20-05-2025
Martin County Fire Rescue uses new app to help in caring for patients
MARTIN COUNTY — Fire Rescue started using an app called One Dose that allows crews to enhance emergency response efficiency when helping patients.
"When it first came out, there were a lot of hiccups here and there," District Chief Kevin Moore said. "We kind of had to fine tune it and we're still having the EMS captains go through and tailor it even further."
They've been working with it since January. Every fire station in the county uses it; it's tailored to their department's protocols.
The app is utilized in nearly every call and has been used to help multiple patients so far.
"We had our EMS captains and lieutenants running medical scenarios utilizing the One Dose app to get familiar with it," Moore said. "That was how we were able to determine certain things, like the ventilation was a little too fast and it needs to slow down."
One Dose allows crews to do a variety of things, including search protocols, give accurate dosing for medication, keep track of times when doing CPR, determine what size equipment to use, and pre-set vital signs so crews can quickly identify if something is wrong with a patient.
Moore said the dosages are for medications they have on hand, so crews can do emergency procedures. He said it tells them what medication to give the patient and the dosage.
"There is also filtration based on age or weight," Moore said "We can put in the weight of that patient and it tells us what drugs we are able to utilize and the amount."
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Fire crews carry bags with color-coded pouches in them that corelate with the app that can help determine what to use on specific patients.
"When we go for a pediatric patient and it says the color is pink for this patient based on their weight and age, we can go in our bag, find the pouch with the pink coloration, pull that out," Moore said. "All of the equipment, medications, everything is in that pouch to treat that pediatric patient."
In addition to the life-saving measures, Moore said the app also has quizzes and allows them to send out messages to the entire department.
"We are definitely enjoying the process of going through this app," Moore said. "We are incorporating a bunch more things into it for easy use."
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This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: Martin County Fire Rescue uses new app to help patients quicker
