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• Imaginary Barriers: How HIPAA promotes bidirectional data exchange

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  NEMSIS-TAC and PWW produce definitive guidance on HIPAA – essential to aid the progression of MIH

• Back to basics: Perfusion

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  Learn how to assess for deficiencies of a patient’s 3 Ps: pump, pipes and plasma

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  Training Day: 3 steps for bleeding control (not necessarily in order)

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  Bound Tree Medical

  We’ve all been taught the sequence of how to control bleeding, but what about teaching it out of order (and for good reason)?

• COVID-19: How public safety companies are assisting the frontline pandemic response

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  The businesses that equip and serve first responders are supporting the national emergency response with new products, free services and donations

• Face masks: Here’s what cops, firefighters, medics and COs have to say about use, policy and effectiveness

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  Nearly one-third of public safety personnel do not get a department-issued face mask, plus other key findings from nearly 4,000 survey responses

• COVID-19 airway management, PPE precautions

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  Protect EMS providers while preventing the unnecessary depletion of already diminished PPE supplies

• Learning from mistakes, before they become tragedies

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  Non-punitive near-miss reporting can prevent serious injury or line-of-duty deaths by relying on the group’s collective experience

• 2020 EMS Trend Report: Heed industry warning signs, commit to change

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  EMS1 and Fitch & Associates take an in-depth look at EMS trends in the U.S. and set a foundation for assessing how the EMS profession is changing

• Pinnacle 2020 Quick Take: How to lead through the COVID-19 rollercoaster

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  The EMS Leadership Round Table tackles community messaging, public health funding and caring for the caregivers at the Virtual Pinnacle Leadership Summit

• The 3-part EMS assessment: Your patient, your partner and yourself

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  Check-in on how you and your partner are functioning during difficult calls, and learn when and how to take a productive break

• Laughter may be the best medicine, but only if we titrate it to effect

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  8 ways to moderate humor to improve patient connection and care, and avoid taking it too far

• EMS in the news: A 50 year milestone, hazard pay and ambulance safety

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  Our co-hosts discuss several EMS items in the news and how they impact first responders on the ground

• Survey: Are you wearing a face mask on duty?

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  Reviewing policies and best practices for public safety personnel wearing face masks on- and off-duty

• 2 medics, patient seriously injured in Mo. rig crash

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  The driver of another vehicle involved in the crash was arrested on suspicion of DWI

• Equipment sanitization: One department’s process to reuse PPE

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  How vaporized hydrogen peroxide can be used to disinfect used PPE for fire and EMS personnel

• How to use SAMPLE history as an effective patient assessment tool

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  Use SAMPLE history to assess the patient's complaint and make treatment decisions

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