Excerpts from the DailyHerald.com:
Arlington Heights Firefighter/Paramedic Andrew Hansen was named the Illinois Department of Public Health’s Emergency Medical Services Instructor of the Year for developing a specific video laryngoscopy technique and creating a trial program in Arlington Heights.
He’s since been instructing fellow paramedics throughout the Northwest Community Emergency Medical Services System, a consortium that covers six hospitals and 24 fire departments and ambulance providers in the suburbs.
Since the technique was implemented in Arlington Heights, the intubation success rate jumped from 43 percent to 96 percent. Intubation is the placement of a flexible plastic tube into a patient’s windpipe to open the airway or administer drugs.
Hansen has spent years educating paramedics throughout the state and country, and coordinating medical device training labs for paramedic agencies, the military, and for national conferences.
He was honored at a village board meeting in May, when he and six colleagues also were applauded for helping resuscitate a man whose heart had stopped in March.
thanks Dan
