EMS providers are innovators. We have to be. It’s one thing to learn how to perform a procedure in a well lit classroom. It’s another thing altogether to do the same simple task upside down in a ditch in the dark while the patient is screaming in pain.

So what do we do? We come up with solutions.

This is why I like to see what kind of great inventions and product improvements that we come up with as a group. That’s what one pair of California paramedics did when they saw people succumbing to the desert heat in their region.

Read the article here.

Their company, called Chill Vests, Inc. has a variety of different products to keep people cool in high heat condition. Their products range from wrist and head bands that cool for 5 hours when wet all the way to camo design, military body armor with circulating fluid coils to cool off soldiers. Check out their company site at ChillVests.com.

I’d love to hear from any of the listeners or readers if they have any experience with these products and how well they work. This is a great illustration of what we can do with our first hand view of the patients in their natural habitat. We see the bad habits, poor living conditions, or the aftermath of bad ideas.