American Ambulance Association

JANUARY 10, 2024

Dear ground ambulance providers and suppliers, Starting January 1, 2024, selected ground ambulance organizations in Year 3 and Year 4 are required to report cost, utilization, revenue, and other information to CMS.

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Ambulance 130

EMS 12-Lead

MARCH 30, 2024

We will be using redacted information from different cases where paramedics attempted TCP in the field. The patient is re-assessed once secured in the ambulance. Two paramedics are in the rear of the ambulance managing resuscitation (another crew had arrived and provided support with a driver).

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CPR Paramedic Ambulance Defibrillator 312

EMS 12-Lead

MAY 15, 2024

We will be using redacted information from different cases where paramedics attempted TCP in the field. The crew transferred the patient to the ambulance and noticed weak radial pulses (BP unobtainable). Details are edited and redacted to preserve patient anonymity. They administered 10 mcg of push-dose epinephrine.

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Epinephrine Paramedic CPR EMT 331

FirstWatch

JANUARY 2, 2025

Choisi is a research advisor at Urgences-sant, the largest ambulance service in the province of Quebec (Canada) and a fellow with the McNally Project for Paramedicine Research. FirstWatch values your time and privacy, and we will never sell your information. Thank you for your interest in this webinar.

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Paramedic EMD Emergency Medical Dispatch EMS 75

American Ambulance Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Dear Ground Ambulance Providers and Suppliers, Starting January 1, 2024, selected ground ambulance organizations in Year 3 and Year 4 are required to report cost, utilization, revenue, and other information to CMS.

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Ambulance 130

American Ambulance Association

MAY 12, 2024

DOT’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Infrastructure Requests Information What are the potential applications, opportunities and challenges of artificial […] The post NHTSA | What Are the Potential Applications for AI in EMS? appeared first on American Ambulance Association.

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EMS Ambulance 130

American Ambulance Association

MAY 28, 2024

On May 13, the AAA submitted a Comment Letter to the Department of Labor (DOL) in response to their Request for Information (RFI) on modernizing the process and updating the occupations […] The post AAA Submits Paramedic Expedited Visa Comments in Line with PARA-EMT Act appeared first on American Ambulance Association.

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EMT EMT Paramedic Ambulance 130

American Ambulance Association

JANUARY 15, 2024

The US Fire Administration (USFA) and Fire Safety Research Institute (FSRI) have announced the commencement of a national engagement period for the National Emergency Response Information System (NERIS) Draft Data Framework.

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Emergency Response Ambulance 130

High Performance EMS

AUGUST 9, 2024

Even that, however, was a step beyond the simpler model of a predetermined “ run card ” that often lacked any automated vehicle location (AVL) information at all. If available, the supervisor is added to effectively create an ALS transport ambulance. Today, we have many more decision constraints that complicate the assignment process.

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BLS CAD Advanced Life Support Life Support 264

Mile High Ambulance

MAY 20, 2016

EMS Week | May 15th – 21st More Information: EMSStrong.org Celebrating EMS Week This week marks the week long event dedicated to recognizing the wonderful people who put their lives on the line every day. The post EMS Week At Mile High Ambulance appeared first on Mile High Ambulance.

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Ambulance EMS 52

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MAY 2, 2020

Is Use of Warning Lights and Sirens Associated With Increased Risk of Ambulance Crashes? A Contemporary Analysis Using National EMS Information System (NEMSIS) Data. Is Use of Warning Lights and Sirens Associated With Increased Risk of Ambulance Crashes? Date: April 24th, 2020 Reference: Watanabe et al.

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ED Ambulance Medical Transportation EMS 100

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

JULY 1, 2020

As paramedics, whilst we often take great offence at being called ambulance drivers, the question is, when it’s our turn to drive, what exactly is it that we are providing? Do we fully engage in shared patient care with our attending partner, or do we switch off so that we can simply drive the ambulance and take it easy?

