VIDEO: Columbia County Fire Rescue has some new life-saving equipment, and it’s the only local agency that has it.
It has equipped three rescue trucks and two administrative vehicles with the UE Video Laryngoscope.
If a patient has a blocked or damaged airway, the paramedics can use these new machines.
They can record video, improve the view of airways and increase the first time intubation success rate.
“If we do come to someone that needs an airway, a blocked air way, damaged airway, or that’s not breathing at all, we want to do that intervention and have a 100% success rate the first time,” said Lt. Jamarius Tate, the EMS training coordinator for CCFR. “And that’s what that equipment has done for us.”
They can record video, improve the view of airways and increase the first time intubation success rate.