35. Your aggregate response time is 43. Does your communications system 49. Is continuous National Registry
calculated by what method? use mobile data terminals? certification mandated in your system?
Average—50% 32.76% Yes 34.92% Yes 21.09%
Fractile—90% 19.83% No 65.08% No 78.91%
Other 9.48%
Information not available 37.93% 44. Does your communications system 50. If so, who mandates it?
use a system of call screening and Organization 21.21%
36. When does the response time prioritization? Regional regulatory agency 3.03%
clock start? APCO 9.38% State regulatory agency 75.76%
When the 9-1-1 line rings 3.20% Medical Priority Dispatch 34.38%
When the 9-1-1 call is answered 13.60% Other 7.03% 51. How is initial EMS training
When information is available to None 32.03% provided in your system?
dispatch the assignment 28.00% Information not available 17.19% Providers receive training prior to
When the assignment is hiring
dispatched 47.20% 45. What is your primary radio Yes 79.53%
When the first unit is rolling 4.80% communication frequency? No 20.47%
Information not available 3.20% VHF low band 15.87% Providers receive training after they
VHF high band 45.24% are hired
37. When does the response time UHF 7.94% Yes 54.69%
clock stop? 800 MHz 30.95% No 45.31%
When the first unit arrives at
the address 45.60% 46. What is your secondary radio 52. Are you looking to replace or
When the first ambulance arrives communication system? supplement any of your traditional
at the address 41.60% VHF low band 14.29% classroom-based training with learning
When a responder arrives at VHF high band 28.57% products?
the patient 7.20% UHF 13.49% Yes 63.28%
Information not available 5.60% 800 MHz 10.32% No 36.72%
Cellular 65.87%
38. Who provides primary dispatch Nextel 25.40% 53. How are core EMS certifications
services for your organization? Digital or alphanumeric 29.37% provided in your system?
Your organization 18.75% Other 3.97% Certifications are provided by your
Fire department 2.34% organization
Law enforcement 21.88% 47. List any EMS special operations Yes 33.59%
Multijurisdictional comm center 57.03% components that your organization No 66.41%
participates in and how they are Certifications are provided by another
39. Does your organization use any primarily staffed. training organization
radio codes (10-codes or signals)? Hazardous materials Yes 87.50%
Yes 34.38% You are the primary agency 18.92% No 12.50%
No 65.63% Multi-agency team 81.08%
Technical rescue 54. How are refresher EMS certifica-
40. Is your organization capable of You are the primary agency 24.66% tions provided in your system?
regular and routine radio communica- Multi-agency team 75.34% Certifications are provided by your
tions with any of the following? Collapse rescue organization
Air-medical services 81.60% You are the primary agency 22.95% Yes 62.79%
Fire department 95.20% Multi-agency team 77.05% No 37.21%
Hospitals 90.40% Disaster Medical Assistance Team Certifications are provided by another
Law enforcement 68.80% You are the primary agency 2.70% training organization
Mutual-aid EMS agencies 89.60% Multi-agency team 97.30% Yes 72.87%
Other EMS agencies 62.40% Water rescue No 27.13%
You are the primary agency 38.89%
41. Does your communications system Multi-agency team 61.11% 55. How are other EMS training
use automatic vehicle locators? Tactical EMS programs offered in your system?
Yes 17.97% EMS providers are armed Certifications are provided by your
No 82.03% team members 9.84% organization
EMS providers are not armed 90.16% Yes 80.62%
42. Does your communications system Other No 19.38%
use a CAD system? Yes 13.83% Certifications are provided by another
Yes 76.56% No 86.17% training organization
No 23.44% Yes 64.34%
48. Does your organization routinely No 35.66%
use the incident command system?
Yes 96.83% No 3.17%
56. Are providers paid (overtime, Providing CPAP treatment? Medical supplies and
compensatory time, etc.) for training Yes 33.87% consumables 11.70%
once they are hired? No 66.13% Personnel costs (salaries,
Yes 63.93% Providing pharmacologic-assisted benefits, etc.) 63.30%
No 36.07% intubation (RSI)? Other capital costs 13.60%
Standing orders 22.76% Other costs 9.79%
57. Are providers given time off for Medical control only 11.38% Other operational costs 13.95%
training? Not allowed 65.85%
Yes 66.40% Providing surgical airways? 69. Does your organization have a
No 33.60% Standing orders 26.61% physician medical director?
Medical control only 19.35% Yes 90.00%
58. Does your organization provide Not allowed 54.03% No 10.00%
tuition reimbursement for college? Providing other invasive airways?
Yes 48.06% Standing orders 58.54% 70. Is your medical director
No 51.94% Medical control only 13.82% compensated?
Not allowed 26.83% Yes, by this organization 35.90%
59. Does your organization provide all Providing adult intraosseous infusion? Yes, by another organization 26.50%
required uniforms or a regular uniform Standing orders 47.58% Yes, costs shared 4.27%
allowance? Medical control only 12.90% No 33.33%
Yes 85.38% Not allowed 39.52%
No 14.62% Providing needle thoracentesis? 71. Who is your medical director’s
Standing orders 50.00% primary employer?
60. Does your organization provide Medical control only 16.13% EMS organization 6.72%
health benefits? Local hospital 70.59%
Not allowed 33.87%
Yes 72.09% Other 22.69%
Administering narcotics for seizures?
No 27.91%
Standing orders 62.60%
Medical control only 13.82% 72. Are your organization’s front-line
61. Does your organization provide providers organized in a labor union?
Not allowed 23.58%
incentive pay for: Yes 27.91%
Administering narcotics for analgesia?
Additional training levels/certificates? No 72.09%
Standing orders 55.65%
Yes 48.78%
Medical control only 22.58%
No 51.22% 73. Is your organization accredited by
Not allowed 21.77%
Call volume? an independent body such as CAAS?
Providing field termination of cardiac
Yes 7.69% Yes 4.65%
arrest resuscitation?
No 92.31% No 95.35%
Standing orders 36.80%
Specialty team membership?
Medical control only 53.60%
Yes 23.53% 74. What type of patient
Not allowed 9.60%
No 76.47% documentation do you use?
Other? Paper 47.69%
64. Do you routinely respond to all
Yes 7.26% PC-based 33.08%
emergencies with lights and sirens?
No 92.74% Palm/pocket PC 2.31%
Yes 77.34%
Web-based 16.92%
No 22.66%
62. Who sets your medical treatment
protocols? 75. Does your organization bill for
65. Do you routinely transport all
Your organization services?
patients to hospitals with lights and
Yes 36.92% Yes 80.62%
sirens?
No 63.08% No 19.38%
Yes 9.17%
Local or regional protocols No 90.83%
Yes 63.08% 76. If yes, who provides your billing?
No 36.92% 66. Who is responsible for making the Your department 29.91%
State protocols decision about lights and sirens? Another in-house branch 11.21%
Yes 45.38% EMS crew discretion 82.03% Outsourced to private company 58.88%
No 54.62% Protocol-driven 16.41%
Not applicable 1.56% 77. What type of billing system do
63 Is your organizaton capable of: 67. What was your 2005 total you use?
Obtaining 12-lead ECGs? operating budget? Billing service 50.47%
Yes 67.44% $8,963,408.72 Commercial software 33.64%
No 32.56% Custom-made software 8.41%
Regularly transmitting 12-lead ECGs 68. How much of this budget was Paper 7.48%
to base or receiving hospitals? allocated to the following?
Yes 32.03% Capital vehicle costs 11.42%
No 67.97% Educational costs 5.57%