Opioid response, by a narrow margin, was chosen as the top EMS trend of 2018 by respondents to a mid-year EMS1 poll question.
Here is how nearly 100 people responded to the question, “What will be the biggest EMS trend of 2018?”
Here are articles to learn more about each of these topics:
Opioid response
Paramedic Chief Digital: Defining EMS providers’ role in the opioid epidemic
Collateral damage: How the opioid crisis has impacted first responders
Stop the Bleed training
New app teaches civilians how to ‘Stop the Bleed’
How to avoid the most common active shooter training mistakes
Community paramedicine
How to prove the value of community paramedicine
5 things community paramedics need to know about the opioid epidemic
Prehospital ultrasound
Trending: Expanded use of prehospital point of care ultrasound (P-POCUS)
Prove It: Prehospital ultrasound improves diagnosis, treatment and transport decisions
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