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EMS Insider Goes Digital - Print subscriptions now include access to an exclusive new website & e-alerts 4 Jul 2013 | 12:12 am
EMS Insider has launched an all-new website, combining news, exclusive articles, an archive of back issues and a handy repository for supporting documents, all into one location. As with the printed p...
EMS Insider Goes Digital - Print subscriptions now include access to an exclusive new website & e-alerts 3 Jul 2013 | 04:46 am
EMS Insider has launched an all-new website, combining news, exclusive articles, an archive of back issues and a handy repository for supporting documents, all into one location. As with the printed p...
EMS Infection Control Reference Available 11 Jun 2013 | 02:33 am
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) has developed a free, downloadable Guide to Infection Prevention in Emergency Medical Services. The APIC is the leading p...
Research Worth Reading - Recent studies you won’t want to miss 26 Apr 2013 | 06:21 am
EMS Analysis Wang HE, Mann, NC, Jacobson KE, et al. National characteristics of emergency medical services responses in the U.S. Prehos Emerg Care. 2013;17(1):8–14. Despite its prominence and history,...
Healthcare Reform & the Triple Aim - How EMS organizations can benefit How EMS organizations can benefit 26 Apr 2013 | 06:10 am
Healthcare as we know it is experiencing a transformation. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was a key trigger, but momentum in the industry was already causing changes. Although cable ne...
Redefining EMS - What’s in a name? 26 Apr 2013 | 06:00 am
“Emergency Medical Services.” Really? Spend a week or two in our worthy profession taking some 9-1-1 calls, or responding to patient’s medical needs, and you will quickly realize that few of the reque...
EMS People - Troy Hagen leaves Idaho for Southern California 26 Apr 2013 | 05:52 am
Troy Hagen, MBA, EMT-P, has been named the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Care Ambulance Service in Southern California. Formerly the Ada County (Idaho) paramedics director, Hagen assu...
Change Strengthens NEMSAC’s Role - Advisory council gains permanent status 26 Apr 2013 | 05:26 am
A change in the structure of the National Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council (NEMSAC) gives the federal government’s only EMS advisory council permanence and clout. NEMSAC was modified from a...
FDA Issues Class I Recall for Certain HeartSine Public Access Defibrillators 21 Apr 2013 | 03:09 am
On Nov. 19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Class I recall for certain HeartSine Samaritan 300/300P PAD devices. The devices have been found to intermittently turn on and off, whi...
Clinical Benchmarks That Matter 21 Apr 2013 | 03:06 am
Track national compliance with medical treatments In a previous column in the EMS Insider, I illustrated the need to deemphasize response times as the defacto quality measure of an EMS system based on...
