Are Your First Responders Running Too Many Calls?

[Guest guest]

Has anyone else seen the details of the Toronto EMS research presented at

NAEMSP annual meeting January 12th?

All I have found so far is review article in the February edition of EMS

Insider but they are saying Chief Alan Craig received a standing ovation and

proclaimed as absolutely elegant for his presentation and some interesting

conclusions are being made from his research of over 250,000 calls such as:

* Only 1.25% or 1 in 2,900 calls resulted in an opportunity for

critical FFR intervention prior to ambulance arrival.

* Realizing that in his urban system 50% of the calls ambulances

reaches the scene before a FFR unit.

* But if this model had been used, emergent FFR responses would have

been decreased by 82% in his system.

* Should FFR be done by vehicles other than large fire apparatus?

Excellent work and appears to me to just be the beginning into some very

interesting areas of research that could impact system design worldwide.

Jim<