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Ambulance Driver Paramedic Ambulance OR 52

Irish College of Paramedics

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The industry has a fatigue problem, yet few have developed solutions informed by the evidence or best practice. Operating an ambulance is dangerous and fatigue can threaten safe operation of the vehicle, said Patterson. Half of EMS personnel obtain less than 6 hours of sleep per day.

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Emergency Medical Services EMS Ambulance Paramedic 40

Broken Paramedic

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Dear frontline ambulance colleagues, After 12 years of responding to 999 calls and subsequently watching from the sidelines as family and friends continue to do so, I am only too aware of the ever increasing pressures and the ongoing erosion of the ambulance clinicians’ lot. Thank you for contributing. ” Ouch.

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Ambulance Paramedic Ambulance Driver Heart Attack 52

Gold Cross Ambulance Service

JUNE 29, 2022

No two calls for an ambulance are ever exactly the same. In today’s blog, we take a closer look at 10 of the most common reasons that people call for an ambulance. So while this isn’t a specific look into the reasons why people end up needing a Gold Cross ambulance, a lot of the data mirrors our own.

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Ambulance Heart Attack Emergency Medical Services Overdose 52

High Performance EMS

MARCH 18, 2021

For any ambulance call, there are two potential segments of travel. If that distance is shortened by routinely prepositioning the ambulance closer to that next call, the response will automatically be safer for the crew and the public at large. Better information on traffic conditions makes for more efficient and safer route selection.

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UHU EMS Ambulance Unit Hour 130

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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Ambulance Community Paramedicine Paramedicine Paramedicine 52

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MARCH 22, 2019

You have ambulances ramping and patients queuing at triage. You have ambulances ramping and patients queuing at triage. There is a long list of things that they do including documentation of the clinical encounter, information retrieval, and discharge preparation. Case: The emergency department is backing up.

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EMR Emergency Department Ambulance ED 130

GEDC

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alice Peck Day also provides yellow socks to patients identified as fall risks to help staff members ensure that those patients are ambulating safely and using mobility devices when necessary. The screen autopopulates the information in the patients chart, so the needs that are identified in the screen are addressed during discharge.

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Emergency Department Ambulance OR 52

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

APRIL 8, 2023

The dataset also reported increasing admissions, mixed results on length of stay, increasing readmission rates, increasing COPD deaths if transported by ambulance, and expected productivity benefits were not realized. The SGEM advocated for having the evidence to inform/guide our decisions.

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Emergency Department ED Ambulance ALS 142

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

MARCH 1, 2021

Sometimes, a distant snippet of information will arouse suspicion. With experience, plenty of ambulance personnel develop a habit of drafting an extrication plan while walking into every situation, depending on the level of chaos that greets us. Gain information and vitals from a patient to determine whether or not we intervene.

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Ambulance Paramedic Naloxone First Responder 52

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

The bottom line from that episode pre-hospital antibiotics in the ambulance do not appear to have a mortality benefit in patients with varying degrees of sepsis in an optimized EMS system. For more information see PulmCrit recent post. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign makes a number of recommendations in their 2016 guideline.

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Paramedic ALS Ambulance EMS 130

High Performance EMS

JUNE 20, 2024

The experience gap forces younger staff to either ignore an issue or take personal actions with information that is often poorly calculated or presented. Yet it is the experienced staff that can even recognize the system failures, let alone solve the conflicts, that are no longer in the necessary tactical positions.

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JEMS

APRIL 3, 2025

A data breach of a county contractor's system may have exposed the private information of as many as 14,000 ambulance customers.

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EMS Ambulance 52

Don't Forget the Bubbles

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We might consider information about their medical history, particularly if they have an advanced care plan, DNACPR or ReSPECT form. We need to update them as and when we get further information from investigations and assessments, and we need to be honest. We will also consider the child’s family. Are they present?

