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PCC Summit June 10th-12th, 2025

Paramedic Chiefs of Canada

PCC Members, Our annual leadership Summit is less than two months away! In addition to the Summit sessions, you will have the opportunity to meet with sector partners, network with colleagues, and engage in conversations with Paramedic leaders from around the globe. A reminder to register for our upcoming Summit and reserve your guest room at our reduced rate by May 9th, 2025.

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1:1 Nursing Podcast – Episode 0 – The Introduction

EMCrit Project

Intro to the 1:1 Nursing Podcast EMCrit Project by Scott Weingart, MD FCCM.

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MN EMS Agencies Warn of System Collapse, Lobby for Funding Fix

JEMS

Minnesotas EMS providers delivered a warning to state lawmakers: chronic underfunding and staffing shortages are pushing ambulance services to the brink of collapse.

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Demers Ambulances: 65 Years of Continuous Growth and Global Leadership

Paramedic Chiefs of Canada

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Demers Ambulances 65 Years of Continuous Growth and Global Leadership FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Crestline Coach Celebrates 50 Years of Manufacturing Excellence and Growth

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Trees in the Forest

JEMS

There are times when you can miss the forest for the trees, including during patient care.

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Size Matters: The Impact of Cuff Size on Blood Pressure

REBEL EM

Background: Accurate blood pressure (BP) measurement is essential in the emergency department (ED), where it serves as a key marker of hemodynamic stability and informs critical management decisions. Improper technique and incorrect cuff sizing can lead to falsely high or low readings, impacting patient care. The issue of BP cuff size has been studied in manual BP cuffs previously, but there is scant literature on automatic BP cuffs.

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Measles Exploded in TX After Stagnant Vaccine Funding. New Cuts Threaten the Same Across the US

JEMS

Measles ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because vaccine programs were starved of the funding, officials say.

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New Billing Policies Will Generate $1.1 Million for Kingston (NY) Ambulance Service

JEMS

Brian Hubert – Daily Freeman, Kingston, N.Y.KINGSTON, N.Y.

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 118: Lisfranc Injury

EMDocs

Today on the emDOCs cast with Brit Long ( @long_brit) , we cover the Lisfranc injury. Episode 118: Lisfranc Injury What is it? The Lisfranc joint complex is a tarso-metatarsal articulation named for Jacques Lisfranc (1790-1847), one of Napoleons battlefield surgeons. A Lisfranc injury is any injury/disruption to this joint complex. Exist along a spectrum: minor subluxation to fracture and dislocation.

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MI Ambulance Providers Seek $6 Million in Unpaid Services for Prisoner Transports

JEMS

Emergency medical service (EMS) agencies across Michigan are urging lawmakers to intervene after not being paid for transporting prisoners in 2023 and 2024.

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Providing feedback and defining excellence in medicine

First 10 EM

There appears to be wide agreement that we are not good at providing feedback in medicine. I have attended many seminars and read many papers on this topic, and despite believing this is an essential role in medical education, I still fail routinely. I have received a lot of advice. I should start by setting […] The post Providing feedback and defining excellence in medicine appeared first on First10EM.

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Driver, 19 Killed, Passenger Critically Injured in Temecula (CA) Crash

JEMS

A 19-year-old driver died and two teenage passengers were injured, one badly, in a single-vehicle crash inTemecula.

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ACEP4U: UAB Achieves First-Ever Emergency Department Accreditation from ACEP 

ACEP Now

When somebody is sick or injured in and around Birmingham, Alabama, several options exist for care. But only one has received ACEPs Emergency Department Accreditation Program (EDAP) stamp of approval. The University of Alabama at Birmingham is the first EDand only for nowto attain this accreditation. UAB was notified in late February of this achievement after several months of navigating the process and supplying information to back up the vision and prove it meets the requirements.

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Endovascular Treatment of Stroke Due to Medium-Vessel Occlusion

EMOttawa

Methodology: 5/5 Usefulness: 4/5 Goyal M, et al. N Engl J Med. 2025 Feb 5. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2411668. Question and Methods:This multi-center, open label RCT of 530 patients presenting with medium-sized vessel stroke within 12h of last seen well compared functional outcomes at 90-days between EVT with standard medical care and standard medical care alone.

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Optimizing Pediatric Trauma Care: Evidence-Based Guidance for Emergency Physicians

ACEP Now

No scenario demands more rapid, high-stakes decision-making than pediatric traumathe leading cause of death for childrenwhere timely interventions significantly influence outcomes. 1,2 Despite trauma care advancements, disparities in practice, resources, and training persist, impacting survival and recovery. 3-6 While pediatric trauma centers (PTCs) provide specialized care, 43 percent of children live more than 30 miles from one, and over 80 percent receive initial treatment in non-pediatric fa

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Paediatric Keloid Disorder

Don't Forget the Bubbles

A guide for the first contact clinician Jamie is 15 and presents to the ED 3 weeks after an operation following a left-sided shoulder dislocation. They are worried about a thickened scar at one of the port sites from the operation What is keloid? Keloid disorder refers to a group of conditions that lead to excessive scar formation, resulting in keloids and hypertrophic scars.

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Liberate Methadone: An Introduction for the Emergency Medicine Physician

ACEP Now

We are in the midst of the worst overdose crisis in American history, with greater than 100,000 deaths in the last year on record. 1 Overdose is the leading cause of death among Americans 40-years-old and younger, accounting for more deaths than homicide, suicide, motor vehicle accidents, gun violence, and cancer. 2 Within emergency medicine, we bear witness to this crisis first-hand, as we care for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) during emergencies, post-overdose, for chronic concerns d

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Halls of Power

Peter Canning

This week I attended a meeting in the Governors office in the state capitol to advocate for a bill creating the states first overdose prevention center. I was one of a group of eight meeting with the Governors chief of staff. Our group included two mothers who had lost their sons to overdose and were now fierce advocates, a young man who had survived an overdose and now worked in harm reduction, a prominent Yale epidemiologist who was one of the founders of syringe exchange in Connecticut many y