8.5 Purchase Pacemaker/Defibril· CITY OF SALINA
RE~JE~TFORCONNISSION ACTION DATE TIME
2/27/89 4:00 P.M.
AGENDA SECTION: Administration ORIGINATING OEPARTNENT: APPROVED FOR
AGENDA:
NO. 8 Fire Department
NO- 5
BY: Tom Girard
The EMS'Division of the Salina Fire Department has a need to update some of
the equipment used for patient care.
Two of the three heart monitors/defibrillators currently being used were
purchased in 1980, the other one was purchased in 1983.
Department staff has researched various options in this equipment up-date.
One new option now available is the addition of a cardiac pacer built into
a combination monitor/defibrillator.
Recommended Action:
The Commission approve the purchase of three (3) Moll-P.D. Non-invasive
Pacemaker/Defibrillator from Moll-MMI Corporation, ~oburn, M~ for a pur-
chase.price of $21,000.
Funding:
~1989 Budget Account #14-S07
CCIv~41SSION ACtiON
~v, OTION BY SECONO 8Y
OUTLINE OF PROPOSED PURCHASE
of
PACEMAKER / DEFIBRILLATOR
PREFERRED UNIT
Zoll-ZMI Corporation
500 W. Cunningham Park Local Sales Representative:
Woburn, MA 01801 Michael Emery
Unit Requested: Zoll-P.D. Non-invasive Pacemaker/Defibrillator
Cost (list price): $8,500 each 3 units requested 3 units X $8,500 = $25,500
Cost (as agreed): $7,000 each 3 units requested 3 units X $7,000 = $21,000
Warranty: Two (2) years -- Loaner provided within 24 hours if repairs
are necessary.
Asbury Salina Regional Medical Center's Emergency Room has recently purchased
two (2) of the Zoll-P.D. units for use in their department. St. John's Hospi-
tal is also looking at this unit for use in their Emergency Room. This would
mean that both the E.M.S. and the hospital Emergency Rooms would have the
same equipment, making it unnecessary to change equipment when a patient is
released to the Emergency Room staff for further care. This is not currently
possible because of equipment incompatibility.
ALTERNATIVE EQUIPMENT
Physio Control Corporation
11811 Willows Road, N.E. Local Sales Representative:
Redmond, WA 98052-1013 .~-~.~ Jim Phillips
Unit requested: 1 Life-Pak 5 Monitor $3,000
1 Life-Pak 5 Defibrillator 3,700
1 Battery Support 1,400
1 Pediatric Paddle set 110
1 Quick Pace Cardiac Pacer
Stand-alone 3~450
Total $11,460 / per unit
3 units X $11,460 = $34,380
Warranty: One (1) year.
The Life-Pak 5 units currently used by our department are getting old and
should be replaced. Two of our units were purchased in 1980. Whenever re-
pairs are necessar~ the units must be shipped to Independence, Missouri.
Physio-Contol now charges $98 per hour for repairs. We have had excellent
results and good service from these units throughout the years but they are
getting old and seem to need repairs more and more often.
Proposed Pacemaker/Defibrillator February 15, 1989 Page #2
WHY PACERS ARE NEEDED
In 1986 the American Heart Association specified the use of External Transcu-
taneous Pacing in the Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) protocols. The E.M.S.
Division has accepted these protocols as our own. However, we have not had the
equipment to do 'pacing' in the field as recommended.
Div. Chief Joe Knott has approached the Emergency Room Committee, which over-
s~es and approves all protocols for E.M.S., on this matter. It is their strong
recommendation that we obtain this much needed equipment, train our paramedics in
its use, and start 'pacing' in the field, following ACLS protocols.