Emergency Medical Services (EMS) today is much different than it was 20 years ago. Today, Northville Township provides the highest level of pre-hospital medical care in the country. Since 2009, we provide full-time, advanced life support (ALS) treatment and transport to the residents and visitors of Northville Township. ALS includes cardiac monitoring, advanced airway intubation, medication administration of over 27 medications in over 100 dosage variations, cardiac defibrillation and pacing and intravenous and intraosseous infusion.

If you experience a cardiac arrest in Northville Township you are:

• 2x more likely to survive any cardiac arrest in Northville Township than across the state
•  or nation.
• 5x more likely to survive a VFIB cardiac arrest in Northville Township than across the state or nation (50% v. 8.8/8.9%).
• 3x more likely to experience return-of-spontaneous-circulation (ROSC).

Medication Administration

• Intramuscular (IM)
• Intravenous (IV)
• Intraosseous (IO)
• Intranasal (IN)
• Nebulized
• Oral

Electrical Therapy

• Automatic and manual defibrillation
• Transcutaneous pacing
• Synchronized cardioversion

Airway Management

• Oxygen administration and nebulized breathing treatments
• Basic airways (NPA, OPA, supraglottic)
• Advanced airways (intubation, video laryngoscopy, needle cricothyrotomy and surgical cricothyrotomy)
• Continous positive airway pressure (CPAP)