Technology
The technology topic will keep you up to speed on new EMS technologies including improved emergency communications and high-tech EMS technologies.
In the prehospital setting, we haven’t traditionally been able to see inside of our patients to tell what’s going on, but we’ve always been able to hear, and that skillset remains invaluable for the EMS professional
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What3words has made it possible to locate any place on earth in just three words, and PSAPs are taking notice
How Verizon is currently innovating for public safety toward a safer, more efficient future
The Radio Ambulance generates a frequency sweep to all AM/FM radios and broadcasting a 5 second message
The new knife analyzes the smoke and can instantly signal whether the tissue is cancerous or healthy
The LAFD’s aging technology was criticized last week by the Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Many experts said mobile phones have a low output of only 3 to 5 volts, which isn’t enough to harm the human body
Terminated worker claims e-mail was hacked
EMS, fire, police calls handled by cell phones
Many key attributes of the EMS provider cannot be learned through books alone
Device could be used to display information to rescuers, not unlike the technology used by fighter pilots to project data onto windshields
One method that has helped me is tracking my accomplishments toward turning the goal into a habit
Technology may help refine our dispatch info
With support from the NSF, his team designed several innovative smart phone apps that virtually place 911 operators at the scene of an emergency
There’s been many developments over the years and this creates a gaze into a collective crystal ball for what the future might bring
A new scanner can be held against a patient’s head and near-infrared light shows dark areas in or near the brain that indicates dangerous bleeding
Students say they do not realize how little room they had to operate in until they went inside the simulator
The newer system takes traffic and all of those ever-changing factors into account before recommending a route for a call
A variety of medical conditions and patient presentations warrant prehospital blood glucose analysis
Alerts are broadcast from cell towers and warn everyone in range who has a device that is capable of receiving a wireless emergency alert
The man was arrested after circumventing traffic with a police siren app on his smartphone, which he plugged into his car stereo so it played over the car’s speakers
The four-way industry collaboration around the “It Can Wait” campaign targets teens in particular
Statistics suggest we need better head protection
Grafts placed under the skin of mice matured into fully formed bone tissue with the beginnings of a blood supply
The clamp aims to allow medics, soldiers and first responders to better treat massive hemorrhage
U.S. partners in Ghana will begin using a federally developed handheld device to screen for fake or diluted versions of two common malaria pills
It’s more than videoconferencing; data is the name of the game
California-based bio-printing pioneers Organovo created the mini organs by using the machine to build up around 20 layers of liver cells
He powered onstage, sirens blaring, aboard one of his signature “ambu-cycles,” stunning his audience at the Kennedy Center
While robots are nothing new in law enforcement, the “SWAT Bot” is designed for specifically for ballistic shield purposes
