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In This Issue: May 2012

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Lessons Learned From the Joplin Tornado

What should an EMS system take from such a disaster?

Article • May 1st, 2012
Beyond Basic Training

How EMT-Basics can assist in 12-lead EKG acquisition and transmission

Article • May 1st, 2012
How To Win the Race to Save Lives

Pit crews go a long way toward winning races, and they can do the same...

Article • May 1st, 2012
CDC Updates Field Triage Guidance

When should you go to that Level 1?

Article • May 1st, 2012
How Temporary Ischemia Reduces Later Harm

What is remote conditioning, and how does it work?

Article • May 1st, 2012
Session Highlights

A roundup of some of the key content presented at the Gathering of Eagles

Article • May 1st, 2012
Inside an EMS Conference

An interview with NAEMSP Program Chair David Slattery, MD

Article • May 1st, 2012
Who You Callin’ Community Paramedics?

The term can mean a few different things—and Maine is willing to...

Article • May 1st, 2012
A Quicker Kind of Cool

New York medics trying earlier hypothermia for SCA victims

Article • May 1st, 2012
Who's Taking the Fall?

Wake County is looking to treat and release simple-fall patients in...

Article • April 30th, 2012
A Primer on Pediatric Diabetic Emergencies

What do you do with a hypo- or hyperglycemic child?

Article • April 30th, 2012

Managing Sepsis in the Adult Patient

by Scott R. Snyder, BS, NREMT-P, Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH, NREMT-P, Kevin T. Collopy, BA, FP-C, CCEMT-P, NREMT-P, WEMT

What you need to know about emerging diagnostic trends and treatments for...

When “Everything Hurts”

by Mike Smith, BS, MICP

A patient in pain requires you to don your detective hat
Fence Splitter

by James Augustine, MD, FACEP

Evading police leads to a gruesome testicular injury
Product Review: Solar-1 EMS Jacket with Bloodborne Pathogen Protection

by Ed Mund

Duty-wear jackets have multiple roles to fill and jackets must do all these...
I Protest

by Mike Rubin, BS, NREMT-P

We need to move toward a more civil discourse, within and without.
Literature Review: Prehospital Epi for Cardiac Arrest

by Angelo Salvucci, Jr., MD, FACEP

ROSC is one thing—survival, apparently, another
Loud Music

by Thom Dick

Our transfer calls can define us
Pressing Issues: Q&A with D. Randy Kuykendall

by Jenifer Goodwin

D. Randy Kuykendall sees state EMS offices as an advocate for the needs...
Toxicology Today

by Steven "Kelly" Grayson, NREMT-P, CCEMT-P and William E. (Gene) Gandy, JD, LP

Never underestimate the ingenuity of drug users
A Washington Story

by Scott Cravens, EMT-B

EMS on the Hill Day offers a unique experience for all providers
NEMSAC Reviewing National Triage Proposal

SUSAN NICOL
Source: EMSWorld.com News

There's a move to adopt a national triage system that would involve core...

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