Killeen Fire Department to outfit fleet with ZOLL cardiac monitors under 5-year financing
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The Killeen Fire Department recommended purchasing 24 ZOLL cardiac monitors/defibrillators (to outfit engines and ambulances) with a 5-year, 0% financing offer; staff emphasized clinical and quality-improvement benefits and a loaner/warrranty program.
Killeen Fire Department leaders asked the council on Nov. 4 to authorize purchase of 24 ZOLL cardiac monitors and defibrillators to outfit the city's engines and ambulances.
Deputy Chief Schomburg and Chief Paul Kabinski said monitors are the standard device used for on-scene cardiac care, offering features the department prioritized in a product evaluation: ability to visualize underlying rhythm while delivering CPR, CPR feedback to improve compressions, EKG printing for emergency-department handoffs and respiratory monitoring features used in airway management.
Chief Kabinski said the department currently has roughly 14 monitors in service and that older units are reaching end-of-life; the proposed purchase of 24 units would outfit all engines and ambulances with the same platform. The ZOLL package included a four-year warranty, training for crews and remote data transmission that enables prearrival data transfer to emergency departments and post-event quality review.
Killeen staff said ZOLL offered a five-year, 0% interest financing arrangement, which would cost the city about $318,145 per year over five years for a total contract amount of $1,590,728.62.
Chief Kabinski stressed the clinical importance of the devices: "This is the one tool that our firefighters and paramedics use each and every single day on each and every single patient we come in contact with," he said, adding that the monitors will support better on-scene care and more effective handoffs to hospitals.
The item was presented as part of the city's regular procurement/resolution items and placed on the consent agenda for council approval.
