Professional Paramedics And EMT's Of Saylor Township Iowa

Your professional Saylor Township EMS staff with the assistance of the Des Moines Fire Department technical rescue team operated at this scene yesterday and successfully rescued one victim of an industrial accident. The EMS crew was at the patient’s side beginning care within 6 minutes of the alarm.

The paid professional EMS staff only respond to Emergency Medical Services calls for service. We also rely on mutual aid from our neighboring departments to augment the daytime responses to rescue and fire calls.

For the entire year of 2020, the average response time of our paid professional staff was just over 5 and 1/2 minutes - that is just 5 1/2 minutes from the time we are dispatched to the time we arrive at the scene of an emergency. This response time also includes mutual aid responses to our neighboring cities, which are typically longer responses.

The national gold standard for EMS response times is 8 minutes, and according to the AHA The chances of surviving Sudden Cardiac Arrest decrease by 7-10% with every minute that passes without advanced medical care.

The year prior to the daytime paid staffing program being implemented, the average response time was over 13 minutes due to no in-house staff.

This is a massive improvement in an area that truly matters to the citizens of Saylor Township, and the Township Trustees should be thanked for their foresight in approving and providing continued support for this program.

The Saylor Township Fire Department paid EMS daytime Paramedic staffing program has been in place for over 2 years now and is staffed with highly qualified and very experienced EMTs and Paramedics, with at least one Paramedic always on duty.

These paid staff are in house and ready to respond to emergencies from 6am to 6pm Monday through Friday excluding national holidays.

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