Optimizing EMS and Reducing Ambulance Patient Offload Time: Part 1
This is how EMS can be optimized through medical operations coordination centers, healthcare coalitions and PerformanceStat.
The Hidden Dangers of Honey Packets: A Guide for Prehospital Clinicians
A growing trend among college students involves the misuse of “honey packets” marketed as sexual enhancers, creating significant health risks.
HIPAA and EMS: Navigating Information Sharing and Quality Improvement
For EMS providers, HIPAA requires that any medical information about their patients be protected.
Editor’s Opinion: EMS’s Impact on Heart Health in the U.S.
No one can deny the role that prehospital providers play in the early care of those suffering a cardiac event.
Grief On the Front Line: Managing Our Hidden Wounds
Understanding duty-bound grief is much like understanding first responders themselves—it’s complicated.
The Data Behind the Research
Chief Douglas Randell speaks with Dr. Remle Crowe and Dr. Jamie Kennel about following the data in EMS research.
Flu Season Is the Most Intense It’s Been in at Least 15 Years
The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years.
MT EMS Get Training in Sepsis
Sepsis is a significant killer annually in the U.S., but work is being done to help area emergency medical services and nurses decrease deaths.
Racial Gap Widened in Deaths Among US Moms Around the Time of Childbirth
Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth in 2023.
The Evolution of EMS Medical Direction with Dr. Paul Pepe
Dr. Paul Pepe looks back at the early days of EMS and how medical direction began.
- Sheets vs. the Streets
- Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Mechanical Ventilator Strategies
- Friday Night Lights: Shift 12 – Less Isn’t Always More
- Who’s Watching the ‘Bs’ in the ABCs?
- Challenging the Way We Have Always Done It: The PUMA Criteria of Endotracheal Tube Confirmation
64-Year-Old Woman Killed After Semi-Truck Collides with Ambulance in FL
A 64-year-old woman died Friday night after a semi-truck crashed into the ambulance transporting her to the hospital.
As Conspiracy Theories Abound, Philadelphia Air Ambulance Crash Has Experts Baffled
What went wrong the night of Jan. 31 to turn the heavily used jet into a deadly rocket less than a minute after takeoff is…