It is dangerous out there, no doubt about it. We have a responsibility to protect ourselves, our brothers and sisters and our patients from harm. The latest danger seems to me not to be carfentanil but paranoia. That's right, I'll call it "fentanyl analog paranoia." It's bad enough that widespread misinformation has made prehospital providers the poster children for misuse of nitrile gloves. Now, we're helping to spread ridiculous warnings about…
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The mother of a 13-year-old girl gave me a wake-up call several weeks ago. After her daughter overdosed on heroin, her husband rushed home from work following a panic-stricken call. On the way, he passed an ambulance idling on a roadway several blocks from their home. That same ambulance later arrived to provide care but only after law enforcement appeared on scene. I knew exactly what the ambulance was doing--staging until the scene was safe. Trying to explain this protocol to the…
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E.V.E.N.T. or the EMS Voluntary Event Notification Tool is a reporting web site launched in 2012. Backed by a long list of prestigious supporters, EVENT was designed to accept anonymous reports of EMS safety concerns in an effort to improve safety across the EMS spectrum. The concept was similar to an airline safety system that accepted "near miss" reports from…
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FDNY is the largest fire department in the United States and is a trendsetter. A recent report by the Citizens Budget Commission, a New York City watchdog organization puts some very interesting handwriting on the FDNY wall. The report, "Twenty Years Later: Integrating Services In The New York City Fire Department" reflects growing call volumes, steadily declining fires and ever…
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Which is better: letting pain and muscle spasm immobilize an injured spine or doing it with the same tools we’ve used for decades? Should hypothermia begin DURING the arrest? Do response times make any difference whatsoever in patient outcomes? The answers to these and other hot EMS topics were intensely debated in Dallas last week at the 14th annual Gathering of Eagles, EMS State of the Science Conference.
The U.S. Metropolitan Municipalities EMS Medical Directors…
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At the January 26, 2011 meeting of the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) Medical Device Advisory Committee, Circulatory Systems Devices Panel, a recommendation emerged to tighten regulation of AEDs (Automatic External Defibrillators). Currently, AEDs are listed as Class III (high risk) medical devices being…
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