Just after midnight on September 26, 2023, Jesse Sopko, a paramedic with the South Central Ambulance District (SCAD) in Ashtabula County, Ohio, and a patient were in the back of SCAD’s Unit 639 when they were T-boned by a speeding
As EMS practitioners, we are committed to improving patient care and outcomes in the prehospital setting. We know that a highly trained EMS service means a safer community and more positive outcomes when duty calls today and tomorrow.
Emergency medical services has long been a cornerstone of emergency response, primarily focusing on rapid transportation and immediate medical care. Traditionally, EMS has operated under the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) jurisdiction, reflecting its origins in emergency transportation.
Joe Pawlows, Verizon Frontline Crisis Response Team senior manager for Arizona and Southern Nevada, likens a cellular telephone network to a tube to explain how traffic jams occur during high-usage situations.
“If you think of communication as a tube and all the cell services going through this tube, all of a sudden you get a hundred [responders] using this tube [and] that tube gets ...
The landscape of emergency medical services is undergoing a significant shift driven by technology, and the traditional ambulance model is also transforming to address challenges with rising demand resource limitations that threaten to impede re
The EMS Education Agenda for the Future—released in 2000—is a vision for the future of EMS education that builds on the broad concepts of the 1996 EMS Agenda for the Future.
The campaign is aimed at directly saving lives—through increasing public awareness and encouraging people and organizations to get trained with lifesaving techniques.
The campaign is aimed at directly saving lives—through increasing public awareness and encouraging people and organizations to get trained with lifesaving techniques.
With rates of sudden cardiac arrest mortality rising, the Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department is installing 30 outdoor cabinets for AEDs and bleeding control kits at 10 parks and city hall.
With rates of sudden cardiac arrest mortality rising, the Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department is installing 30 outdoor cabinets for AEDs and bleeding control kits at 10 parks and city hall.
Exposure risk to fentanyl continues to be a risk for first responders, so in a case where an EMS provider experiences massive dermal exposure to liquid fentanyl, what do we need to know about the risk?
Exposure risk to fentanyl continues to be a risk for first responders, so in a case where an EMS provider experiences massive dermal exposure to liquid fentanyl, what do we need to know about the risk?
The wildfires stole more than homes and possessions—families have lost history, heritage, and deep emotional connections with the land of their ancestors.
The wildfires stole more than homes and possessions—families have lost history, heritage, and deep emotional connections with the land of their ancestors.
The first 20 years of this century brought a gradual increase in awareness of and concern for the emotional weight borne by EMTs, paramedics and dispatchers.
The first 20 years of this century brought a gradual increase in awareness of and concern for the emotional weight borne by EMTs, paramedics and dispatchers.