Administration And Leadership

EMS Crews Should be Allowed to Use ‘Special Stretchers’

How the elimination of a few words impacted patient immobilization.

Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Resuscitation Success Improved with Cooling

Joseph Ornato’s cooling program allows for the discharge of more than 14% of patients neurologically intact from the hospital alive.

Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Program Brings Diversity to EMS

David Page spearheaded the formation of the Saint Paul Emergency Medical Services academy with the goal of diversifying St. Paul’s EMS workforce.

Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Saving Lives with an App

Richard Price launched the PulsePoint smartphone mobile app to improve cardiac arrest survival rates.

Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Pro Bono: Keep Your Certification Current

The consequences of not maintaining certification can be significant.

Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Envisioning Community Paramedicine

EMS leaders met at the Medtronic headquarters to discuss the focus, components and standard elements of community paramedicine progams.

Posted Thursday, March 21, 2013

Developing an EMS Field Training & Evaluation Program

A two-day workshop at EMS Today educated EMS supervisors, educators, managers and executives about how to develop a sound, legally-defensible field training and evaluation program and smoothly and effectively integrate new employees into their agencies.

Posted Thursday, March 7, 2013

EMS Leaders Brave the D.C. Weather to Meet with Legislators

EMS leaders met with legislators to build support for the EMS Field Bill and the Veteran Emergency Medical Technician Support Act, as well as to encourage legislators to join the EMS Caucus.

Posted Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Clinical Benchmarks That Matter

In the face of growing evidence that response times don't matter as much as we once thought, what clinical metrics should we be using to evaluate the quality of an EMS system?

Posted Saturday, February 23, 2013

Mark Bruning Steps Down as AMR President

American Medical Response Inc. (AMR) announced the departure of president Mark Bruning, effective Jan. 14. William A. Sanger, chief executive officer (CEO) of AMR’s parent company, Emergency Medical Services Corporation, has stepped in as interim president.

Posted Saturday, February 23, 2013