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SGEM#179: Chase the Dragon and Naloxone

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

[display_podcast] Date: May 19th, 2017 Reference: Willman et al. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Richard Hamilton (@RJHamiltonMD) is Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. display_podcast] Date: May 19th, 2017 Reference: Willman et al. Reference: Willman et al. Clinical Toxicology 2017.

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EMS vs. EMT: Clarifying Roles in Emergency Healthcare

EMT Training Station

In the realm of emergency healthcare, the terms EMS (Emergency Medical Services) and EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) are often used interchangeably, yet they represent distinct aspects of medical response and care.

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Optimizing Demand Forecasts

High Performance EMS

Emergency medical services across the country are reporting employee turn-over rates of around a quarter of their staff annually. Figure 2 Sample data demonstrating ALS (green) and BLS (blue) call volume comparisons by hour-of-the-day and day-of-the-week.

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Most EMS Terminology Comes Down to Initials, Abbreviations and Acronyms

NCOAE

Today we’re taking a more serious look at language, this time highlighting the terminology used by members of the Emergency Medical Service (EMS) community. That’s because one of our areas of focus here at The National Center for Outdoor & Adventure Education (NCOAE) is emergency medicine training and education.

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From the President’s Desk: HEMS in Cork

Irish College of Paramedics

The recent discussions regarding the crew composition of the proposed Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) in Cork require comment from paramedicine. 2000, Stiell et al. 2004, Jayaraman et al. 2014), BLS (Sanghavi et al. Irish Journal of Paramedicine. link] under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 Nichol , G.,