On-Site Contract Emergency Medical Services

The Vendor is required to provide on-site contract emergency medical services provider to provide initial emergency medical response by administering first aid and providing medical attention to injured and ill zoo guests, employees, volunteers, visitors, agents, contractors, etc., during business hours as well as during special events held before and after hours at the zoo.
- Emergency medical technician (EMT)
• Ems personnel are responsible to adhere to the scope of practice while functioning as an EMT in county.
• EMT personnel arrive prior to an advanced life support (ALS) unit, they shall assess the patient and make appropriate care and transport decisions as per ref.
• EMT personnel may immediately transport hypotensive patients with life-threatening, penetrating injuries to the torso to the closest trauma center, not the most accessible receiving (mar), when the transport time is less than the estimated time of ALS arrival.
• The transporting unit should make every effort to contact the receiving trauma center.
• EMT personnel encounter a life-threatening situation (unmanageable airway or uncontrollable hemorrhage), they should exercise their clinical judgment as to whether it is in the patient’s best interest to transport the patient prior to the arrival of an ALS unit if their estimated time of arrival (eta) exceeds the eta to the mar.
• EMT personnel may honor a patient request for transport to a facility other than the mar if the patient is deemed stable and only requires basic life support (BLS).