High-risk critical care interfacility transportation at a moments notice 24/7/365. When a facility is hours away, our ALS equipped units and paramedic teams have the expertise to deliver patients alive.
CRITICAL CARE TRANSPORT
Advanced Medical Support • Highly Trained and Certified Critical Care Paramedics
Specialized Equipment • Frontline Medications • Team Transports
As the leading provider of patient logistics services in South Florida, Rapid Response Emergency Medical Services are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for inter-facility critical care transfers, routine medical transportation, and event stand-by.
Our highly-trained and experienced Paramedics and EMTs can act as an extension of a hospital or emergency clinic’s medical staff to provide the most immediate and effective treatment possible. Rapid Response EMS critical care team begins stabilizing and preparing a patient for more comprehensive emergency room care upon arrival.
With a transport fleet equipped with dynamic technologies and our customized patient-centric expertise, we deliver improved patient outcomes and efficiency gains for stand-alone healthcare facilities and some of the largest health systems in Florida.
Critical Care Transport
• Free Standing Hospitals
• Inter-facility to 911 at a moments notice
• Nursing Homes
• Assisted Living
• Non-emergency
• Advanced Life Support
Advanced Life Support
• Critical Care Paramedics
• Critical Care EMT’s
• Cutting-edge Equipment
• Frontline Medications
• Physician-supervised Protocols
Tech-enabled Mobile Units
• 12-lead ECG Electronic Strip
• Power Stretchers
• Stair Chair
• Ventilators
• Cardiac Monitors
• Infusion Pumps
Medical Event Stand-by
• Small-scale Community Events
• Large-scale Entertainment
• Construction Sites
• Sporting Events
• Media Production Sets
• Corporate Events
Rapid Response EMS is dedicated to superior patient logistics service. A highly qualified team dispatches our certified EMS crews in fully equipped, state-of-the-art vehicles with advanced communication and vehicle tracking systems to get you to where you’re going—safely, efficiently, and with improved patient outcomes.
Rapid Response EMS operates 24/7 and provides urgent and non-urgent transportation ambulance services, including, but not limited to, Advanced Life Support (ALS) ambulance services, Basic Life Support (BLS) ambulance services, ambulatory, wheelchair, and non-emergency stretcher services.
Rapid Response EMS Transport
Critical Care Teams
Rapid Response EMS critical care are services provided by highly trained master-level paramedics experienced in providing critical patient care in pre-hospital, inter-hospital, and hospital settings. Our Critical Care Paramedics (UFCCP) are trained by the University of Florida in collaboration with Shands Hospital and complete their continuing education in ICU settings.
- Surgical Airways
- Blood Product Administration
- Pericardiocentesis
- Escharotomies
- Intracranial Pressure Monitoring
- Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Therapy
- Vessel Cut Down
- Needle Decompression
- Stat lab interpretation
- VAD Management
- Central Line Placement and Monitoring
- Chest Tube Placement and Monitoring
- Placing and Monitoring Arterial Pressure Lines
- Adult Intraosseous Infusion
- Use of Ventilators
- Ultrasound
- Fetal Heart Tone Monitoring
EMTs and Paramedics are essential to the emergency medical transport and turn-over system. Rapid Response EMS teams have accomplished hours of intensive training at accredited hospital facilities.
EMTs are often the first on the scene, focusing on stabilizing patients and preparing them for transport to a medical facility. Their role is crucial in ensuring patients receive timely and appropriate care en route to the hospital. EMTs can provide basic emergency care and life support, which includes stabilizing patients, controlling bleeding, administering CPR, providing oxygen, and using automated external defibrillators (AEDs).
Paramedics can perform all the functions of an EMT but are also trained to provide advanced life support (ALS). They perform advanced airway management (like intubation), administer a wide range of medications, interpret electrocardiograms (EKGs), start IV lines, and perform some emergency procedures, like needle decompression.
Paramedics are typically responsible for providing more complex and advanced medical care. They can take over from EMTs or work alongside them to manage critical and life-threatening emergencies, providing interventions that can be lifesaving before reaching the hospital.
Paramedics often take the lead in emergency situations, making critical decisions about patient care, and performing advanced procedures. They are typically responsible for the overall management of the patient until they reach a hospital.
Choosing the Right Ambulance Service
Interfacility patient transfers often involve a complicated set of medical decisions. Referring facilities must ensure that patients receive appropriate care during interfacility transfer and upon discharge. Emergency medical service providers deliver a wide range of transport medical services. The specific types of skills and medicines that can be administered during transport depend upon established RREMS protocols approved by the Medical Director, clinical guidelines, and staffing. Download our Clinical Response Matrix 2024
RREMS currently offers ambulances basic life support (BLS), advanced life support (ALS), and critical care transport (CCT). Each tier of transport medical care is authorized to administer specific medications and perform particular skills.
Basic Life Support (BLS)
A BLS ambulance is staffed by at least one emergency medical technician (EMT) and an EMS Vehicle Operator (EMR). EMTs provide non-invasive monitoring of vital signs and are trained to administer oxygen, control bleeding, and stabilize fractures. EMIs do not provide intravenous/intraosseous therapy. BLS
transports are for stable patients who do not require medications or cardiac monitoring.
Advanced Life Support (ALS)
ALS ambulances are staffed with at least one ALS provider (paramedic and one BLS provider (EMT). ALS personnel are trained to perform and interpret 12-lead ECGs, administer intravenous fluids, administer specific infusions, establish an advanced airway, hemodynamically stabilize patients, and provide cardiac monitoring.
Critical Care Transport 1
CCI services staff ambulances with a CCP (Critical Care Paramedic) and an EMT. The CCP must be trained and certified in an expanded scope of critical care transport by an institution of higher education. CCT services provide additional capabilities beyond the regular ALS scope of practice under expanded protocols. CCT crews transport patients requiring some forms of mechanical ventilation, chest tubes to suction or water seat, and specific infusions not routinely carried on an ALS ambulance.
Critical Care Transport 2
This Critical Care Service must provide one CCP, an EMI, and a third ALS provider (Paramedic, RN, Respiratory Therapist) transporting as a Critical Care Team. The ambulance must be staffed with at least two advanced personnel (most commonly teams of prehospital RNs and paramedics) trained in critical care
providers.
Pediatric Life Support (PALS)
RREMS Paramedics possess specialized skills that differ from those needed for adult life support. These skills focus on children’s unique physiological, anatomical, and emotional needs.
The following are some of the specializations that our Critical Care Paramedics provide.
1. Pediatric Airway Management: Children have smaller and more delicate airways. We are proficient in airway management techniques specific to pediatric anatomy, including using appropriate-sized equipment for intubation, ventilation, and suctioning.
2. Recognizing Pediatric Respiratory Distress: Children are more susceptible to respiratory issues. RREMS Paramedics recognize, quickly assess, and treat the subtle signs of respiratory distress that differ from adult presentations.
3. Pediatric Resuscitation: Our Paramedics are trained in pediatric advanced life support (PALS). We understand age-specific resuscitation techniques, including the correct depth and rate of chest compressions, proper use of pediatric defibrillators, and drug dosages based on the child’s weight.
4. Fluid and Medication Administration: Administering fluids and medications in children requires careful calculation based on weight and age to avoid over- or under-dosing. Our Paramedics are skilled in using Broselow tape or similar tools to ensure accuracy.
5. Recognition of Pediatric Trauma: Children’s bodies respond differently to trauma than adults. Our Paramedics understand pediatric-specific injury patterns and potential internal injuries that may not be immediately visible.
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Service Areas
Central & South Florida
