Project Title: Advancing Wilderness Patient Monitoring & Treatment

Project Purpose: to enhance SNP’s emergency response capabilities by allowing providers to monitor cardiac rhythms and end-tidal CO2 in remote and inaccessible areas of the park where traditional cardiac monitors aren’t an option.

Project Goals:

• to purchase two Athena GTX Wireless Vital Signs Monitors (WVSM) with capnography
• to stage one WVSM on the park ambulance and one with Miranda, the park’s sole paramedic
• to eventually deploy the devices to every advanced practice provider (advanced EMT & park medic)

Project Impact: This small, lightweight, FDA-cleared patient monitoring system allows a paramedic or park medic to continuously monitor a patient’s blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen saturation, end-tidal CO2, and cardiac rhythm in remote backcountry settings. The device is portable enough to be easily carried off trails, up Old Rag, and to all of the austere environments where we find critically ill and injured patients and can’t bring the full-sized cardiac monitor carried on the park ambulance.

Project Funding: $11,965 in FY25 and in FY26