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Pa. man dies during storm when 911 calls unheeded
Sunday Feb 28, 2010
(0.0 / 0) Top Stories PITTSBURGH – With her boyfriend in severe abdominal pain, Sharon Edge called 911 for an ambulance in the early morning hours of Feb. 6. Heavy snow was falling — so heavy it would all but bring the city to a standstill — and Curtis Mitchell needed to go to a hospital.
Author: DAN NEPHIN (AP)
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Colleton County Firefighter- Medic loses job over Facebook post
Saturday Feb 27, 2010 (0.0 / 0) Top Stories COLLETON COUNTY, SC (WCSC) - A Colleton County paramedic and firefighter was fired over a video he posted on Facebook.
Author: Hatzel Vela
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Senator Specter Announces Nearly $130 million in Stimulus Funds to Develop Broadband Technology in PA
Saturday Feb 20, 2010 (0.0 / 0) 
Industry Issues Senators Arlen Specter and Bob Casey announced that the Department of Commerce has awarded two major grants to Pennsylvania, totaling nearly $130 million, to develop broadband technology across the state of Pennsylvania.Author: Press Release
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New NAEMT Position Statement Opposes Ems Participation In Executions
Wednesday Feb 17, 2010 (0.0 / 0)
Industry Issues In a new position statement, the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) states its strong opposition to participation in capital punishment by EMTs, paramedics or other emergency medical practitioners. Author: NAEMT
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Physician Develops A Cradle Which Turns iPhone Into A Lifesaving CPR Tool?
Wednesday Feb 10, 2010
(5.0 / 1) Top Stories Since the iPhone has been released, we've see quite a few medical apps and accessories... But not like this. Dr. Ivor Kovic, an emergency physician from Croatia, has developed a device which turns the iPhone into a physical tool.
Author: Compiled
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NAEMT Advocates for Fair Pay And Benefits For EMS Practitioners In New Position Statement
Wednesday Feb 10, 2010 (0.0 / 0)
Industry Issues Clinton, Miss. — In a new position statement, the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) states its commitment to advocating for fair and equitable pay and benefits for EMS practitioners on parity with their partners in public safety and other allied health care services.Author: NAEMT
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Using Teaching Games to in the Classroom to Teach any Topic!
Monday Feb 08, 2010 (0.0 / 0) Instrctor's Corner This article will discuss 10 basic tips to help you use training games as a serious teaching tool in the classroom.
Author: John Dillon, Paramedic/Educator
Submitted By: John Dillon (C3softworks)
Who are you talking to
Saturday Feb 06, 2010 (0.0 / 0) Health & Safety Have you ever stopped at a traffic light and just noticed how many of the right of way drivers are on their cell phones? Incredible! Have you actually been driving on the highway in town and noticed how many of your driving neighbors are busy talking to someone not in their vehicle? Can you count this high without one of those high priced calculators in hand?
Author: Sharon Grigsby
Submitted By: Sharon Grigsby (GRIGGSONE)
NAEMT Published Position StatementOn EMS Ambulance Safety
Tuesday Sep 22, 2009 (0.0 / 0)
Industry Issues Clinton, Miss. — The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) has published a position statement to address serious factors in ambulance safety and their dangers to EMS practitioners — such as a high risk of occupational injury and death for EMS practitioners during patient transportation. In the statement, NAEMT states that it supports the development of a culture of safety in all EMS systems in our nation.Author:
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STAT MEDEVAC Physician Receives “EMS 10: Innovators In EMS 2008” Award
Saturday Mar 28, 2009 (0.0 / 0)
Industry Issues Frank Guyette, MD, MS, MPH of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was recognized during the opening ceremonies at The JEMS Conference on Thursday, March 26th.Author: Daniel Nakles
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FOUR YOUNG PATIENTS RECEIVE FANTASY TRIP
Saturday Jan 31, 2009 (0.0 / 0) Public Service Announcements Four young loyal fans are getting an opportunity of a lifetime to cheer on their hometown Pittsburgh Steelers in Superbowl XLIII
Author: Daniel Nakles
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EMS Village 2.0 - Plans for a new beginning
Friday Jan 23, 2009
(3.0 / 2) 
Site News We've been away and neglectful. Please accept our apologies. In the coming weeks, we plan to resuscitate EMS village and bring her back to her original glory. Please read on.Author:
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DOÑA ANA COUNTY AMBULANCE PROVIDER EARNS NATIONAL CERTIFICATION
Wednesday Dec 10, 2008 (0.0 / 0) Top Stories AMR, the ambulance company contracted by Doña Ana County has become only the second nationally accredited ambulance service in the State of New Mexico
Author: MIke Shabkie
Submitted By: mike shabkie (RSQME321)
Obituary of a legacy...a hero and a friend of EMS
Tuesday Nov 18, 2008 (0.0 / 0) Off Duty Joe was a college professor at STCC and was well known as an Instructor for CPR and First Aid he taught many of the areas fire and police department first responders. He was also an instructor for EMT's, and was instrumental in founding the paramedic program at STCC.
