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Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month

High Performance EMS

Read on to find out how you can be a part of building informed communities and activating citizen responses. Consider the alternative when the telecommunicator informs the caller, “ There is an AED at the front desk, and one on the pool deck; is someone there with you that can go retrieve one? View live stats for the registry here.

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Wave 2024 Recap: Top 6 Key Topics in EMS & Fire Industries

ESO

Data is being put front-and-center in the fire services industry with the implementation of the new National Emergency Response Information System (NERIS) by the U.S. Recent EMS staffing and resource shortages have necessitated rapid dispatch prioritization beyond the Emergency Medical Dispatch’s (EMD) intended scope.

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Extreme shock and cardiac arrest in COVID patient

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

When the ECG is nondiagnostic for coronary occlusion, or the patient is suspected of having a non-occlusion MI, consider echocardiography to inform the decision for angiography. In normal times, the most common use of cTni is in diagnosing, or ruling out, acute myocardial infarction (AMI, a subcategory of acute myocardial injury.

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