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Documentary on the Life and Legacy of James O. Page Will Inform and Inspire

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Page Paramedic Must View New Cobb County (GA) Paramedic School Doubles Training Capacity Cobb County will soon have more paramedics thanks to a new partnership between Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services and Metro Atlanta Ambulance Service.

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Falck Launches in Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex

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Falck USA has officially launched ambulance operations in the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex, marking a major expansion into the Southwest. The company will provide advanced life support, critical care transport, and 911 emergency response—delivering timely, expert care with professionalism and compassion.

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AmeriPro Health Bolsters Mississippi Presence with New Emergency Services Agreement in George County

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AmeriPro will provide two advanced life support (ALS) ambulance trucks 24 hours a day, and a full suite of advanced technology and equipment, including state-of-the-art cardiac monitoring, LUCAS devices capable of delivering automated chest compressions during a cardiac arrest, ZOLL ventilators, and other high-tech patient care tools.

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OMI, NOMI, and EMS: The Case for EMS Recognition of Occlusive MI

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Hershey Medical Center Editors : Alex Blau, DO; Michael DeFilippo, DO, Assistant Professor of EM & EMS, WashU School of Medicine Clinical Case The day after a snowstorm you are working for a rural, advanced life support (ALS) agency and you are called to a 62-year-old gentleman with chest pain.

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Lifesaving Whole Blood Program Begins in CO

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“Less than 2% of all ground ambulances in the United States are carrying whole blood,” Dr. Sean Keenan, the EMS medical director in Teller County for UCHealth said. “To be able to give them a new tool … this is tremendously exciting and I think it’s really going to see some benefits for our community.”

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Simulation Training as a Strategy for Workforce Retention in EMS

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The closest ambulance is not available due to staffing. 1 min read EMS Recruitment & Retention News News Feed Headlines Maryland Documentary on the Life and Legacy of James O. What do you mean the paramedics are 45 minutes away? My mother is not breathing!” “I’m I’m sorry ma’am.

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The Widely Varying Role of the Advanced EMT in Modern EMS

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Although its name and structure changed, the rural ambulance service merged with the town fire department’s paramedic-level EMS providers approximately ten years ago. Before that the ambulance service was using AEMTs back when they were referred to as EMT-Intermediates and continues to do so now that they are called advanced EMTs.

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