American Ambulance Association

JULY 5, 2024

Government Affairs Update View this email in your browser 2024 Ambulance Ride-Along Toolkit Educating your members of Congress about ambulance industry issues makes them much more likely to support your efforts. […] The post 2024 Ambulance Ride-Along Toolkit appeared first on American Ambulance Association.

Ambulance 130

Ambulance 130

Unitek EMT

JULY 5, 2024

Exploring the critical role of EMTs in the opioid crisis The opioid crisis continues to escalate, devastating communities across the nation and straining public health resources. According to the FCC’s Connect2Health publication, Synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, have worsened the situation, accounting for over 82 percent of all opioid-related fatalities in 2020.

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EMT EMT Overdose EMS 69

American Ambulance Association

JULY 5, 2024

The post Speak at Annual 2025 in Lexington! appeared first on American Ambulance Association.

Ambulance 130

Ambulance 130

The EMS Educator

JULY 5, 2024

Creating and managing realistic patient simulations is not an easy task. EMS educators have a lot on their plate -- from designing the scenario to training facilitators to choosing the equipment to avoiding training scars. What are best practices? We asked simulation gurus Brittany Prater, Director of Alabama EMS Region One and Robby May, ALS Education Specialist at Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue.

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Organ Donor EMS ALS 52

Pediatric EM Morsels

JULY 5, 2024

It seems like just yesterday ( or maybe ~ a month ago ) when we served up a tasty morsel on the PECARN decision rule for intra-abdominal traumatic injuries in children. Our friends at the PECARN injury group have remained busy this spring with generating more externally validated clinical decision rules. In addition to the recently published low risk intra-abdominal injury validation, we have another new tool to use this summer as school breaks, underdeveloped frontal lobes, and high speeds leav

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ALS OR ED Emergency Department 161

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 5, 2024

An older patient with no previous medical history arrived at triage complaining of SOB. Her heart rate was very fast, so we obtained an ECG immediately: ECG: What do you think? There is a regular wide complex tachycardia. The QRS morphology is RBBB with LAFB (tiny r-waves in inferior leads followed by deep S-waves; tiny q-wave in aVL followed by large R-wave; Left axis deviation).

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Critical Care OR ALS 95