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  EPIC: An EMS-centered approach to head injuries

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  Through the EPIC treatment, EMS providers are taught to focus on the three H-bombs to prevent further damage to head injuries

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  Silent but deadly: The trauma we miss in geriatric care

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  Improve your patient assessment of traumatic injuries in geriatric medicine

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  5 tips for securing a patient's airway

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  You are on scene with a patient who has suffered significant facial trauma; what are some strategies to improve your ability to manage his airway?

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  Clinical scenario: Patient with facial trauma

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  You are dispatched to a report of a male patient involved in a bicycle accident

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  Why recent acts of mass violence should change the way EMS, fire and police train

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  By working together to combat acts of mass violence, public safety agencies will save more lives

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  Is there a limit on the civilian scope of practice?

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  The expectation of civilians to respond to emergencies has expanded from care of close friends and family to caring for bystanders and stopping attackers

• 'Stop the Bleed' campaign continues outreach amid gun violence

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  In Chicago, more than 3,000 people have been shot this year, and the victim of a gunshot wound can bleed to death in only five minutes

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  EMS and the evolution of first aid training

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  EMS providers need to be involved in educating communities in how to provide the initial response to critically injured patients

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  What your community needs to know about the 'Until Help Arrives' program

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  The program aims to teach bystanders how to keep victims with life-threatening injuries alive until EMS arrives

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  Patient management in the technical rescue environment

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  Medical Director Jeremy Cushman encourages BLS providers to develop medical preplans for technical rescue scenarios they may encounter

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  What are the benefits, risks of binding a pelvic fracture?

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  World Trauma Symposium speaker describes pelvic fracture anatomy, pathophysiology and evidence for reducing bleeding and improving patient survival with a pelvic splint

• Paramedic recalls ‘agonizing’ decisions made during Las Vegas shooting rescue

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  “People were begging me to take them because they were in so much pain,” paramedic Dean Weber said

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  Rapid response: Triage mass shooter patients as treatable by lay people or medical professionals

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  Protection from above and layperson bleeding control are among the immediate takeaways from Las Vegas mass shooting for EMS personnel and paramedic chiefs

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  3 questions raised by private vs. ambulance transport study

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  A study that finds trauma patients fare better when they don't wait for EMS to arrive sparks uproar, questions

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  Poll result: Should shooting, stabbing victims self-transport or wait for EMS?

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  We asked the EMS1 community to sound off on which option they thought was best; here are their responses

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