EMS Advocacy
The EMS advocacy topic features related articles, news, resources and videos concerning EMS issues and efforts to keep them in the forefront.
This episode reveals data-driven insights into tiered response models, community funding wins, and the growing role of local stories in national EMS advocacy
For EMTs, grief is often a surprising reaction to every day interactions with patients and their loved ones
Alan Cowen, fire deputy chief (ret.) Los Angeles City Fire Department, reflects on leadership lessons
Mike and Ilce Corvin’s Spirit Ride started last June in Massachusetts and has covered some 16,000 miles and 150 cities so far
Our co-hosts also discuss the recording of their 200th episode and reflect on the past four years
Brewster Ambulance paramedic Erika Apicella said her “greatest birthday present” was being able to spend her last two birthdays saving patients’ lives
Jay Fitch discusses EMS trends, from finding value in data, to the EMS Agenda 2050 project, that will highlight the retreat-like conference in Phoenix
Paramedics that were involved in caring for and resuscitating patients going into cardiac arrest, patients going into labor and other services were honored
“Unit 68” is meant to inspire future generations to become EMTs or paramedics and follows a boy who meets his future self on a mysterious ambulance
Preserving civility as ladies and gentlemen is reason enough to be reasonable
Tyler Christifulli shares his perspective on imminent cardiac arrest, surgical airways and how humming manages stress on calls
Join NAEMT in Washington, D.C., to discuss change in EMS before congressional representatives
John Dillon still rides a regular shift for his hometown squad four decades after serving as a volunteer while still in high school
The annual campaign will bring together resources that are committed to fortifying the EMS community and increasing National EMS Week awareness
First do no harm is a worthy EMS goal, but should not supersede all others
Our co-hosts discuss the week’s news, including an article about how Florida EMS agencies said they were delayed in the school shooting response
Sydney Fitzgibbons said she was inspired to become a paramedic after recovering from her disorder that put her in “ICUs about 20 times in two years”
When paramedics found high school student Maddy Wilford, they thought she was dead due to the multiple gunshot wounds she had suffered
“Please DO block our street and parking spaces if needed!” the note said, which added that first responders are “unsung heroes”
The measure calls for the issuance of “red personalized plates to volunteer emergency responders at no initial or annual cost to the volunteer
Modern research is dispelling treatment misconceptions and out-of-date practices that are limiting the standard of care
What will you do to improve prehospital medicine and your community?
“From March 11 to 17, we are emphasizing that safety in the delivery of healthcare is the highest priority all the time,” CPS executive director Alex Christgen said
A retired rescue captain looks back on a career of helping others and tells the stories of doing his best to make a difference
Bonner County EMS posted a Facebook video of a crew taking “advantage of the return of winter” to honor the Olympics with an event of their own
The firefighter/paramedic worked in Florida’s “wild, wild west”
Mobile Medical Response is paying students $9 an hour to complete the classes, so long as they continue their paramedic education afterward
Joseph Bitetto reunited with Howard Blanck, who saved him as a baby, during FDNY’s EMS graduation ceremony
Mary Andrews, who is also a registered nurse, began her EMS career as chief of a three-person crew and stored the ambulance in her garage
The “public safety president” can use the bully pulpit to do much, much more for EMS and other public safety personnel
A full day pre-conference was dedicated to providing meaningful tools that NAEMSP Annual Meeting attendees could apply at their home agencies
EMS can be a major player in clinical medicine, operational delivery and healthcare changes, decreasing morbidity and mortality
Separating community health care and 911 response will help distinguish EMS as first responders
