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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. The post 2024 Ancient Order of St.

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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. The post 2024 Honorable Order of St.

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

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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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Hitting The Undo Button In The Ambulance

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

An accidental opioid overdose and its nemesis, naloxone. Find It In Advance By paying heed to gut instinct and weighing up the pros and cons, we begin to build a clearer picture in the mind around methods to help us manage, or undo, the unwanted effects of interventions. Some start to sink in right from the early days of education.

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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? He is also the host of EMToxCast and gave a talk at the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine Annual Retreat […] The post SGEM#179: Chase the Dragon and Naloxone first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. Clinical Toxicology 2017.

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"Call HazMat Before Opening"

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Unlike other methods, such as firearms, hangings, intentional overdoses, and cutting, chemical suicides tend to linger in the area where the act was committed. Of these, eight first responders and four employees of the coroners office were involved. References Ambrose, P. 2017, 12 08). 2016, 10 07). 2015, 11 23).

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

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

The EMS crew observes drug paraphernalia and suspect an intravenous (IV) opioid overdose. Background: There have been close to 400,000 deaths from an overdose involving any opioid (prescription and illicit opioids) between 1999 and 2017. [1] Wave 2: Rapid increase in overdose deaths involving heroin starting in 2010.

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