Well done... I would love to see this all over. It would help so much..... I think this is gonna be a start of something good..

This is not the first instance of chase/fly cars. Plenty of other jurisdictions have paramedics on call to meet the BLS providers.

you gota be kidding

First, a Police version vehicle should never be assigned to anybody with out first giving them the proper training for such a vehicle. Hopefully these medics will not be on our next list of EMS LODDs list. Secondly, there are lots of vehicles better suited for the job especially if any of the medics are big guys. Get ready for lots of brake maintainence because that is the largest complaint from our police fleet. Big guys, small car also equals lots of pain getting in and out repeatedly. If you really want a quick paramedic response unit put them on a BMW Motorcycle, reduce your initial cost and minimize your fuel and maintainence costs and you will get there quicker and with better visibility.

Even though there is a comment that says this program is not about speed that is the main focus of the article. Better utilization of resources is certainly important. However, when you have the first crash it will be difficult to spin it in anyother way other than they were going too fast. The fact the these vehicles are made to go fast will provide the personnel driving them the perception that that is how they should drive them...All out.

This is a good move<make shure the siren is loud and the lights are led and the roof lites are high so they can be seen.We have a programme ems motor response units.There are a couple of cities in Canada that are going to ,use motors as response units.Efective and can get a lot of places a medical unit cant.Especially during rush hour. Have a look at our web.there is a motor response unit on the front page.

Muscle cars? Are these people crazy, or what? The entire country is FINALLY recognizing that you improve cardiac arrest outcomes through citizen CPR, AEDs and rapid dispatching, not by hot-rod response vehicles. I am a huge proponent of safe EMS driving, but even I would be dangerous behind the wheel of new retro-style Dodge Charger with a "brutish 5.7-liter HEMI V8 engine with the power of 368 horses." I guess if your system still thinks like EMS of the 70s, you are stuck with decisions 40 years out of date. Sounds like fun, but EMS has long outgrown this kind of stupidity. Quick response/supervisor vehicles are fine. But go back to the Suburbans.

instead of spending the money on musule cars an you are paying poeple to staff them buy more rigs instead its safer and less risk taking

Hey, std hole, were not in the 70s you are, we have at least a 44% save rate.This poorly put together report didnt tell you that the cars are heavily monitored for speed by multiple sources and cant go over 60 mph . There real job is to do preventive care and take care of frequent flyers and check in and assist with cardiac arrests and other higher level calls. The sad thing is the whole story wasnt told, yes I agree a charger is very powerful tool,but a top heavy QRV is also a big risk too. Its the people and the training they recieve not the 70s randy rescue you talk about. May be before anyone else jumps up on this topic they should research the system there talking about. Wake County is better that most systems across the USA and Canada.
I guess its easy trying to shoot down other systems ,when they at least trying to do something different,and more than the NJ fly care crap with poorly trained medics on the QRVs

As this article details the program, yes this is absurd... especially after you see the checkered-english-police style painting on these beasts. One thing Ill give Dr. Myers is that he is generally pretty progressive: uninterupted CPR, post resuscitation cooling, etc. My problem is this county emphasizes DUAL paramedic responses on EVERY call. On maybe 5% of the calls dispatched could a second paramedic be useful for anything besides driving. Now they want to dispatch a 3rd Paramedic, who probably wont even get there until the scene is already cleared. If we want to decrease response times we need to have 911 BLS units to pick up the low-acuity calls so there are still paramedics around for the mega-code. Not to mention, maybe there might still be something left of the budget for the rest of us!