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Overland Park Fire Department cites strong cardiac arrest survival, plans Narcan leave‑behind and expanded AED outreach
Summary
Fire department officials told the Public Safety Committee they use Utstein/CARES benchmarking and reported cardiac arrest survival notably above national averages; the department will begin a leave‑behind Narcan program in the coming months and has implemented video laryngoscope airway equipment.
Chief Angela Caruso Yaney briefed the Public Safety Committee on Overland Park Fire Department emergency medical services operations, saying the department handles roughly 20,000 emergency responses annually and that approximately 80% of those calls are medical incidents.
"We exist to help people," Chief Yaney said, and she described the department’s provider structure: firefighters are certified as EMTs, some personnel hold dual firefighter-paramedic roles, and medical direction and protocol oversight come from the department’s medical director, Dr. Brian Bieber.
Yaney said the department benchmarks cardiac-arrest survival using the Utstein standard through the CARES registry to allow an apples-to-apples national comparison. She reported national Utstein…
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