Vanderbilt LifeFlight Event Medicine leaders will work with you to develop a plan so medical services are tailored to meet the needs and the budget of your unique event. No event is too small or too big! For example, a small event, such as a street fair, that has little stress on its participants might be covered by a single EMT. Larger gatherings like marathons or a sporting event, require the development of a more comprehensive medical team plan which may include EMTs, paramedics, nurses and physicians.
Your event plan could include direct medical services at your event, or hiring Vanderbilt to act as expert consultants overseeing and coordinating medical services at your event.
Why Vanderbilt LifeFlight Event Medicine?
By choosing Vanderbilt LifeFlight to provide your event with its medical coverage you are opening the door to having access to a wide range of services and expertise offered by Vanderbilt Medical Center. Vanderbilt is the region’s only Level 1 Trauma Center and has been named as one of the nation’s best hospitals by U.S. News and World Report (ranked number 15 in 2008).LifeFlight’s Event Medicine staff of emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics are highly trained and offer the highest level of professionalism. In addition, Vanderbilt LifeFlight maintains a 24-hour emergency communication center, which can help facilitate any request from the event medicine staff.
Vanderbilt LifeFlight Event Medicine can dedicate EMT (basic) or paramedic (ALS) ambulances for your event, or can provide other alternatives, including an EMT/Paramedic rover(s) that provides a single EMT or paramedic to your event without the additional cost of the ambulance.
The benefit of having EMTs or paramedics on foot (either stationed in specific locations or constantly roving their event looking for any signs of medical problems) will quicken their response and ensure that medical care is always close at hand. These “rovers” can work as a single cost effective medical provider at your event or in teams, with or without an ambulance crew to accompany them.
All of our BLS-Level services provide an automated external defibrillator in the event of a sudden cardiac arrest at your event. Our emergency experience and training with mass casualty incidents makes us the perfect partner for your event.
We even offer free over-the-counter medications, earplugs and other useful items to anyone over 18-years of age, working at or visiting your event, with the purchase of any of our standby services.
Our Paramedics and EMTs are professional emergency medical providers that respond to life and death medical emergencies every day. They bring that same skill-level to our first-aid service, so you can rest assured that they’ll be ready to handle anything that comes their way.
If you do not have a communications plan for your event that includes two-way radios, we can provide radios for your event staff to communicate with our medical staff to ensure that we are always easy to reach.