SIMCAS selects EMMA for advanced pre-hospital airway care

SIMCAS, the South East Coast Immediate Care Scheme is as charity entirely funded by voluntary contributions, www.simcas.org.uk The role of SIMCAS is to provide a specially
trained and equipped doctor or nurse to serious road collisions and other major incidents 24 hours a day at the request of the Ambulance service, SECAMB.

At present SIMCAS deploys 28 doctors and 2 nurses throughout Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
The members of SIMCAS identified that they needed assurance in the intubated patient of impeccable control of CO2 and ventilation. Any pre-hospital device has to be portable, reliable in the harsh environment, easy to read in poor weather or darkness, accurate and precise.

Evaluation showed that the EMMA portable mainstream capnometer fulfilled all of our criteria for airway management. The day after delivery, one of our trainers was called to a cardiac arrest patient whom he and his trainees successfully resuscitated and then anaesthetised. EMMA provided dependable CO2 readings and the patient was delivered to hospital in excellent condition and normocapnic.

Dr Alan Pearce,
Chairman of SIMCAS said “we are very pleased with our purchase.