FirstWatch

OCTOBER 7, 2024

NEMSQA Wins Nicholas Rosecrans Award for Reducing Ambulance Crashes with Lights and Siren Initiative LAS VEGAS, NV (September 18, 2024) – The National EMS Quality Alliance (NEMSQA) was honored as this year’s prestigious Nicholas Rosecrans Award winner for their exceptional work on the Lights and Siren Collaborative.

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High Performance EMS

JULY 13, 2020

The NHTSA Office of EMS released a significant document last year called the EMS Agenda 2050 that was carefully crafted to set a bold vision for the next 30 years of paramedicine by clearly differentiating the focus of care from its original definition in the 1996 EMS Agenda for the Future.

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International Journal of Paramedicine

APRIL 3, 2024

A program was implemented to decrease the time to patient handoff from EMS arrival to ED staff, also known as the delivery interval and total turnaround interval. Paramedics were added to the ED ambulance triage staff to receive verbal reports and perform certain tasks done traditionally by nurses.

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Pulsara

APRIL 17, 2024

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from an article by Larry Beresford, originally published on EMS World on April 3rd, 2024. Check out the full article here.

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NAEMSP

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Article by Karlee De Monnin CASE During my first ambulance ride-along as a fourth-year medical student on an EMS elective, my unit responded to a call for abdominal pain. The paramedics assisted the patient into the ambulance. I was focused on exploring the truck as it was my first time transporting a patient in an ambulance.

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Peter Canning

DECEMBER 26, 2023

So you are an expert on paramedicine, but isn’t it true that you yourself are guilty of (long list of failures)…” They still wanted me, so I then sent them a blog post titled “ Your Hono r” which detailed a call I was on where I dropped a patient and one where I found myself with an empty oxygen tank. The ambulance responded.

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The Overrun

MAY 18, 2020

This week is EMS Week. Usually, if you’re in EMS; this means some type of free meal, water bottle, bag, or other gift that symbolizes their respective agencies, hospitals, and healthcare systems thanking them for their service. Since the entry of COVID-19, EMS has noticed a difference. People wave. And that’s wrong.

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