Author: Mass Live Obituary
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UPDATE: Woman left for dead dies
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (3.4 / 14) Top Stories A Texas State University senior who was presumed dead after a traffic collision and left unattended in the wreckage for more than two hours in near-freezing temperatures died of her injuries Monday afternoon, officials said.
Author: Brian Chasnoff
Submitted By: Erik Olufs (eolufs)
Medics Ambulance Service EMS Zone
Saturday Dec 15, 2007
(2.0 / 2) Top Stories Medics Ambulance Service will be taking over our Bls 911 zone January 1 2008. Currently AMR is providing this service in place of Medics.
Author: Andrew Cohen
Submitted By: andy cohen (gv132)
Atlanta Hospital Board Poised to Relinquish Operational Control
Monday Nov 26, 2007 (0.0 / 0) Top Stories In the 115-year life span of Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital, today could be historic. Several members of the Grady board say the board is poised to relinquish operational control of the hospital, aiming to save it from financial ruin.
Author: Craig Schneider
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Interactive X-Word Challenge: Paramedic Patient Assessment
Monday Nov 26, 2007 (0.0 / 0) 
Student Bytes Sirius Innovations, LLC is please to announce another in a series of educational tools for EMS Instructors and students. This month we cover vocabulary words for the Paramedic dealing with Patient Assessment. Good Luck!Author: Philip Hayes
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City's offer: Get paid to become a Honolulu EMT
Sunday Nov 25, 2007
(2.8 / 5) Top Stories With 18 percent of Honolulu's emergency medical technician and paramedic positions vacant, the city has decided to start paying people to learn the job.
Author: Treena Shapiro
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Off-duty EMT kills wife, self
Sunday Nov 25, 2007
(4.0 / 2) Top Stories DETROIT -- Police are working today to determine why an emergency medical technician fatally shot his wife and wounded his 9-year-old son a day before killing himself.
Author:
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Rural/Metro Wins $30 Mln. Contract To Continue 911 Ambulance Services In Rochester
Sunday Nov 25, 2007 (3.0 / 2) Top Stories Rural/Metro Corp. on Monday revealed the receipt of a new contract term to continue as the exclusive provider of 911 emergency ambulance services in Rochester, New York.
Author:
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Senetor Tom Carper announces volunteer firefighter / EMS legislation
Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (5.0 / 2) 
Political Action News Sen. Tom Carper stopped at the Georgetown fire hall Monday, Nov. 19, to announce the introduction of the Firefighters and EMS Personnel Job Protection Act.
Author:
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Firefighters Taking New Role as Anti-Terrorist Eyes of the US Government
Friday Nov 23, 2007 (0.0 / 0) WMD & Terrorism Watch Washington - Firefighters in major cities are being trained to take on a new role as lookouts for terrorism, raising concerns of eroding their standing as trusted American icons and infringing on people's privacy.
Author: Eileen Sullivan
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Some more of the brutal novel from Carl Post
Friday Nov 23, 2007
(1.0 / 2) Essays In The History Of EMS EMS Village continues to preview Carl Post's novel about one volunteer scramble call that causes a civil war over the course of just 96 hours. A call is comprised of victims and caregivers. It affects all of them. And sometimes the surrounding society as well? Offered here in several installments and lightly censored as needed to maintain decorum! Ed.
Author: Carl J. Post
Submitted By: carl post (NYGRADEMSRET)
Interactive EMT-I Patient Assessment Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle Released
Monday Nov 19, 2007 (0.0 / 0) Instrctor's Corner Sirius Innovations, LLC is please to announce the latest in a series of educational tools for EMS Instructors and students. This month we cover vocabulary words for the EMT-I dealing with Patient Assessment.
