EMS Training and Education
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EMS Training and Education Resources
Practical, authentic ways to show gratitude and strengthen community ties with the people who respond first when it matters most
5 tips to quickly find a patient’s radial pulse for vital sign assessment
Educating patients at the highest risk for suffering a fatal overdose
Kate Boyd Dernocoeur contemplates the art and science of prehospital care, and how streetsense enhances the skills learned in EMS training
How communities are saving lives by understanding where and when overdoses occur
Don’t let this exam end your firefighting career before it starts
7 Marines, 4 soldiers believed to be killed in an Army helicopter crash during a night-time training mission
The fire chief apologized to the family and ordered his crews to undergo training on how to deal with combative patients
Workshop, funded by a grant to expand pediatric medical education, used pig lungs, hearts, and tracheas for hands-on training
The cliché “knowledge is power” is essential to EMS.
The national EMS conference in Baltimore spotlights the opportunities for EMS to move forward and the important challenges EMS professionals face
Guest Kip Tietsort explores the importance of training EMS providers to use critical thinking skills to handle a violent patient situation
We don’t all need to be EMS lawyers but knowing a few basics about the impact of court decisions will make you a better EMS provider
EMS can determine when to administer nitroglycerine by utilizing the Lifepak 15 – placing EKG electrodes on the wrists and ankles in anticipation of running a full 12-lead EKG
Suspensions were chosen because the firefighters had not been trained on how to handle a violent situation
Emotion-provoking videos and images intended to educate public about the vital services provided by medics
Read the response and add your own thoughts in the comments
Syncope is common and can be a warning sign of a structural or electrical abnormality in the heart that may cause sudden death
Documentary film tells story of Freedom House creating jobs and providing a crucial service to the community in the 1960s
EMS1 columnist Kelly Grayson is keynote speaker for the inaugural conference that will feature nationally known educators
The course can be tailored to meet specific training needs
Advances in technology should continue to create ventilators that are smaller, more user friendly, and easily adaptable to the pre-hospital environment
Pressure manometers, filters, a good seal and a two-person approach can all help improve effective airway ventilation
Epi, a long-time staple of ACLS, does not improve neurologically intact survival and may even harm the patient
Presenters from the NHTSA office of EMS discuss military medic to civilian EMS, development of evidence-based EMS guidelines, and ground ambulance crash data
Jon Puryear presented an engaging and hands-on session that stressed understanding normal waveforms to recognize what’s abnormal
They used a newly acquired drone to record the simulated rescue of victim with a broken pelvis trapped 20 feet down a water well
Firefighter Patrick Cullum discusses the pain and lessons from an incident that killed Chief Kenneth Lehr and his desire to honor his mentor and friend
EMS providers use hands-on dissection to learn and practice emergency ventilation and hemorrhage control procedures
Connecticut EMS director, Ray Barishansky, shares the realities and pitfalls of leadership and supervision in EMS
