Robertson County EMS Adopts Handtevy (KBTX)

A new system designed to help hospitals and paramedics is now in Robertson County. It's meant to help paramedics give the correct amount of medicine on those emergency calls.

News 3's Erica Fernandez has an inside look at how a new app could soon be saving lives. All right, we have a one year old. We need to give FD one to one.

Medics dispatched to a critical pediatric call know firsthand stress is part of the job.

They're scared to death inside of going on a critical pediatric patient. It doesn't matter what your tenure or how long you've been doing this. That's when your pulse rate goes up.

Corey Ricketson learned from his own mistake. While working as a medic in Austin, he was treating a young child.

The dose that was listed there was not for the condition that I needed to give it for. So I actually gave 10 times as much of the medication than what I needed to.

Now he works for Hand Tevy, a pre planning system that takes all of the medications EMS professionals would use and customizes the solution for them. The calculations are weight based, but removes the math involved.

It potentially could be someone's last day. That's what the air medical crews are faced with every time we go out.

Billy rice with Chi St Joseph airmed has used hand heavy for five years. He says the system eliminates any possibility for errors and lower stress for first responders.

And from the time they land the the patient handoff is seamless. You know, like this is the care that they were delivering, these are the dosages they were delivering, and there's no mistakes this way.

The last batch of medics in Robertson county are training, hoping to make the right call and save lives along the way. In Robertson County, Erica Fernandez, News 3.

There are more than 800 EMS agencies across the country that use Hand Tevy, including College Station.