EMERGENCY
MEDICAL SERVICES
24 Hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days
per year
Emergency care and transportation of injured
and ill persons; Transfer of patients from RFGH
to other facilities all over Maine
• State-of-the-art central
monitoring system. This has the ability to
transmit to the central station from the bedside.
Monitors heart rhythms and acquires 12-lead
EKG's.
• New transport ventilator, so that we
can better care for patients who are unable
to breathe on their own.
• A variety of specialty equipment to
help perform rescue and extrication tasks.
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 We
staff two ambulances around the clock, with the
capability of staffing a third if needed. We are
licensed at the paramedic level, which means that
we guarantee a paramedic on every emergency call.
RFEMS responds to approximately 3,000 calls per
year, covering the towns of Skowhegan, Norridgewock,
Mercer, Canaan, Cornville, Athens, Brighton and
Solon. We provide paramedic-level assistance to
the ambulance services that cover the greater
Bingham area and Harmony. Our staff consists of
26 professionals, most of who live in the community.
Our ambulances are very much like mini emergency
rooms. The assessments we provide, and the treatments
we render, are much like what a patient might
receive in the first 20 - 30 minutes that they
are in the emergency room. This is especially
true for calls that involve heart problems. Patients
can get initial treatment for their chest pain
right in their own homes, and that treatment is
continued during the transport to the hospital.
We carry an array of medications used to treat
cardiac problems. Because we have a paramedic
on every emergency call, we can administer pain-management
medications, anti-nausea medication, and medication
to manage allergic reactions and respiratory emergencies.
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