New 800mhz MED channels

[Anderegg]

I used to listen to ambulances talking to hospitals on the old semi-duplex UHF frequencies. Now everything is 800mhz, and I don't know what systems and talkgroups I need to hear.

I want to monitor the ALS comms for Scripps Mercy, UCSD Med Center, Sharp, and Scripps La Jolla. Looking to hear ambulances rushing in code 3 traumas. I know San Diego City and the RCS South both have talkgroups for these hospitals. I assume that I need the SD TRS ones, would that assumption be correct?

Paul

 

[K6CDO]

I used to listen to ambulances talking to hospitals on the old semi-duplex UHF frequencies. Now everything is 800mhz, and I don't know what systems and talkgroups I need to hear.

I want to monitor the ALS comms for Scripps Mercy, UCSD Med Center, Sharp, and Scripps La Jolla. Looking to hear ambulances rushing in code 3 traumas. I know San Diego City and the RCS South both have talkgroups for these hospitals. I assume that I need the SD TRS ones, would that assumption be correct?

Paul

For the City ambulances, yes. As Trauma centers, the facilities will receive transports from all over the county so the RCS groups should also be monitored.

 

[Anderegg]

So to be clear, SD medics will be on the SD system, and AMR ambulances, and independent city ambulances will be on the RCS?

Seems kinda like a pain to have two radios at each hospital.

Paul

 

[inigo88]

So to be clear, SD medics will be on the SD system, and AMR ambulances, and independent city ambulances will be on the RCS?

Seems kinda like a pain to have two radios at each hospital.

Paul

That's what they do though! Each hospital within the city has a City radio and an RCS radio (larger hospitals have an ALS talkgroup and a BLS one, smaller hospitals just have a "transport" talkgroup).

Something that was very foreign to me before moving here was the concept of "base hospitals." Back home in the bay area, the incoming ambulance would just ring down the destination ER with a brief radio report. In San Diego, there are 7 base hospitals each staffed with a "Base Station Radio Nurse" (BSRN). The transporting unit will call the closest base hospital (I think, K6CDO may correct me) and give the BSRN a very detailed report, based on the patient report "bubble chart" format (which I believe is now handled via MDT).

What confused me about this system at first is that the ambulance often goes to a completely different facility then the base hospital that takes the report, and the BSRN then has to call the destination facility by phone and forward the information.

Here's a good explanation of the way San Diego County does things: 911 Calls Explained | San Diego County

 

[Anderegg]

With diverting ambulances, it may be that when the patients status is determined, the hospital recieving may divert them due to overflow, or trauma bypass.....

How do you spell catchmit?

Paul

 

[KI6AOK]

Cachement. : )

 

[mike619]

Here's a good explanation of the way San Diego County does things: 911 Calls Explained | San Diego County[/QUOTE]

This site no longer works is there any other site that explains how they dispatch?

 

[Anderegg]

I thought "cash meant" money?

Paul