EMS Training and Education
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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
The nation’s medical tactical response team answers the call when mass casualty medical care is needed
Learn to distinguish and verify electrical and mechanical capture when using a transcutaneous pacemaker on a patient with symptomatic bradycardia
Gather round to learn the out-of-date and obsolete EMT skills that the Ambulance Driver has outlasted during his EMS career
Use this hands-on training exercise to improve equipment familiarity, reinforce medication cross-check processes and increase provider confidence to treat sick kids
There is a significant correlation between operational stress, organizational stress, critical incident stress, alcohol use and post-traumatic stress
A recent story shows the importance of understanding how to handle patients threatening suicide and that we’ve got a lot of opportunity to improve training and response
400 instructors, volunteers and patient actors, along with with 26 ambulances and two helicopters, helped paramedic students complete 70 different scenarios
STARS in Manitoba helicopters will fly with two units of O-negative blood for patient use on scene or during transport to a trauma center
Share your results and challenge your EMS colleagues to prove they learned and retained the preparatory information from EMT school
The National Academies report stressed the U.S. must do more to encourage coordination, collaboration and standardization in trauma care
Educators must use these four steps when planning to add stress to a drill for EMT and paramedic students
Focus on assessing and treating the patient’s basic life threats before interrogating bystanders or investigating the scene
You were asked to assess and treat a 22-year-old woman with an obvious leg fracture and there was a disagreement about how to proceed; did you make the right call?
EMS leaders and providers need to study successes and failures as an opportunity to reduce death and disability from the next mass shooting
The private ambulances have eased D.C. Fire and EMS’s ability to respond to emergency calls
Epinephrine is now labeled for mass dose, like other medications, which is an important step toward patient safety
After last weekend’s mass shooting in Orlando, first responders reevaluate their planned MCI response
Paramedics practiced putting dogs under anesthesia, inserting breathing tubes, setting up intravenous fluids, bandaging, using oxygen masks and shaving fur to find veins
Most EMS providers have witnessed or been involved with a medication error attributable to poor system design and lack of safety behaviors
Along with citing the need for more minority positions within the departments, there were significant gaps in the hiring of female candidates
It can take less than 10 seconds for an average adult to become completely submerged in a grain bin accident
The game gives players the opportunity to exchange ideas, participate in interactive discussions on medication safety and to practice drug calculations
Our co-hosts pay tribute to the late Richard Beebe, and discuss their love-hate relationship with EMS
One main goal of the exercise is to test how well they will work together to minimize loss of life and damages when a mega-quake unleashes a tsunami
The instructional ambulance simulator for the Southwestern Illinois Community College paramedic program carries on the legacy of paramedic Michelle Heap
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The impact of Beebe’s life work will live on in the students he trained and the service he provided to the National Association of EMS Educators and CECBEMS
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