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NEMSQA Wins Nicholas Rosecrans Award for Reducing Ambulance Crashes with Lights and Siren Initiative

FirstWatch

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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Examining the 2020 Vision of EMS

High Performance EMS

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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The Effect of Paramedics in Emergency Department Triage on Ambulance Patient Offload Times

International Journal of Paramedicine

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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How Ute Pass’ MIH program centers care around the patient

ESO

 “Integrating community paramedicine into our community has helped give a voice to people that have historically been marginalized.”

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Telemedicine for Ambulance Crews Has a Future, Despite Fiasco of ET3

Pulsara

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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Can Situational Awareness Be Taught?

NAEMSP

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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The Colorado Verdict

Peter Canning

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.