A key challenge for the EMS community is to build stronger partnerships with the emergency department and more effective communication, especially during the critical period before arrival. If EMS communication with the ED is ineffective, these three problems may arise: Delayed response from the emergency...
The advent of increased violence against EMS providers by patients, caregivers or bystanders have lead EMS leaders to seriously consider the use of body-worn cameras (BWCs). Since the officer-involved shooting death in Ferguson, Missouri many law enforcement agencies adopted their use. The EMS community is...
Emergency medical services can have an increasing role in clinical medicine, and how services are delivered in the community during the coming year. Here are some of the biggest challenges facing emergency medical services in 2018: Preparation and responses for active shooter events The number of...
When seconds count will you be prepared to help a victim who is bleeding profusely? Even if emergency responders are on the way, it is important to stop the bleeding during these critical minutes. It is a matter of life and death since a person...
The future may have arrived with the help of drones carrying heart defibrillators that can swoop down to help bystanders revive individuals in cardiac arrest. Researchers have been working on this concept and tested it out on 18 people stricken by cardiac arrest. The drone...
Your chances of survival are less likely on the day of a race if you live nearby and are trying to get to the hospital for emergency heart care, according to a study published April 12, 2017 by the New England Journal of Medicine (www.nejm.org). ...
The London terror attack in March 2017 whereby pedestrians were mown down by a car on Westminster Bridge highlights the urgency needed for EMS preparedness. The 2016 ramming terrorist attack in Nice, France on Bastille Day with the loss of 84 people and over 200...
EMS plays a vital role in identification and early intervention of life threatening conditions. Most paramedic education programs provide ample training in prehospital care for cardiac arrest, and ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), but little emphasis on prehospital identification or management of sepsis. In the...
Nearly 1 in 5 Americans may be dying unnecessarily due to car accidents, gunshot wounds and other traumatic injuries, according to a report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The report’s findings take on a new urgency in light of the mass...
Criminal defense attorney and former paramedic David Givot, Esq., recently posted an article in EMS1.com about the three lessons EMS personnel should learn from watching the 10 part Netflix documentary “Making a Murderer.” The documentary, which has become widely popular, reveals many lessons EMS personnel should...