Surry County EMS personnel won't get to some locations in Surry County in time to save a life, says one official. "If you're in cardiac arrest, do you want to wait four to six minutes or 30 minutes for medical care?"
For the second year in a row, Shelton asked commissioners to consider adding two quick-response vehicles (QRVs) and the crews and equipment to man them to his department’s fleet.
Shelton said the QRVs would be stationed in Lowgap and Shoals, what he considers to be the most outlying areas of the county which are not adequately serviced by his department. Each Ford Explorer would have a critical care paramedic on board and carry the equipment necessary to keep a person alive until an ambulance can arrive at the scene of a medical emergency.
Shelton made it a point to show just what the equipment, a $23,000 Life Pak 15, was capable of doing.