Biking paramedics get their first Mersey tests at visitor attractions; THE OPEN NEW COURSE RECORD.NEW first aid mountain bikes have been pioneered in Merseyside as the region hosts two of the visitor events of 2008. The North West Ambulance Service The North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust was formed on 1 July 2006 as part of Health Minister Lord Warner's plans to reduce the number of NHS ambulance service trusts operating in the United Kingdom to 12. NHS Trust National Health Service Trusts (NHS Trusts) provide many services of the National Health Service in England and Wales. They are not trusts in the legal sense but are in effect public sector corporations. (NWAS NWAS North West Ambulance Service (UK) NWAS Northwest Anesthesia Seminars (Pasco, Washington) NWAS Naval Warfare Assessment Station NWAS National Window Advisory Service ) will be providing Cycle Response Units for today's Tall Ship's Parade of Sail following a trial at the Open Golf at Royal Birkdale. Supported by emergency ambulance, the mountain bikes carry two panniers full of equipment and allow medics to reach patients in hard-to-access or crowded places. They carry a scaled down version of the full paramedic par·a·med·ic n. A person who is trained to give emergency medical treatment or assist medical professionals. paramedic rucksack and are equipped with Automated External Defibrillators automated external defibrillator Emergency medicine A portable device designed for use by first-response personnel for out-of-hospital emergency treatment of Pts suffering from cardiac arrest. See First-response personnel. and first aid equipment. Mike Allen, a paramedic from Chester, was among four people who attended training in London to use the bikes. He said: "I've been using the bike at the Open Golf and it allowed quick and easy access across the course. "The bikes have had a fantastic response in London where they are used in the parks, city centre and Heathrow Airport. "People are surprised to see a bike and we don't have sirens and lights just a normal bell, but the response has been great." Two cycles were in operation for the golf, but seven will be used today covering promenades in Wallasey, New Brighton, Crosby, Otterspool and Liverpool city centre. |
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