This Week in EMS: EMT Licenses Revoked...EMS Layoffs...Alternative Airway Training
This Week in EMS: A Recap for June 12 - 18, 2010
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Mass. Revokes 211 EMT Licenses
The state revoked the licenses of 211 EMTs after an investigation revealed they held falsified training records. The EMTs, who work for 10 private and 14 municipal ambulance services across the state, face license revocations ranging from 45 days to nine months.
Detroit's budget battle is forcing dozens of EMS workers out of a job and putting public safety at risk, as a fleet of 24 medic units will be reduced to just 15.
Utah Program Curbs Unnecessary Trips to the ER
Dubbed Utah's Safe-to-Wait Project, the first year of the experiment is a success, state health officials say, curbing non-emergency use of ERs by 55 percent.
EMS Training Center
Managing the Airway Outside, Upside Down and Inside Out
As we know, patients are not manikins, so it is as important for EMS providers to practice non-traditional presentations as it is to practice "routine" intubation scenarios. This article describes several unique, lifelike training scenarios that can be accomplished using airway task trainers to simulate real-life conditions.
The Corner Office: Practical Management for EMS Leaders
EMS Leadership Part 1: Master or Servant?
Servant leadership is a leadership style that supports success no matter the profession, organization or social framework. A servant leader seeks to motivate followers to be confident enough to take the lead when the leader is not present. Learn how this style of leadership can help you motivate and encourage your EMS staff to perform to the best of their abilities all of the time.
Industry Best Practices
Assistance Closer Than a Phone Call Away
Residents who live in the 2,800-home, incorporated cooperative of Rockaway Point, NY--and friends and family members who love them--can rest easy knowing assistance for EMS, police and fire is just a press of a button away thanks to donations of personal emergency response systems from the Rockaway Point Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department to those in need.
Prehospital Profiles
Lebanon Rescue Promotes Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Response from the Lebanon (ME) Rescue Department during the record-making and -breaking ice storms across New England in January 1998 and a decade later in December 2008 are perfect examples of its "Neighbors Helping Neighbors" mantra. During both storms, volunteers traveled door to door to check on residents who couldn't be reached by phone or were isolated in their homes without family nearby to check on them. This small department has also been successful in receiving several substantial grants, as well as establishing a Junior EMS Program. Read more about the success story that is Lebanon Rescue.
New This Month: Reading Room
Author Interviews and Writing Advice
Don't miss our Q&A with Janice Ballenger, author of Addicted to Life & Death, who, as a deputy coroner for Lancaster County, had the unenviable task of responding to the October 2006 Amish schoolhouse shooting in Lancaster County, PA, and processing its young victims.
Featured EMS Magazine Article: June 2010
Guest Editorial: Partnership for the People
Fire-EMS rivalries were set aside when providers in Colorado begin sharing stations. Read about this successful marriage that seeks to serve the community while saving money.
Continuing Education
Children's bodies are a world apart from adults'. One of the easiest ways to understand why drugs may have different actions and different effects in children is to take a system-by-system approach to pediatric anatomy.
This CE activity is approved by EMS Magazine, an organization accredited by the Continuing Education Coordinating Board for Emergency Medical Services (CECBEMS), for 1.5 CEUs. After reading the article, take the CE test that accompanies this lesson at www.rapidce.com.
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