COMMUNITY
Community Organizations and Programs Continued
The bleeding bags are a small cache of
equipment to address severe bleeding
from torso or extremity wounds regardless
of the mechanism of that bleeding. Each
bag is set up identically. Each patrol car,
QRS fire vehicle and ambulance will have
one. Contents include 3 tourniquets,
3 sets of chest seals, 3 quick clot bandages,
3 clotting agent pressure bandages,
scissors, emergency blankets, and more.
The concept will allow any one unit to treat
1 to 3 patients easily. Compounding those
bags when we all arrive together helps us
treat mass casualties with equipment and
procedures we are all now familiar with.
Training together and planning together
will allow us to function as one cohesive
lifesaving team.
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oss Township
ROSS/WEST VIEW
EMSA USES CUTTING
EDGE TECHNOLOGY
TO BETTER CARE
FOR PATIENTS
Ross/West View EMSA continues to be a
leader in the pre-hospital arena. Recently
adding cutting edge technology allowing
video teleconferencing between stroke
patients and Neurosurgeons at Allegheny
General Hospital, we are bringing the
surgeon to the field through a “stroke
robot”. The stroke robot allows the
physician to pan and zoom a camera,
looking very closely at patients suffering
strokes to determine where they can best
be serviced. Hospitals in our region fall
into three categories specific to stroke care.
Be it a community hospital with no stroke
services, a primary stroke center with
limited services or a comprehensive stroke
facility with interventional Neurosurgeons,
this device will help us expedite that care
and get the patient to the best place that
can help them as quickly as possible.
Paramedics at Ross/West View EMSA are
working hand in hand with ER physicians
and Neurosurgeons to continue to speed
this process up. A stroke is similar to a
heart attack in that time is muscle (brain
tissue in the case of a stroke). The sooner
56 Ross Township
we get appropriate treatment the better
chance the patient has not only to survive,
but to decrease disability and return to a
normal life.
the house in the Good Plan that she still
lives in today.
Submitted by
Gregory Porter, Assistant Director
Ross/West View EMSA
OPEN 24 HOURS:
100 YEARS OF LOVE
& LAUGHTER
Ross Township Resident, Ruth Faulk
Dodds, turned 100 years old
Ruth Dodds, a resident of Ross Township,
recently celebrated her 100th birthday. Her
secret for longevity is simple, she said, “just
enjoy every day and have fun.”
Her father had the second car in Allegheny
County – a Ford, of course. Ruth, her
brother and parents lived on Perryview
Avenue, and Ruth went to Perry High
School. The neighborhood was very
dif