Journal of Emergency Medical Services

How to Simplify Controlled Substances Management and Ensure Compliance

9.2.2021

Serving Leader

6.15.2021

MN Mobile ECMO Program: A Paradigm Shift for Cardiac Arrest?

6.17.2021

Latest News

Los Angeles County Fire Department insignia

2020 EMS10 Winner Profile: Los Angeles County (CA) Fire Department

9.26.2021 0

The Los Angeles County (CA) Fire Department (LACoFD) has implemented ImageTrend Elite in just 60 days.

Medical personnel adjust their personal protective equipment while working in the emergency department at NYC Health + Hospitals Metropolitan in New York.

NY Hospitals Fear Staff Shortage as Vaccine Deadline Looms

9.25.2021

Cleveland (OH) Police Shoot Man Who Hit Ambulance with Hatchet

9.24.2021

A pharmacist prepares a syringe of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19, at Queen Anne Healthcare, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Seattle.

CDC Leader Adds Healthcare Workers to COVID Booster List

9.24.2021

Paramedics standby at a mass shelter where about 800 residents were reportedly packed into a warehouse for Hurricane Ida, Thursday, Sept 2, 2021, in New Orleans.

15 Deaths Among LA Nursing Home Patients Moved to Warehouse

9.24.2021

TN Grocery Store Attack: ‘He Kept on Shooting’

9.24.2021

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

Natick EMS team Michael Salvucci, Eric Williamson, Jovany Salazar, Ryan Mooney and Michael Quilty were honored for making a life-saving call to the hospital when a patient was experiencing severe chest pain.

Natick (MA) EMTs Honored for Response to Severe Heart Attack

9.23.2021

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

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