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<title>1 dead, 12 hurt in explosion at Ill. firm </title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Jamie Sotonoff and Melissa Silverberg Chicago Daily Herald ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. &mdash; Investigators will be back today at Arens Controls in Arlington Heights to try to determine what caused the explosion Tuesday that killed one employee and injured 12 other people, including three police officers and two firefighters. Neil Nicholson of Itasca suffered serious injuries in the explosion and was ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:29:49 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>15 hurt when Mass. van rolls</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Sara Feijo The Patriot Ledger NANTUCKET &mdash; Several South Shore residents were among 15 passengers injured when a UMass van went off the road and rolled over during a field trip Monday. Among the injured were Katherine Carroll, Thomas Kelleher, Charlene Costin and Cynthia Kelleher of Hingham; Richard Rousseau of Canton; Barbara Richardson of Holbrook; and Denise Sullivan of Milton. Also injured ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:25:29 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>EMS Week Contest: The best of humanity in the worst of times</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Patrick Nance, paramedic I had been interested in first aid since my days as a Boy Scout. My interest took me through a short stint as a firefighter, five years as a professional ski patrolman and finally to an audition for the American Heart Association in 1987. The job paid $1,000, which was exactly the tuition for EMT/Paramedic school. It was kismet, and I knew what I had to do. So I enrolled ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 22:41:41 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Records: Joplin twister was costliest since 1950</title>
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<description><![CDATA[About 2 dozen school districts, emergency agencies, public housing authorities, religious groups, other nonprofits could receive taxpayer money through FEMA]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 18:15:49 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Student dies, 7 hurt in blast near Italian school</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Frances D&#39;Emilio The Associated Press ROME &mdash; A bomb exploded Saturday outside an Italian high school named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor, killing a student and wounding several others, officials said, and rattling a country already tense over a spate of attacks on government officials and buildings. The device went off a few minutes before 8 a.m. in the Adriatic port town of Brindisi ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 18:06:31 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Basic Strategies to Help Manage a MCI - Part 2</title>
<author><![CDATA[Jim Sideras]]></author>
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<description><![CDATA[The difference between strategies and tactics is an important concept to understand. Strategies are the overall goals you are trying to accomplish, while the tactics are the methods to obtain the goals. The overall strategic priorities that need to be accomplished for a MCI are the three Ts: triage, treatment and transporting patients.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:16:53 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Basic Strategies to Help Manage a MCI - Part 1</title>
<author><![CDATA[Jim Sideras]]></author>
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<description><![CDATA[The military has a saying, "Prior planning prevents poor performance." However, in our world we are often too busy keeping daily operations running to find time to preplan for a mass casualty incident. A MCI may be a once in a career event, and that mindset makes it easy to put the planning and preparation for one on the back burner. Hopefully, this article will make you move your plans forward. Having ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:59:06 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Pre-planning tips for EMS highlighted at FDIC session</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pre-planning tips for EMS providers were highlighted during a session at the Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC) in Indianapolis last month.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 20:38:18 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>MCI Response Tips</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MCI criteria differ among agencies. Regardless of your squad's size, here are some tips you can use in such a scenario to provide the best possible care.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:36:58 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Psychological First Aid</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In large-scale disasters and traumas, more people will be mentally affected than physically. Discover more about the new developments of Psychological First Aid.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:25:22 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Family Disaster Preparedness</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Try doing these things to help prepare your family in case of a natural disaster, so that you can go and help others.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 5 May 2009 00:23:53 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Keep a Three-Day Emergency Kit Handy</title>
<author><![CDATA[EMS1 Staff]]></author>
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<description><![CDATA[Make sure you can stay self-sufficient in the event of an emergency]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 3 Oct 2008 23:26:17 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>CDC Publishes Report on Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response Activities</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CDC's Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER) released its inaugural report on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&rsquo;s (CDC) activities in public health emergency preparedness. The report, Public Health Preparedness: Strengthening CDC's Emergency Response, outlines the key role CDC plays in preparing our nation to respond effectively to all types ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:26:58 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>GSA Launches Program to Support State and Local First Responders</title>
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<description><![CDATA[State and local governments have a new way to buy supplies and services to prepare for and respond to all types of emergencies under a program established by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) earlier this month. The Cooperative Purchasing Program allows state and local agencies to buy law enforcement, security, and first responder goods and services off a GSA contract known as Schedule ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:33:16 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>NASEMSO Encourages Funding for Trauma and EMS</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As a signatory through the Coalition for American Trauma Care, NASEMSO supports a Continuing Resolution to the FY 2009 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bills that would reconstitute the HRSA Trauma/EMS Program and continue funding for the EMS-C program. For more information or to view the letters, visit the NASEMSO web site at www.nasemso.org or http://www.traumacoalition.org/correspond.htm.  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:34:41 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>CDC Provides New Blast Injury Fact Sheets</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with partners from the Terrorism Injuries Information, Dissemination and Exchange (TIIDE) Project, have developed fact sheets for health care providers that provide detailed information on the treatment of blast injuries.These fact sheets address background, clinical presentation, diagnostic evaluation, management and disposition ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 5 Sep 2008 23:39:02 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>HHS Proposes Adoption of ICD-10 Code Sets and Updated Electronic Transaction Standards</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Proposed Changes Would Improve Disease Tracking and Speed Transition to an Electronic Health Care Environment The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced a long-awaited proposed regulation that would replace the ICD-9-CM code sets now used to report health care diagnoses and procedures with greatly expanded ICD-10 code sets, effective Oct. 1, 2011. In a separate proposed regulation ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 5 Sep 2008 23:33:26 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>EMS mass casualty training</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Paramedic students participate in a simulation activity for a mass casualty incident. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 1 Mar 2012 00:05:43 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Alternative Airway Management using the King Airway</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The King Airway is a disposable and latex-free supraglottic device created as an alternative to conventional tracheal intubation.  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:55:29 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>What about the Patient? Rethinking triage</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new patient outcome based triage methodology has been developed by Dr. Bill Sacco, one of the world authorities on trauma management, which puts the patients' survival outcome as the highest priority within the resources currently available in your EMS and Trauma System. The Sacco Triage Method (STM) utilizes sound science, is evidence based from beginning to end, and is used everyday on every trauma ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:16:39 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>DMAT and Mass Gathering Medicine</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The National Disaster Medical System has trained teams available to respond to local areas overwhelmed by disaster. Each team has a variety of capabilities and the capability to be self sufficient for 72 hours and treat up to 250 patients a day. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:21:35 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>NIMS: The Role of EMS</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This segment describes the role of the National Incident Management System in standardizing response to multiple casualty events. The five key command positions are identified. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:21:49 UTC</pubDate>

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