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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If you missed the announcement from HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell (published in the March 5, 2015 issue of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine) on new Medicare targets for value-based payments, it's past time to wake up and smell the coffee! Bottom line (and the reason EMS services need to be concerned): Medicare (aka HHS or Health and Human Services) plans to substantially accelerate…
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