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2024 Ancient Order of St. Florian and St. Michael Inductees: Robert and Kirstiana Dittman

First Responders Foundation

Chief Dittman has also expanded his public safety role as a first responder by achieving certification as a Wild-Land Firefighter and Certified Emergency Care Attendant. He is nationally registered as an Emergency Medical Responder with the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians.

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2024 Honorable Order of St. Florian and St. Michael Inductees: Robert and Kirstiana Dittman

First Responders Foundation

Chief Dittman has also expanded his public safety role as a first responder by achieving certification as a Wild-Land Firefighter and Certified Emergency Care Attendant. He is nationally registered as an Emergency Medical Responder with the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians.

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

ESO

In addition to protecting our first responders, data is helping us provide better care for our community. Director of Fire at ESO, we learned how aggregated data is currently facilitating the important discussion around decontamination in firefighting to protect firefighters from their biggest threat – cancer.

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SGEM#179: Chase the Dragon and Naloxone

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Do heroin overdose patients require observation after receiving naloxone? Guest Skeptic: Dr. Richard Hamilton (@RJHamiltonMD) is Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. Do heroin overdose patients require observation after receiving naloxone? Clinical Toxicology 2017.

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SGEM#241: Wake Me Up Before You Go, Go – Using the HOUR Rule

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Justin Morgenstern is an emergency physician and the creator of the excellent #FOAMed project called First10EM.com Case: A 33-year-old man arrives via emergency medical services (EMS) after initially being found unresponsive with an oxygen saturation of 89%, respiratory rate of six, a systolic blood pressure of 75 mmHg, and pinpoint pupils.

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How to Become an EMT in New Jersey

Paramedic Training Spot

Brief History of EMS in New Jersey New Jersey has seen Emergency Medical Services since the 1920’s, and was one of the first states to have this volunteer service. In fact, in 1927, the town of Belmar was one of the the first established volunteer ambulance services in the nation.

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OPVEE and Opioid Epidemic Opportunists

Peter Canning

In an article by New England Public Media, Health experts alarmed at new overdose drug marketed to WMass police departments , a police chief in Dalton Mass stunningly poo-poos the experts warnings about the drug, actually saying, The DPH and these people, they’re not in the field, she said. They felt faint, some even passed out.