EMS WMD Response Supplies Articles

How to prepare for and react after contact with emerging opioids

Manufactured, concocted and blended opioids require EMS training, PPE and decontamination strategies

MRSA, fentanyl, bed bugs: What are you bringing home with you?

Limit your exposure and clean the ambulance and your clothing before heading home after shift to avoid contaminating your home and loved ones

Why all EMS providers should be pre-planning hospital evacuations

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Pre-plan, build, and stock equipment that can serve as a future ambulance and specialty vehicle in the event of emergency evacuation

After-action report: Tactical EMS lessons from terror attack

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Training rescue task force medics and SWAT medics for responding to mass casualty incidents

Training day: Disaster response, transporting patients from the scene

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From full-scale to tabletop exercises, preparing for a mass casualty incident should be part of disaster management training

How to buy an incident-management system for EMS operations

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Look for these six features when adding technology to incident management, especially for large-scale incidents

Rapid Response: Paramedic preparation, response to police shot at mass gatherings

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As we mourn the deaths of five Dallas police officers paramedics are reminded of the importance in being cautious, calm and conspicuous as caregivers

Inside EMS Special Podcast: How to prepare for and respond to violence at protests

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Chris Cebollero and Greg Friese discuss the tragic deaths of five Dallas police officers and the immediate steps EMS leaders need to take to prepare their crews for violence at mass gatherings

How terrorists target and attack health care facilities and personnel

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"Terrorism & the Medical Environment" is designed to help save lives, money, property and medical professionals who are the victims and saviors of terrorist attacks

Redefining 'All Clear' in active-shooter response

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Once the shooter is dead or apprehended, the top mission for police and EMS is to stop the dying from bleeding and airway compromise

When disaster strikes in the U.S., the National Disaster Medical System responds

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The nation's medical tactical response team answers the call when mass casualty medical care is needed

How to practice the EMS response to an MCI

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Regularly reviewing and practicing MCI skills will make sure EMS personnel are ready to act when a major incident happens

Orlando shooting is latest teaching event for emergency responders

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EMS leaders and providers need to study successes and failures as an opportunity to reduce death and disability from the next mass shooting

Rapid Response: Responders need to level-up to match lethal capability of mass shooters

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EMS leaders, field personnel should review and reconsider their preparedness to respond to active shooters

Drones for EMS: 5 ways to use a UAV today

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Currently available drone technology has the ability to revolutionize situational awareness and improve responder safety

Severe weather postpones NJ EMS Task Force Expo to 2016

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Some areas of NJ are already experiencing street flooding and challenging travel from heavy rainfall

Why police need to train to use and carry an IFAK

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Follow expert recommendations for cops to quickly care for rapid bleeding or airway obstruction

Bomb scare sparked by suspicious device in NC ambulance

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Hazmat crews and a bomb squad determined there was no threat; investigators are trying to determine how the object got inside the rig

Deafening silence: EMS chiefs' response to triage best practices

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Without the right triage training and MCI supplies EMS field personnel are ill prepared to be the masters of disaster

Train collision injures more than 300 in South Africa

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Paramedics treated passengers with minor to serious injuries all around the commuter train wreck

San Francisco ambulance response times investigated by grand jury

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The 19-member civilian panel found limited progress because of understaffing, deferred maintenance costs, outdated facilities and a lack of strategic planning

Mo. agency adds ambulance bus to its fleet

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The new vehicle is a faster and easier way to get multiple patients to the hospital

Boston Marathon bomber sentenced to death

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Unanimous jury decision sets the stage for execution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in what could be the nation's first execution of a terrorist in the post-9/11 era