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USFA Safety Alert: Powerheart and CardioVive Automated External Defibrillators

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'The Project' and EMS Exchanges
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NEMSMS: Line of Duty Deaths, California

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dr-exmedic replied to JEMS Web Team's discussion 'Safety and Religion'
Do they drive? Run pumps and other equipment? I'm terribly curious....
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Ben Waller replied to JEMS Web Team's discussion 'IAFF, IAFC Fire-based EMS'
Skip, Sorry, the defibrillator and syringe of Sux are not in the same league with a firearm. What kind of backstop do you need to ensure that a gunshot defibrillation aimed at a running criminal patient doesn't kill someone other than the crimina...
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dr-exmedic replied to JEMS Web Team's discussion 'IAFF, IAFC Fire-based EMS'
Sorry, you were focusing on the difference between police and fire and EMS, not the similar thing between them, and I got a little confused because there are probably 500 differences we could count but all the ones you picked also do apply to the ...
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dr-exmedic replied to JEMS Web Team's discussion 'IAFF, IAFC Fire-based EMS'
So? Neither I nor anyone I know have ever been dispatched to any of those things at a 3rd service without simultaneous fire or rescue dispatch, with the exception of forced entry into homes, which was done by our cops. This saved a significant amo...
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dr-exmedic replied to JEMS Web Team's discussion 'IAFF, IAFC Fire-based EMS'
Just out of curiosity--is that because they have acknowledged that code enforcement is a really complicated thing, best handled by those who do it almost exclusively?
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Skip Kirkwood replied to JEMS Web Team's discussion 'IAFF, IAFC Fire-based EMS'
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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Ben Waller replied to JEMS Web Team's discussion 'IAFF, IAFC Fire-based EMS'
There is a big difference between law enforcement crime prevention and code enforcement. Code enforcement is generally done by a few specialist fire inspectors, not the line firefighters. I've worked and visited all over the country, and virtually...
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Skip Kirkwood replied to JEMS Web Team's discussion 'IAFF, IAFC Fire-based EMS'
Your later point lost me, KC. I WAS a corpsman assigned to the Marines. I was a corpsman, period. Did I have the training and know-how to take care of myself in the Marine environment? Yep. Could I protect my patient? Yep! Did they count me when t...
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EMS Rejects New Trauma Show

Since Monday's premiere of NBC's Trauma, the EMS community has been restless with heated remarks and calls for cancellation.

A day before the premiere, JEMS Editor-in-Chief A.J. Heightman, MPA, EMT-P, posted a review of the series, predicting it was "ripe for 'Do Not Resuscitate' orders."

As a nationally recognized MCI expert, Heightman objected in particular to the multi-veh… Continue

Posted on September 30, 2009 at 3:30pm — 15 Comments

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At 5:31pm on August 26, 2009, Lisa L. White said…
I think these should be shown, it was realistic and so true. I hope they show these videos to everyone, not only just teenagers. Great Job!!!
At 10:40pm on February 11, 2009, Tim Watkins said…
Great video, change of clothes for the crew I'd think.
 
 

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ruptured bowel. he likes football and may have gotten punched in belly. distended belly, peritonitis....
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