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ECG Consult: 63yo Male Experiencing Chest Pain
Tue, Jun 25, 2019 John Hayden, MD, EdD, FACEP , Jonathan Barney, BA, EMT, MS4 In this month's ECG Consult, we encounter a 63-year-old male with a history of hyperlipidemia, hyperension, and rheumatoid arthritis who presents with chest pain. MORE ECG Consult: 63yo Female, Onset of Weakness while Cleaning ECG Educational Standards for Prehospital Providers By J.
UN Health Agency to Remove Controversial Opioid Guidelines
By CLAIRE GALOFARO Associated Press The World Health Organization notified U.S. lawmakers last Wednesday that it will discontinue two publications on prescribing opioid painkillers in response to allegations that the pharmaceutical industry influenced the reports. The pledge to remove the guidelines comes a month after U.S. Reps. Katherine Clark and Hal Rogers accused the WHO of being influenced by Purdue Pharma, the American manufacturer of the potent painkiller OxyContin.
Stars of Life 2019: John Sossei
Tue, Jun 25, 2019 JEMS Executive Editor Mike McEvoy talks to some of the American Ambulance Association's Stars of Life award recipients, including John Sossei. John is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and is now with Armstrong Ambulance Service, which provides paramedic services to multiple 911 service areas and entities in the Metro-Boston region Watch in the player above, and learn more about the Stars of Life program HERE.
Podcast: Cardiac Arrest Protocol for Excellence in Lawrence, Kansas
Fri, Jun 21, 2019 Lawrence-Douglas County (Kan.) Fire Medical instituted Cardiac Arrest Protocol for Excellence (CAPE), which resulted in a significant improvement in their cardiac arrest patient care processes and better outcomes. In the June 2019 edition of the "Firemedically Speaking" podcast, JEMS Executive Editor Mike McEvoy talks with Division Chief Kevin Joles and Medical Director Caleb Trent about the CAPE program, its design, implementation and results. Listen in the player above.
Alameda County EMS Improves Cardiac Arrest Survival
Alameda County is approximately 750 square miles with a population of 1.6 million and is marked by demographic and socioeconomic diversity. The county consists of urban, suburban, as well as rural areas.
Progressive Systemwide Collaboration
Every year, more than 400,000 people suffer non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in the United States.1-4 This represents the third leading cause of death in industrial nations and accounts for eight times as many deaths as caused by car crashes.5,6 Previous decades have seen minimal improvement in survival outcomes,1 but recently, many systems are improving survival rates among OHCA patients by using a systems-based approach.7-12 Many successful EMS systems have adopted a...
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