What is Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD)?
Emergency Medical Dispatch is a comprensive program that, with the assistance of you the caller, results in the immediate treatment of the patient. Technological and medical advancements have created and Emergency Medical System that can essentially bring the Hospital Emergency Department to your door. However, despite all of these advancements, the one thing that will never change is the physical distance between the location of the medical emergency and the responding unit. Fire trucks and ambulances still need to drive from point A to point B.
