitment and retention of EMS professionals. With expected delays beyond that time limit, it may be acceptable to dispatch a BLS unit to begin care while still allowing the ALS resource to join the response from a longer distance.

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Optimizing Demand Forecasts

High Performance EMS

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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