Should EMS Reduce the Use of Lights & Sirens? Part II By Brian Maloney * When people ask me why I got into emergency medical services I tell them the story of taking a CPR class while in college. I completely fell in love with the idea of being able to help people in […]
Should EMS Reduce the Use of Lights & Sirens? Part I By Brian Maloney * When people ask me why I got into emergency medical services I tell them the story of taking a CPR class while in college. I completely fell in love with the idea of being able to help people in their […]
New Year’s Resolution: It’s time we all kept one for our Industry By Gary Harvat, CMTE, EMT-P (RET) * Well, here we are, a new year underway and with any new year, there comes the plethora of New Year’s resolutions. I always find this somewhat amusing as Americans mentally commit to doing better with varied […]
Ground Ambulance Cost Data Collection- How’s it going? By Chuck Humphrey, B.A., EMT-B, CAC, CACO, CADS, * Was Your Agency Selected? Was your EMS agency selected in Year One or Year Two to be mandated to collect and report cost data? If your answer is YES, then you should be well into the thick […]
Dance with Who Brought Ya’ By Gary Harvat CMTE, EMT-P (ret)* Over the course of one’s professional career, there are individuals that move in and out of our life. Some for the positive and some, not so much. From those that influence us in a positive light, we learn, we develop, we become better professionals, […]
Wonder Why My Back Hurts? By Gary Harvat CMTE, EMT-P (ret)* I guess things happen unbeknownst to me anymore. The other day, I arose at my normal time of 5:12 AM (don’t ask me why it’s 5:12 but it’s been that way for years). As I placed my feet on the floor, I could detect […]
Just Culture in the world of EMS and how it can change the way you react to an incident. By: Matt Reinhart EMT-P, FP-C Cortex Navigator Ninth Brain Suite The pager of an administrator of a fairly large EMS agency goes off early in the morning alerting him/her that an incident has happened with a […]
The Community Paramedicine Model By Adam Patterson, CAD* with Victoria Reinhartz, PharmD, CPh** A fresh look at Mobile Integrated Health: As the entire EMS community focuses on recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, there are a couple of silver linings coming out of 2021. One could argue that the attention put on EMS services’ ability to […]
Succession Planning: Why Bother? By Ed Marasco, MPM, CMTE, EMT-P (Ret.)* Long In The Tooth And Short On Plans EMS is a relatively young profession and some of the challenges faced by our community today are “old world problems” for many of our peers around the healthcare and public safety sectors. As the early leaders […]
The Tale of Two Studies…and…COVID-19 Gesundheit! At this very moment, 365 days ago, if you would have looked at me and said “COVID-19”, I’d have said “gesundheit!” and handed you a tissue to wipe your nose. No pun intended (well maybe a little pun), but who in the world would have dared to guess that […]
