Advancing the EMS profession

HELP NEEDED! TIP, SIREN, MIH-CP

EMS advocacy

Advocacy Alert | Engage your Members of Congress online and in-person in their home district. The new Treatment-In-Place (TIP) bill introduced in the House (H.R. 8977) and other EMS legislative priorities (SIREN Reauthorization, MIH-CP, EMS Counts, and Medicare Extenders) have the attention of Congress but need your help to move them to the House and Senate floor! Visit NAEMT’s Online Legislative Service to educate and engage your members of Congress, schedule meetings in their district home office, or attend a local Town Hall meeting.

Engage your Members of Congress online!

 

NAEMT RADIO

NAEMT Radio

Episode 36 | NAEMT and State Associations. In this episode, NAEMT Board Member, Melissa McNally, MMSc, BCEM PA-C, NRP and Amy Marsh, Vice President of the South Dakota EMS Association discuss State Associations and their relationship with NAEMT. Melissa, also President of the Florida Association of EMTs and Paramedics, and Amy discuss the benefits of joining a state association and how affiliation with NAEMT offers many benefits in terms of legislative assistance and information sharing.

Episode 35 | Introducing Deb Lally, Executive Director of NAEMT. In this episode, President Susan Bailey takes great pleasure in introducing our new Executive Director, Deb Lally. Deb provides her back story and her immediate priority and tasks, as directed by the NAEMT Board. President Bailey also delivers a key legislative update on Treatment In Place (TIP), which has been reintroduced in Congress with bipartisan support. Reps. Michael Carey (OH-15), Lloyd Doggett (TX-35), Carol Miller (WV-01), Patrick Ryan (NY-18), and Debbie Dingell (MI-12) introduced the bipartisan Improving Access to Emergency Medical Services for Seniors Act. The bill would allow seniors on Medicare to receive at-home emergency medical services to treat minor medical incidents.

Episode 34 | Artificial Intelligence and EMS. In this episode, Bruce Evans, MPA, CFO, NRP, Fire Chief at the Upper Pine River Fire Protection District, discusses the advent of Artificial intelligence (AI) in and around the EMS space. Examining the opportunities for AI usage in the Call Center, Ambulance, ED and beyond, this is a podcast you won't want to miss.

‘Jana Nguyen sits in the back of an ambulance watching live video of the stroke specialists treating the patient she brought to the neurology clinic just 15 minutes earlier. Before reaching the station, a voice interrupts as the dispatch system notifies Jana and her partner, Chip, that they are responding to a call for a sick child. The screen on the wall displays information about their new patient. Jana begins reading about Carla’s medical history—other than being born 6 weeks premature, she’s been healthy – and sees her current vital signs. Based on information collected on the scene, the AIM – artificial intelligence medic – states that there is an 82 percent probability the patient is experiencing anaphylaxis’ EMS Agenda for the Future – EMS Agenda 2050

Resources: 
EMS Agenda for the Futurehttps://www.ems.gov/assets/EMS-Agenda-2050.pdf
Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant Program:Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant Program | US Department of Transportation
Robs previous article on AIhttps://www.ems1.com/ems-trend-report/artificial-intelligence-in-ems-the-future-is-here 

NAEMT Radio is hosted by NAEMT Member and Lighthouse Leadership Program Mentor – Rob Lawrence. View other NAEMT Radio episodes 

 

FREE EMS RECRUITMENT GUIDE

NAEMT EMS Recruitment Guide

Download Guide | In response to the ongoing, critical personnel shortages that our agencies are facing, NAEMT’s EMS Workforce Committee has collected some best practices and successful case studies of EMS agency recruitment strategies. Their work has been compiled into a new guide on Innovative Recruitment Strategies for EMS Agencies. This guide includes:

• Tips for starting a recruiting program.
• Case studies on what’s worked for EMS agencies.
• Practical advice on getting out the word about job openings and marketing your EMS agency using social media.

 

 

ONLINE RECERTIFICATION COURSES

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Get the CE you need, when you need it, all in one easy to use place. The Recert.com course library offers HUNDREDS of high-quality EMS trauma, medical, and operational online courses, including the best NAEMT education! Most courses take just 1 hour to complete and feature interactive, media-rich, scenario-based learning. View Courses

WORLD TRAUMA SYMPOSIUM

Bruce Barnhart 

Scott B. Frame Memorial Lecture
Traumatic Brain Injuries and Lessons Learned from the EPIC Study

Bruce Barnhart, MSN, RN, CEP 

The Excellence in Prehospital Injury Care (EPIC) trial has demonstrated that EMS care can drastically improve survival in patients with moderate, severe, or critical traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). Hear from an aggressive prevention and treatment advocate of the three “H-bombs” of TBI care: hypoxemia, hypotension, and hyperventilation. Learn how to achieve lower rates of intubation despite greater injury severity, and hear updates on prehospital TBI management guidelines.

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