By Rosalind S. Helderman
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — As Maryland lawmakers wrestle with the future of the state’s emergency medical service following the fatal crash of a state helicopter taking accident victims to a hospital, a private company has come forward with a new concern about the independent agency.
The company accuses state EMS leaders of dragging their feet in releasing the results of a study of a new method for triaging patients in mass casualty incidents, a method that company leaders believe could save lives.
In a Jan. 19 letter, Thomas B. McCord, the chief executive of Bel Air-based ThinkSharp, wrote that the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services System, the group that oversees all emergency medicine in the state, had displayed “disregard, disbelief and delay” about the results of the April 2007 study that the company conducted jointly with the state group.
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