EMS WMD Response Supplies Articles
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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
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Why all EMS providers should be pre-planning hospital evacuations
Pre-plan, build, and stock equipment that can serve as a future ambulance and specialty vehicle in the event of emergency evacuation
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After-action report: Tactical EMS lessons from terror attack
Training rescue task force medics and SWAT medics for responding to mass casualty incidents
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Training day: Disaster response, transporting patients from the scene
From full-scale to tabletop exercises, preparing for a mass casualty incident should be part of disaster management training
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How to buy an incident-management system for EMS operations
Look for these six features when adding technology to incident management, especially for large-scale incidents
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Rapid Response: Paramedic preparation, response to police shot at mass gatherings
As we mourn the deaths of five Dallas police officers paramedics are reminded of the importance in being cautious, calm and conspicuous as caregivers
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Inside EMS Special Podcast: How to prepare for and respond to violence at protests
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
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How terrorists target and attack health care facilities and personnel
"Terrorism & the Medical Environment" is designed to help save lives, money, property and medical professionals who are the victims and saviors of terrorist attacks
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Redefining 'All Clear' in active-shooter response
Once the shooter is dead or apprehended, the top mission for police and EMS is to stop the dying from bleeding and airway compromise
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When disaster strikes in the U.S., the National Disaster Medical System responds
The nation's medical tactical response team answers the call when mass casualty medical care is needed
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How to practice the EMS response to an MCI
Regularly reviewing and practicing MCI skills will make sure EMS personnel are ready to act when a major incident happens
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Orlando shooting is latest teaching event for emergency responders
EMS leaders and providers need to study successes and failures as an opportunity to reduce death and disability from the next mass shooting
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Rapid Response: Responders need to level-up to match lethal capability of mass shooters
EMS leaders, field personnel should review and reconsider their preparedness to respond to active shooters
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Drones for EMS: 5 ways to use a UAV today
Currently available drone technology has the ability to revolutionize situational awareness and improve responder safety
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Severe weather postpones NJ EMS Task Force Expo to 2016
Some areas of NJ are already experiencing street flooding and challenging travel from heavy rainfall
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Why police need to train to use and carry an IFAK
Follow expert recommendations for cops to quickly care for rapid bleeding or airway obstruction
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Bomb scare sparked by suspicious device in NC ambulance
Hazmat crews and a bomb squad determined there was no threat; investigators are trying to determine how the object got inside the rig
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Deafening silence: EMS chiefs' response to triage best practices
Without the right triage training and MCI supplies EMS field personnel are ill prepared to be the masters of disaster
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Train collision injures more than 300 in South Africa
Paramedics treated passengers with minor to serious injuries all around the commuter train wreck
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San Francisco ambulance response times investigated by grand jury
The 19-member civilian panel found limited progress because of understaffing, deferred maintenance costs, outdated facilities and a lack of strategic planning
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Mo. agency adds ambulance bus to its fleet
The new vehicle is a faster and easier way to get multiple patients to the hospital
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Boston Marathon bomber sentenced to death
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
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Okla. paramedic recalls response to OKC bombing
Responding to the Oklahoma City Bombing was a lifetime of experience in a single day for EMSA paramedic Joe Wallace
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Vt. responders learn to deploy portable hospital
Insulated tents have 20-beds, medical operations room, medical supplies, oxygen and water systems
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Taliban attack children at Pakistani school, killing 126
Some students were receiving first-aid training with Pakistani army medics when the violence began
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