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Odds are, you’ve attempted to explain a prehospital intervention to a patient who, for some reason, could not understand what you were trying to communicate.
It’s not the dedicated federal EMS office so many in our industry want, but a bill working its way through the U.S. Senate would represent at least a partial step in that direction.
A study conducted in Ann Arbor, MI, by John D. Piette, PhD, of the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Health Care System and the University of Michigan shows clear results.
In 1992, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published the first National Standard Curriculum for PIER—an expanded and revised version of a 1986 document, PIER for EMS…