JEMS
JUNE 11, 2025
One ambulance district’s Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) Division has recently made a big impact in reducing opioid-related overdose deaths in their community by increasing harm-reduction products and therapies. 1 Lincoln County Ambulance District responded to 166 opioid overdose calls in 2022 and 107 opioid overdose calls in 2023.
JEMS
JUNE 11, 2025
While advanced EMT training and certification is recognized at the state and national registry level, there’s a great deal of variety in how agencies use AEMTS. AEMTs in a Hybrid EMS System Steven Kroll is the chief and executive director of Delmar Bethlehem EMS (DBEMS), an agency that covers the town of Bethlehem in Albany County.
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JEMS
JUNE 16, 2025
15 min read Mobile Integrated Health and Community Paramedicine News News Feed Community Paramedic Headlines News Feed Oregon Medetomidine Overdose: Why More Naloxone Is Not the Answer—But Timely Respiratory Support Is A new nonopioid sedative, medetomidine, is rapidly becoming the next adulterant of concern in illicit drug supply.
JEMS
JUNE 13, 2025
For EMTs and paramedics, this growing trend requires a shift in how we recognize and respond to overdose syndromes. 2 This adulterant increases overdose severity and complicates the clinical picture. Importantly, these overdoses are often incompletely responsive to naloxone, creating confusion and concern among first responders.
JEMS
JUNE 12, 2025
10 min read EMS Operations Exclusives AEMT EMS EMT New York Mobile Integrated Health Significantly Reduces Opioid-Related Deaths Mobile health and harm-reduction strategies led to a 70% drop in opioid overdose deaths through innovative, life-saving care.
Peter Canning
JANUARY 14, 2024
AEMTs may administer epinephrine IV in cardiac arrest.* Sodium bicarbonate should only be administered in cardiac arrest for suspected sodium channel blocker overdoses. Passive oxygenation (via nonrebreather) and continuous cardiac compressions should no longer be used for cardiac arrest in absence of an advanced airway.
NCOAE
MARCH 8, 2021
On the other hand, you could be called in to attend to the victim of a car accident or a shooting or a heart attack, drowning, mountaineering accident, or drug overdose. You may even have to deliver a baby! You can never predict what will happen over the course of any given shift.
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