theEMSstore.com, the fastest growing online source for EMS equipment and supplies, is proud to announce the addition of StatPacks to their rapidly growing product offering. StatPacks change the way Emergency Clinicians think about carrying their gear. Relying on advanced ergonomics and intelligent design, StatPacks keep the medic’s hands and mind free to ...

Clinton, Miss. — To continue to build and support the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT)'s national EMS advocacy efforts at the state level, 18 NAEMT members have been appointed as volunteer state advocacy coordinators. The new state advocacy coordinators are: Arkansas - Kenneth C. Jones, BSE, NREMT-P California – Michael McDonough, NREMT-P Colorado – ...

St. Paul Pioneer Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — Where can you go to fix a broken heart" An ambulance service based in St. Paul is working with a Florida company to answer the question with a map of all automated external defibrillators in the Twin Cities. With the map and an electronic system for alerting good Samaritans, the emergency call center at Allina Medical Transportation hopes it will be able ...

Wake Forest, NC - It is with both sadness and joy that I announce the retirement of Ed Hampton, Nationa al Sales Manager of Southeastern Emergency Equipment , effective Feb. 29, 2012. After enjoying a career that spans over four decades, Ed is putting away his demo bag to spend more time with his family—especially his (5) grrandchildren—and the Pinecroft-Sedgefield Fire Department where ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Officials have approved a Mich. fire department's plan to test three quick-response units amid looming budget cuts. The pickup trucks with extended cabs and boxes on the back can be operated by only two firefighters, and Fire Chief Laura Knapp of the Grand Rapids Fire Department hopes they will help generate $21 million in savings and maintain service in the event of ...

EMS has come a long way since the 1970s, when ambulances morphed from converted hearses to big, boxy trucks. It was a time when ambulance attendants became EMS providers, changing out of white smocks and into station uniforms and jumpsuits. Over time, scope of practice expanded (and contracted), and the ways in which EMS was implemented diversified. Through all of this change, was one constant — ...

Americans have put on weight in the past 30 years. So too have many EMS providers. This has created a near perfect storm. The patients are getting heavier while in general, the EMS workforce has gotten both older and heavier. One reason this has not already resulted in widespread crisis is better technology for moving them. The first mitigation technology for obesity was the pneumatic lift gate. The ...

The Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON — A new push is under way to improve the care people get after they call 911, when minutes can make the difference between life and death. A growing number of communities are training their 911 call centers to instruct bystanders by telephone in the best way to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, which has been shown to increase a patient's ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – EMSGrantsHelp, the leading online grant information and assistance resource for EMS professionals, has announced that two members of its team will be presenting at the upcoming 2012 Human Patient Simulation Network (HPSN) Conference. The Annual HPSN Conference will be held from Feb 28 – Mar 1, 2012, in Tampa, Florida. Each year hundreds of leaders, educators, innovators ...

The care we need to provide has to include a good measure of comfort and compassion. Could the board have been padded? Might analgesics be provided? Not all of what we provide as care in the back of the unit is based in hard science and statistics.