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

ESO

In Evaluating Firefighter Decontamination Practices Using a National Fire Records Management System by Antonio Fernandez, Principal Research Scientist at ESO and Bill Gardner CFE, CFO, EMT-P, Sr. In addition to protecting our first responders, data is helping us provide better care for our community.

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How to Become an EMT in New Jersey

Paramedic Training Spot

Learning how to become an EMT in New Jersey, or an Emergency Medical Technician to be specific, is not an overnight accomplishment. Not only are you training to be a Garden State EMT, you are studying to become Nationally Registered, which is a relatively new requirement for the state.

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PSA: Incidental Skin and Inhalation Exposure to Fentanyl is NOT a thing!

EM Basic

Today’s episode of the podcast is a myth busting on all the media reports about first responders overdosing by being exposed to fentanyl in the field by incidental contact. Please spread this far and wide and share it with anyone who is concerned about incidental exposure to fentanyl being a concern for first responders.

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The Harms of Stigma

Peter Canning

They treated me like s**t the time I overdosed. One day I was dispatched to an overdose. An EMT was already wheeling the stretcher down a short alley where his partner knelt by the dumpster. Thought I’d check behind the dumpster,” the EMT said to me. The young EMT did and it helped us find this lost soul.