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
EMS unit hour utilization is always calculated as the number of transports divided by the total number of unit hours in the measurement interval
Even in hard financial times, innovation and leadership can go a long way in making things work, but those seem in short supply in Detroit
Edward J. Gabriel will present on subject of “EMS, Emergency and Disaster Response in the Changing World of Health Care”
Community abuzz over lack of background checks when plenty of our colleagues manage to besmirch EMS’s reputation with clean arrest records
Some EMTs have hidden their sordid and criminal histories because no background checks are required in NJ
Scene sizeup takes a few seconds yet is worth every single moment, but witnesses might not perceive it that way
Although you might not realize it or ever even know, someone will see you at your best moments and your worst
NNT has influenced prehospital care, including use of CPAP and going from ABC to CAB in CPR practice
In nearly every set of clinical protocols, there are provisions for EMS personnel to exercise judgment when necessary