Anyone can throw equipment in an ambulance. However, when it comes down to treating the patent quickly and efficiently, you must not be guessing where your equipment is located. We have built our equipment deployment system around a few important ideas: commonality and ease of access to supplies.
All equipment is organized in bins in every vehicle, color coded, and arranged to speed deployment of needed medical care equipment. Items in one vehicle are in the exactly the same place in another. This allows crews to develop muscle memory for their tasks, making the tasks more of a reaction than a cognitive event.
Our portable equipment is neatly arranged in custom lettered bags, again all common. There is no guessing where something should be, everything has a place. After all, do you want a responding paramedic rooting through a bag that they're unfamiliar with if you are trying to die? Us either. Saving time and patients with forethought.
Our vehicles and their equipment are checked routinely to ensure that state and company standards are being met. We ensure that only equipment and supplies we purchase is on the vehicles. There is no need for the smallest learning curve on scene, even if its just a question of "how do I assemble this?"