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USFA Safety Alert: Powerheart and CardioVive Automated External Defibrillators

U.S. Fire Administration As reported by theU.S. Food and Drug Administration The Food and Drug Administration has issued the following m...

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JEMS Web Team

'The Project' and EMS Exchanges

From the Eyes of a Brit EMS bloggers comment on their first week of 'The Project' Perhaps the greatest means of education and understan...

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Chris Carlson, PhD

Study: Uninsured Trauma Patients More Likely to Die than the Insured

Haven't read it - don't know the science, the limitations, or the level of significance - but AP is running with this. FYI "Uninsured pa...

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Joe P.

Ambulance accreditation and medicare: a solution for poor quality?

Here's a thought of mine that comes up every once in a while. What if ambulance accreditation was closer to hospital accreditation? For h...

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5 44 minutes ago
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JEMS Web Team

IAFF, IAFC Fire-based EMS

Editors Note: It is not the intent of this post, nor other JEMS webteam posts, to fuel passionate arguments or beat the 'virtual' dead ho...

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119 1 hour ago
Reply by Skip Kirkwood
Scott RB

Another FD attempting to scab medics out of jobs.

Again, city council didn't propose this and citizens didn't call for it. Another FD sticking its nose where it shouldn't. ----- Ohio Fi...

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16 4 hours ago
Reply by Ben Waller
blair4630

MCL1?

So I was talking to a coworker last night, and he was telling me about a class he took a little while back where they were advocating the...

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5 6 hours ago
Reply by Mike Rubin
Gul Dukat

R.O.S.C. Trauma

Ok, admit it someone on here did a letter writing campaign. :) http://www.spoilertv.com/2009/11/trauma-uncancelled.html

Started by Gul Dukat

2 9 hours ago
Reply by Nathan
JEMS Web Team

USFA Safety Alert: Powerheart and CardioVive Automated External Defibrillators

U.S. Fire Administration As reported by theU.S. Food and Drug Administration The Food and Drug Administration has issued the following m...

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0 11 hours ago
logan smith

exchange

I'm currently working for the Queensland ambulance service, based in Brisbane as an advance care paramedic. the QAS covers an area 60 tim...

Started by logan smith

1 14 hours ago
Reply by TheCannulator
Robert Sullivan

Pericardiocentesis for PEA?

AHA lists cardiac tamponade as a reversable cause of PEA. Its done in the hospital before they pronounce PEA patients, and usually by the...

Started by Robert Sullivan

12 22 hours ago
Reply by Brian Dunnigan
JEMS Web Team

Safety and Religion

Orthodox Jewish Medics Say Beard Ban Discriminates It has been a continuous debate; when do rules regarding safety compromise personal r...

Started by JEMS Web Team

30 1 day ago
Reply by Mark Case
JEMS Web Team

'The Project' and EMS Exchanges

From the Eyes of a Brit EMS bloggers comment on their first week of 'The Project' Perhaps the greatest means of education and understan...

Started by JEMS Web Team

6 1 day ago
Reply by Johnson Smithwood
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Kind of like how Los Angeles County EMSA just introduced a brand new transport protocol that included triaging stroke patients to hospitals with neurological capabilities instead of just the nearest ER?
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All true. But the question remains - what do you "get" for your accreditation, besides a nice decal for your truck and a pat on the back? In most states, there has to be a two-track process for hospitals. You can be JCAHO-accredited, or you can g...
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Ben, I think that you have some mystical view of the activities of police officers that doesn't connect with reality. The "power of arrest" is not different from the "power to administer medicine" or any other power conferred by law or similar aut...
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