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EMS Operations covers planning, procedures, programs, tactics and the full range of considerations in emergency medical services response. Topics include scene management, emergency vehicle operations and driving, fleet maintenance, tactical EMS, patient violence and restraint, protocols, infection control, system profiles, incident discussion and much more.
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The Changing Face of PIOs
It's more important than ever before for PIOs to find new ways to fulfill the constant goal of outreach and community education in an ever-changing world.
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Preventing Errors in EMS
The EMS Voluntary Event Notification Tool (EVENT) provides a tool for EMS providers and others to anonymously report events that have occurred, could have occurred or could potentially occur.
Nasty People
You will always have to treat difficult people in EMS; how you handle yourself is what will make a difference in the call.
Policy Development
Developing well-researched policies with applicability to your EMS agency is paramount.
- Jumpsuits & Pinstripes
- What Does Your Social Media Policy Say?
- Highway Safety: Protecting Your Patient and Yourself
- Beyond the Box
- Community Partnerships
- Itty Bitty Boxes
- Windy City
- The Responder Knowledge Base
- Service Photos
- West Virginia's EMS Retirement Plan Aims to Retain Providers
- Pediatric Disaster Preparedness
- Reworking Rehab
- Assistance Closer Than a Phone Call Away
- Partnership for the People
- River Safety and Rescue Program Attacks Silent Epidemic
- Don't Dawdle With Trauma
- Serving the Community One Car at a Time
- 9-1-1 and Public Relations
- Case Review: Responding to Special Needs
- Community Health Program Reaches Out to Frequent Flyers
- Preparing Pets for Disaster
- A Growing EMS Community
- Presumptive Innocence
- Haiti Response: First-Person Accounts
- EMS Response to Mass Violence
- Managing a Mass Casualty Incident: A Military Medic's Perspective
- The Glass Factory Disaster: Terrorism Response in Iraq
- The Big One
- EMS Revisited: October 1991 Luby's Shooting
- Case Study: All My Best Friends Carry Guns
- Emergency Preparedness: Expanding to an All-Hazards Approach
- MCI Management Tips
- NAEMT: Medical Direction is Essential Component of EMS Systems
- The Secrets to Scottsdale's Survival Success
- H1N1 Pandemic Preparedness & Crisis Management in the Media Age
- Multipatient Medical Event Tests Wake County EMS
- A Safer Place to Work
- Minimizing the Damage
- The Perfect Storm
- The Strategic National Stockpile (and What It Can Do For You)
- Don't Come Around Here
- The Hidden Battles Facing Public Safety IT Managers
- Helping Haiti
- The National Health Security Strategy
- Criminal Assault
- Target: tPA
- Describing What Happened
