Quality Assurance

Quality Corner: How Much ALS is Enough?

There’s a big difference between a technician and clinician as it relates to EMS. A technician performs mechanical skills, such as obtaining vital signs and basic interventions in a very restricted fashion. As a last ditch effort to preserve lives threatened by time sensitive emergencies, a technician may defibrillate ventricular fibrillation or give a fluid bolus to someone who is hypotensive. Conversely, a clinician is a true practitioner of medicine who understands the pathophysiology...
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Quality Corner: How Much ALS is Enough?

EMS providers may sometimes feel like a taxi service, but we should always be more than that

Article • May 16th, 2013
Quality Corner: EMS and Health Insurance

STEMI treatment driven by Medicare’s D2B requirement is the first time most EMS agencies and hospitals have been forced to work together

Article • April 12th, 2013
Q&A with Mike Taigman

How to improve the health of your community

Article • April 1st, 2013
Critical Thinking

Criticism can help us improve—if we let it

Article • April 1st, 2013
Quality Corner: How to Make Better EMS Providers

There are three easily remembered, simply executed items, which I believe, if followed, will greatly improve the quality of patient care of any EMS provider

Article • January 18th, 2013
The EVENT System Offers Insight Into Our Errors

What are we doing wrong? Med errors top first list

Article • January 1st, 2013
Emergency Response Teams

Teaching local businesses to provide basic first aid and CPR until EMS arrives.

Article • November 30th, 2012
Quality Corner: How Do You Get Quality Customer Feedback?

Developing personal relationships is still the most effective way to improve interagency relationships, resolve problems and improve customer service

Article • October 26th, 2012
Call Recording Comes to Rural Minnesota

Multimedia solution deployed across 19 counties

Article • October 26th, 2012
Quality Improvement in EMS

One of the biggest challenges facing quality coordinators of smaller agencies is a lack of resources.

Article • October 12th, 2012
Telemedicine in EMS: How Can It Help?

How can EMS agencies leverage telemedicine to maximize quality and safety for both patients and providers?

Article • October 12th, 2012
Fatal Mistakes in Prehospital Medicine

Few tools have as great a potential to cause harm as the laryngoscope, the syringe and the ink pen

Article • October 1st, 2012
Case Study: Why Paper Is Poison

What are the benefits of electronic patient care reports?

Article • September 14th, 2012
It Takes a System to Make a Save

In the HeartRescue Project’s approach to improving SCA survival, everyone plays a role

Article • September 1st, 2012
What Do You Do With That Data?

NEMSIS is power—learn how to take advantage

Article • September 1st, 2012

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