Ems Medical Direction

How the University of New Mexico’s EMS Medical Direction Consortium Encourages Collaboration

Collective expertise of physicians is available to participating agencies.

Posted Tuesday, June 4, 2013

EMS Medical Leaders Present 55 Rapid-Fire Lectures

EMS medical directors from 60 of the largest population centers in the U.S. and London featured timely topics that EMS agencies and provider now, or in the immediate future will face.

Posted Monday, February 25, 2013

Drowning in Information … Starved for Knowledge

ZOLL introduces a revolutionary reporting system & pledges to safely share patient data across devices in an effort to give physicians critical real-time information.

Posted Friday, February 22, 2013

Communication Is Key for EMS Response to Active Shooter Incidents

Does EMS go in during an active shooter event? If so, under what conditions? Top EMS docs discuss these questions at the Eagles conference.

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2013

EMS Drug Shortages Discussion Gets Intense at 'Eagle Creek' in Dallas

EMS Medical Directors discuss the impact of drug shortages and tightening drug inventory control.

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2013

Is Coding of Penetrating & Blunt Trauma Arrest Patients Warranted?

Corey Slovis, MD, FACP, FACEP, FAAEM, tells colleagues he feels a position paper is warranted to reduce or stop the unnecessary resuscitation of selected, severely traumatized patients.

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Alcohol Cases Significantly Tax EMS Systems

Denver EMS units answer 85,000 calls annually, with many of their responses involve patients with alcohol use and abuse.

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Expert Advises Medical Directors to Prepare for Nuclear Incidents

John White, CNMT, Chair of the North Texas Radiation Response Group, updated the Eagles Coalition on what would/could happen if a nuclear device was detonated in a large metropolitan center.

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2013

News and Updates from the 2013 Eagle Creek Retreat in Dallas, Texas

JEMS Editor-in-Chief A.J. Heightman reports from the annual EMS State of the Sciences Conference in Dallas, Texas.

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2013

NAEMT Publishes Position Statement on Medical Direction in EMS

The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) states that medical direction is an essential component of an effective EMS system in order to ensure that patient care is administered with appropriate clinical oversight using medically accepted standards.

Posted Wednesday, April 14, 2010