COUNTY SHERIFF EPI PENS

A NEW OHIO LAW ALLOWS LOCAL COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICES THE ABILITY TO CARRY AND ADMINISTER LIFE SAVING EPI PENS RATHER THAN HAVING TO WAIT FOR EMS TO ARRIVE. 
WE HAD AN ISSUE THIS PAST SUMMER WHERE WE ACTUALLY HAD AN INDIVIDUAL PULL UP TO ONE OF OUR DEPUTIES IN THE SUBSTATION WHO WORKED FOR A LANDSCAPER, AND HE HAD GOTTEN STUNG, I THINK BY MORE THAN ONE HORNET GETTING A HORNET'S NEST. HE SAID I'M HAVING TROUBLE BREATHING. SO IN THE AREA THAT WE PATROL, PRIMARILY THE RURAL PARTS OF THE COUNTY, IN A LOT OF CASES IT MIGHT BE A FEW MINUTES FOR AN AMBULANCE TO GET TO A CALL. SOMEONE WHO'S HAVING AN ALLERGIC REACTION AND THEY'RE HAVING AN EPISODE OF ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK. THEY MAY NOT HAVE VERY LONG TO LIVE IF THEY CAN'T GET EPINEPHRINE.