Communications coordination for emergency medical services

Improved response time in providing emergency medical services (EMS) is attained through development of regional or areawide radio communications, permitting the use of common dispatch or control centers to coordinate and optimize use both of the facilities available for emergency medical treatment and of the radio spectrum allocated for this function. With the allocation last year of radio channels earmarked for emergency medical communications, the need for a coordinated approach to permit shared use of these channels became evident. A common control system permitting dynamic channel assignment to multiple areas, and including the function of computer-aided dispatch, is described and a typical application is shown.