Author: Philip L. Hayes
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Services set for Dallas paramedic killed in traffic accident
Monday Nov 19, 2007 (0.0 / 0) Off Duty Funeral arrangements have been set for a Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedic killed over the weekend in a traffic accident.
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Texas: Off-duty paramedic killed in two-car crash
Sunday Nov 18, 2007 (0.0 / 0) Off Duty Julio Alvarado Jr. had seen the damage speeding cars inflict. He'd pulled people from crushed metal, revived some of them and helped extinguish blazing wrecks. It was his job as a Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedic for the last three years, and he loved it.
Author:
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MRSA in Healthcare Settings
Saturday Nov 17, 2007 (0.0 / 0) 
Infection Connection MRSA has been featured in the news and on television programs a great deal recently. MRSA stands for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. This type of bacteria causes “staph” infections that are resistant to treatment with usual antibiotics.
Author: CDC
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FACT SHEET: Invasive MRSA
Saturday Nov 17, 2007 (0.0 / 0)
Infection Connection The estimated number of people developing a serious MRSA infection (i.e., invasive) in 2005 was about 94,360; this is higher than estimates using other methods.Author: CDC
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INTRO: Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Guidance for Healthcare Workers and Healthcare Employers
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (0.0 / 0)
Infection Connection A pandemic is a global disease outbreak. A flu pandemic occurs when a new influenza virus emerges for which people have little or no immunity, and for which there is no vaccine. The disease spreads easily person-to-person, causes serious illness, and can sweep across the country and around the world in a very short time.Author: OSHA
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OSHA solicits public input on comprehensive emergency response standard
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (0.0 / 0)
Industry Issues WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published a Request for Information seeking input from the public to determine what action, if any, the Agency should take to further address emergency response and preparedness. Author: OSHA
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First chapter of a brutal EMS novel
Wednesday Nov 14, 2007 (2.3 / 4) Essays In The History Of EMS This is the first chapter of a long novel about EMS volunteer life in Queens and Brooklyn. The author has just finished it and wants the EMSVillage mainstays to fire away at this attempt at reality therapy. Carl's fourth novel. He has been a radical, provocative and annoying facet of EMSVillage since its very early days. Fire away? Or enjoy it?
Author: Carl J. Post
Submitted By: carl post (NYGRADEMSRET)
Funeral for New York ambulance worker to draw thousands
Monday Nov 12, 2007 (0.0 / 0) 
Line Of Duty Based on the turnout at the wake last night, thousands of firefighters and emergency response workers are expected at the funeral today for 25-year-old Matthew Lamb. He's the EMT who was killed last week when his ambulance went off Route 9 in Garrison and crashed.Author:
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Heart Attack Survival Rates Double Following Implementation of New Guidelines
Friday Nov 09, 2007 (0.0 / 0)
Industry Issues MADISON, Wis. -- Heart attack survival rates have doubled in Madison, Milwaukee and five other places that were among the first to implement new resuscitation guidelines, including the use of a new airflow device, according to a new study.Author:
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Families of Fla. Drowning Victims Seek Answers from Responding Paramedics
Thursday Nov 08, 2007 (1.0 / 1) Top Stories Relatives of Johnnie “Chubby” Schoolfield Jr. and his longtime friend, Theo Thomas, gathered with friends and community activists Wednesday night to confront the Manatee County paramedics who did not rush into a pond that night in Bradenton to save the
Author:
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Fort Worth Adds Pandemic Kits to Emergency Preparedness Strategy
Thursday Nov 08, 2007 (0.0 / 0)
Infection Connection Influenza has faded from news headlines, but the threat of a pandemic still looms, and the City of Fort Worth is vigilant in its concern about the possibility of an H5N1 "Bird Flu" epidemic. The Fort Worth Public Health Department's Emergency Preparedness Division, headed by Dr. Cathy Spranger, has selected Bird Flu Smart of Mountain View, California to create a pandemic kit for its employees.Author:
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Emergency responder dies following crash
Thursday Nov 08, 2007 (0.0 / 0)
Line Of Duty Garrison – A 25-year-old emergency medical technician with Empire State Ambulance died Thursday from injuries he sustained when the ambulance in which he was riding ran off Route 9 in Garrison and struck a tree. Matthew Lamb was riding in the back of the vehicle at the time of the crash. The driver, a Bronx man, is being treated at Westchester Medical Center.Author:
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New Emergency Response Computer System Announced
Wednesday Nov 07, 2007 (0.0 / 0) Computers & Technology U.S. scientists have created a computer architecture that enables the secure transmission of information to first responders during emergencies. Princeton University researchers said the architecture allows the transmission of sensitive information during such instances as natural disasters, fires or terrorist attacks.
