North Richland Hills fire, EMS departments adopt potentially life-saving app technology

For first responders, the difference between life and death can be a matter of seconds. For some fire and EMS departments in North Texas, an app can now help them treat patients more quickly.Scanning the band pulls up an online form for patient information.

"If we have to put a tourniquet on something, this is how deep that cut is. Like, 'Oh, instead of stitches, we're gonna need something more. We're gonna need surgery.' They can get that team ready, ready to go," Kuper explained. Rainwater said all fire and EMS have trained on the new system, and each truck has a phone or iPad ready to launch.

"We have to triage patients, see who needs help, you know, the quickest. So, reds are going to go first, and then yellows and then greens," she said, pointing to color-coded labels next to each patient ID."If we unfortunately have a mass casualty event and we can't identify that patient, we can take a picture of what they're wearing for reunification purposes, like if they're unconscious or something like that," Kuper explained.

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