Journal of Emergency Medical Services

COVID-19 Delta Variant and EMS: Latest Updates

9.10.2021

U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Are Topping 1,900 a Day

9.22.2021

Personal Protective Equipment for Emergency Medical Services; Research and System Needs

9.21.2021

Latest News

Three people – a patient and two EMS providers – were taken to the hospital after a car slammed into a Houston Fire Department ambulance.

Three Taken to Hospital after TX Ambulance Crash

9.22.2021 0

Three people – a patient and two EMS providers – were taken to the hospital after a car slammed into a Houston Fire Department ambulance.

New Castle County 3rd Paramedic Academy Class.

2020 EMS10 Winner Profile: New Castle County (DE) Paramedic Academy

9.22.2021

Firefighter Struck at FL Crash Scene; One Dead

9.22.2021

The photo shows Eric del Valle in uniform.

New FDNY EMTs Include a Probie Whose Stepfather Died from 9/11-Related Illness

9.22.2021

The photo shows the front of a white ambulance with the word "ambulance" reversed.

Effingham County (IL) to Review Ambulance Provider Bids

9.22.2021

The photo shows a the side of a white ambulance with the back door open.

KY College Offering Accelerated Paramedic Training

9.22.2021

Exclusives

Personal Protective Equipment for Emergency Medical Services; Research and System Needs

9.21.2021

Exceptionally high rates of occupational fatality and injury rates among paramedicine clinicians indicates EMS-specific risk reduction research is desperately needed.

Pediatric Upper Extremity Escalator Entrapment

9.21.2021

The authors present a case involving a recent entrapment of an 18-month-old child in an escalator.

EMS Providers as Science Communicators in COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts

9.16.2021

The delivery of community healthcare can be significantly improved with the integration of public health practice in emergency medical services, writes Sarah Torzone.

EMScapades: September 15, 2021

9.15.2021

You'll only turn your back on an altered mental status patient once in your career.

EMS Airway

Webcasts

COVID-19 Delta Variant and EMS: Latest Updates

9.10.2021

How to Simplify Controlled Substances Management and Ensure Compliance

9.2.2021

Disparities in EMS Care: Best Practices in Assessment, Current Findings and Suggestions for Improvement

9.1.2021

Systems of Care that Scale: How EMS Leaders Are Building the Future

6.25.2021

Who Says EMS Recertification Needs to Be So Difficult? The Benefits of Online Learning for EMS Agencies

6.14.2021

Duty to Act: Maintaining Compassion and Safety for Difficult Patients

5.6.2021

Patient Care

Figure 1: Intraoperative view showing the attached comb plate of the escalator with its hook-like design preventing extrication of the patient from the escalator.

Pediatric Upper Extremity Escalator Entrapment

9.21.2021

Study: Childhood Obesity in U.S. Accelerated during Pandemic

9.17.2021

The EMS Handoff: Delayed Sequence Intubation with Jason Haag

9.16.2021

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019 file photo, a police officer holds a box of Narcan, a drug used to treat opioid overdoses, that the department officers carry in their patrol vehicles in Jackson Township, Butler County, Pa.

Cumberland County (NC) Offering Free Narcan

9.8.2021

The photo shows the back of an ambulance.

EMS Now and Tomorrow

9.7.2021

ECG Consult: 59yo Construction Worker Complains of Mild Chest Pain

9.7.2021

NJ EMS Task Force members help residents feel the facility

NJ EMS Task Force Evacuates Flooded Somerset Facility; 93 Saved

9.3.2021

Port Orange (FL) Fire Chief Says Ambulance Times Are ‘Satisfactory,’ for Now

9.3.2021

Podcasts

Project Mayday: Chief Mark Romer

9.21.2021

The EMS Handoff: Delayed Sequence Intubation with Jason Haag

9.16.2021

The Ambulance Science Podcast: The People vs. EMS

9.14.2021

The EMS Handoff: Disaster Preparedness with NAEMT

9.8.2021

Differentiating Facial Weakness Caused by Bell’s Palsy vs. Acute Stroke

5.7.2014

How to Read and Interpret End-Tidal Capnography Waveforms

8.1.2017

Five Common Causes of Sudden Unexpected Death Every EMS Provider Should Know

1.20.2015

Taking a Manual Blood Pressure: Techniques & Pitfalls

10.24.2018

What’s the Difference Between Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetes Insipidus?

2.20.2020

The Dos and Don’ts of Bag-Valve Mask Ventilation

8.8.2014

The photo shows the front of an ambulance.

KS Board Asks for Investigation of EMS Leader after Man Left to Die

3.30.2021

ECG Consult: 59-Year-Old Construction Worker Complains of Mild Chest Pain