Author: UPI Science News
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FAA won't allow cardiac-arrest machine at traffic-control center
Tuesday Nov 06, 2007 (0.0 / 0) Top Stories WASHINGTON - Though defibrillators are required on all airplanes and in most airports, many air traffic controllers in the nation's 500-plus control centers would be far from the nearest life-saving device should they suffer a heart attack.
Author: Nina Petersen-Perlman, Star Tribune
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Specialized California Disaster Team Undertakes First Task
Monday Oct 29, 2007 (0.0 / 0) Top Stories A unique team of Bay Area disaster specialists led by a San Carlos man was dispatched on its inaugural mission last week to San Diego County, where they provided medical support to people displaced from their homes by the firestorms that ravaged the region.
Author:
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MRSA: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Healthcare Settings
Sunday Oct 28, 2007 (0.0 / 0)
Infection Connection MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, caused more than 94,000 life-threatening infections and nearly 19,000 deaths in the United States in 2005, most of them connected with healthcare settings. These numbers appear in the October 17, 2007, edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)1, as part of the most thorough study to date of trends in invasive MRSA infections.Author: CDC
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Hero performed by Michael Israel in New York
Sunday Oct 28, 2007 (4.0 / 1) Off Duty Don't miss the end...wonderful surprises all the way through. HERO is an amazing accomplishment, a performance you watch with your heart. This work has helped raise interest and awareness for many charities and worthy causes.
Author: YouTube
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Call for Nominations: International Awards Honoring Flood and Swiftwater Rescue
Friday Oct 26, 2007 (0.0 / 0)
Industry Issues The Swiftwater Rescue Committee of the National Association for Search and Rescue is seeking nominations for the 2008 Higgins and Langley Memorial Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Swiftwater Rescue, the highest international honors presented for flood and swiftwater rescue.Author: Swiftwater Rescue Committee of the National Association for Search and Rescue
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Local Ambulance Driver Dancing While Driving On YouTube
Friday Oct 26, 2007 (2.7 / 3) Top Stories McKEESPORT, Pa. -- A local ambulance driver has made his way onto YouTube.com. The three-minute video shows the ambulance driver dancing in his seat to Justin Timberlake’s popular tune, “Sexy Back,” as he speeds through busy roads and intersections in McKeesport.
Author:
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Unity Man Killed In Crash On Way To Work; Brother First EMT On Scene
Thursday Oct 25, 2007 (0.0 / 0) Top Stories UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Police said a 28-year-old Westmoreland County man was killed Thursday morning in Unity Township in a crash on his way to work.
Author:
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FREE Operation SafeEMS™ Program CD Offered By Ferno
Monday Oct 22, 2007 (0.0 / 0)
Industry Issues Ferno and McNeil & Company care about the EMS community and the dedicated professionals who work day in and day out to provide quality care to their patients. It's important to us to keep you INJURY FREE on the job and keep you in your career, doing what you love. Author: Ferno
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CDC estimates 94,000 invasive drug-resistant staph infections occurred in the U.S. in 2005
Saturday Oct 20, 2007 (0.0 / 0)
Infection Connection Methicillin-resistant staph aureus (MRSA) caused more than 94,000 life-threatening infections and nearly 19,000 deaths in the United States in 2005, most of them associated with health care settings, according to the most thorough study of life-threatening infections caused by these bacteria, experts with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report.Author: CDC
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Changes Made to PSOB Determination Process
Monday Oct 15, 2007 (0.0 / 0)
Industry Issues The Department of Justice (DoJ) has issued two policy memorandums to the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program (PSOB) that will significantly change the determination process for PSOB applications made under the Hometown Heroes Survivor Benefits Act.Author: NVFC Press Release
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PSOB Determination Process Amended
Monday Oct 15, 2007 (0.0 / 0)
Industry Issues Today the Department of Justice (DOJ) today issued two significant policy guidance documents that will significantly change the applicant determination process for the Hometown Heroes Survivor Benefits Act under the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program (PSOB).Author: NAEMT Press Release
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Pamela Cohen Named NAEMT Executive Director
Monday Oct 15, 2007 (0.0 / 0)
Industry Issues Clinton, MS—Pamela Cohen has been named as the new executive director for the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT).Author: NAEMT Press Release
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