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From Blood, Sweat and Tears to Coronary Artery Disease: A Paramedic’s Journey Through the EMS Trenches

JEMS

Mike Doss provides a firsthand account of the long-term health impacts of a career in EMS.

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Disappearing Leadership

EMS 20/20

A discharge home for a patient is difficult for all the wrong reasons. Chris. defends the bad guy? Nuance is key as Chris and Spence discuss the wrong time and place in this week's episode. A discharge home for a patient is difficult for all the wrong reasons. Chris. defends the bad guy? Nuance is key as Chris and Spence discuss the wrong time and place in this week's episode.

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The Art of the Assessment

JEMS

Patient assessment is a lost art. It doesn't have to be.

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Anterior OMI with RBBB has VF x 3: how to prevent further episodes of VF?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A middle-age woman with no previous cardiac history called 911 for chest pain. This was her prehospital ECG: What do you think? There is sinus rhythm with RBBB and obvious LAD OMI (proximal LAD occlusion): hyperacute T-waves in I, aVL and minimal STE in V1, V2. This is diagnostic of Acute LAD OMI In case you are wondering what the Queen thought, here she is: Notice that she also diagnoses Low Ejection Fraction.

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First Due Launches Learning Management System for Fire & EMS Training and Compliance

JEMS

First Due, the leading provider of cloud-based Fire & EMS software, has announced the launch ofFirst Due LMS.

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What do you do with the Cat?

Peter Canning

You are dispatched for an overdose. You find a 48-year-old homeless man sitting on a park bench, eyes closed, nodding forward. You give him a little shake and he opens his eyes and looks up at you. You ask him if he is okay and he says he is all right. He says he took a pill a friend gave him earlier and it made him drowsy. Next to him you see a cat, eating from a small tin of cat food.

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JEMS Innovation Summit Showcases Emerging EMS Trends

JEMS

Whats next in EMS was on display at the JEMS Innovation Summit at FDIC International.

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Gathering of Eagles Takes Flight at JEMS @ FDIC

JEMS

The Gathering of Eagles has landed at JEMS @ FDIC.

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Opinion: When Health Care Regulatory Agencies Practice Medicine

ACEP Now

When I was an inpatient pharmacy manager in 2013, my hospital was visited by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), concerned about droperidol and ECG monitoring, or rather, lack thereof. Fast forward to now, and it seems droperidol is still a favorite punching bag for CDPH. Despite all the buzzwords (Evidence-based medicine! Guideline directed!

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Delaware County PA Hospital Group Warns Closure Coming Without Bailout

JEMS

Crozer Healthcould begin closure as soon as Thursday morning if it does not get another $9 million by4 p.m. Wednesday, an attorney for parent companyProspect Medical Holdingssaid.

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Three Killed, Three Wounded in VA Mass Shooting

JEMS

Three people were killed and three others were wounded in a shooting in northeastern Virginia on Tuesday.

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ND House Passes Stripped-Down Bill to Assist Failing Ambulance Services

JEMS

The North Dakota House of Representativespassed a bill on Tuesday to support distressed ambulance services.

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Ambulance Crew, Patient Hospitalized After Crash on VA Eastern Shore

JEMS

Four people were hospitalized after a crash involving an ambulance and a tractor trailer on Route 13 in Accomack County late Monday afternoon.

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Rural MN EMS Agencies Plead for More Financial Assistance

JEMS

Rural EMS agencies are asking legislators to add $50 million to the state’s budget to keep them functioning.

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The US Has Three Measles-Related Deaths and Hundreds of Cases. Here’s What to Know

JEMS

Texas surpassed 500 measles cases Tuesday, just days after a third persondied from a measles-related illness.

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