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CPR OR Ambulance 131

High Performance EMS

MAY 11, 2023

Dale has done a masterful job of combining EMS history, SSM theory, practical information and explanations of real-world implementations using the MARVLIS system. Definitely worth a read! In these pages you will find valuable discussions to help improve patient care as well as the efficiency of your operations.

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Ambulance Paramedic EMS OR 130

ACEP Now

OCTOBER 9, 2023

However, patients are neither knowledgeable about our opaque trauma protocols nor informed about trauma activations. 1 The time pressure of trauma resuscitations and the variable severity of injury make obtaining informed consent before a trauma exam difficult. In these cases, provide treatment first, and obtain formal consent later.”

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Heart Attack Life Support Emergency Department Ambulance 126

FOAMfrat

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s a Fall night in the middle of nowhere, you’re staffing a Paramedic Ambulance in a combination system. Right as you’re making your bunk you get dispatched for a reported overdose with police enroute, no further information. You’re on a 24hr shift and getting ready for bed, already drowsy and ready for a nap.

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Overdose Ambulance First Responder ALS 98

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JANUARY 7, 2023

We know that it can take over ten years for high-quality, clinically relevant information to reach the patient. There is a tsunami of new information being published every day. There are five rules to journal club 1) You Must Talk/Tweet about SGEM-JC: The SGEM is a knowledge translation project. It can be overwhelming at times.

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OR Emergency Department ALS Ambulance 100

High Performance EMS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Added support for routing with live traffic in Canada using the TomTom ® Real Traffic Feed NETCall updates to support revenue information in processing and numerous user interface enhancements MARVLIS 4.5 Features and benefits of MARVLIS 4.5 MARVLIS Dashboard updated to support jQuery ® 3.6.0 Visit us at esri.com.

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Public Safety Emergency Transportation OR Ambulance 100

EMT Training Station

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

What information is NOT an important factor in the care of the patient? The police inform you they are unable to find the boy's parents. C) Informed consent. A) Return to your ambulance and call clear. D) Return to your ambulance, move to a safe location, and notify the police. He has been struck by a car.

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EMT EMT CPR Ambulance 98

Gold Cross Ambulance Service

OCTOBER 6, 2022

What qualities do we at Gold Cross Ambulance look for when we’re interviewing prospective candidates for a position on our team? Oftentimes team members will help in different ways at an emergency scene, but it’s imperative that they share information with one another to provide the best care for the patient.

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EMT EMT Emergency Response Ambulance 52

High Performance EMS

JULY 13, 2020

Yet it wasn’t until 1966 that the National Academy of Sciences ‘white paper,’ officially titled “ Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society ,” that ambulances began to transform from a side business at funeral homes into our modern Emergency Medical Systems of today.

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EMS Paramedicine Paramedicine Emergency Medical Services 100

The Overrun Podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Do you cringe each time you see a news story talk about “ambulance drivers”? The story on LA County cardiac arrest transport: [link] EMS Aegis is a great source for training and information for both individual clinicians and agencies looking to do better: Have you ever wondered why the news media gets EMS stories so messed up?

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Ambulance Driver EMS Ambulance 52

High Performance EMS

DECEMBER 27, 2023

A potential lack of credible information makes the choices of unit movement more difficult at the same time they are becoming even more critical to the agency. It is also common for ambulances to be busy longer than an hour in our post-pandemic world.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

National industry insight reporting from the Australian Industry and Skills Committee suggests that, in 2019 alone, Australia wide, there were over 4,500 enrolments in ambulance and paramedic qualifications1. National Industry Insights: Ambulance and Paramedic. AHPRA's 2019/20 annual report outlines a 14.5% 2019/20 Annual Summary.

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Paramedic Paramedicine Paramedicine Ambulance 52

Don't Forget the Bubbles

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A 12-year-old male is being transported by ambulance after a road traffic accident. Education and re-education should be offered where this information or knowledge is lacking, whether in the pre-hospital or hospital settings. You are the Paediatric doctor on call and receive a call for an incoming patient to the emergency department.

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