As AI tools move quickly from concept to deployment, EMS leaders face practical questions about value, risk and readiness. This series provides clear, applied guidance for chiefs, directors and agency leaders on how to evaluate and implement AI to support clinical care, reduce documentation burden, improve decision-making, streamline operations and simplify workforce management.
Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore on recognizing EMS as an essential service with the funding and career pathways to match
SPOTLIGHT ON AI
Closing out the year with a rapid-fire look at what frontline providers are really saying — from spinal immobilization, to swiping through microlearning
LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS
Waiting to complete an electronic patient care report, long after the call, compromises its importance to the patient and the EMS provider
Most of us who are minorities want what everyone else wants – a fair chance to work in an honorable profession, and be respected for what we can do
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
Prepare ahead of time to eliminate ‘slow’ responses that require greater thought from your care of critically ill children
EMS providers need to be more aware of and train regularly for high risk-low frequency events
Presenters from the NHTSA office of EMS discuss military medic to civilian EMS, development of evidence-based EMS guidelines, and ground ambulance crash data
The national project will create a meaningful process to measure EMS systems and improve performance across systems
In this issue: Page, Wolfberg & Wirth cautions leaders to set the tone for their workplace; EMS Strong 2015 advocacy campaign launched