JEMS

JUNE 26, 2025

Page’s professional life is intertwined with the widespread acceptance of paramedics in the early 1970s. Page was a Battalion Chief for Los Angeles County and oversaw the introduction of paramedics there in 1969. He continued to inspire and facilitate the profession’s growth in the following decades.

Mobile Integrated Health

ACEP Now

MAY 9, 2025

For many emergency physicians and paramedics, intubation is a standard and satisfying procedure that not only secures a definitive airway but also patient disposition. However, paramedic experience for intubation may entail one to eight attempts per year. References Dyson K, Bray JE, Smith K, et al. 3,4 Which is Best?

Paramedic

NAEMSP

APRIL 18, 2025

The paramedic on scene states that the man was the driver of a golf cart traveling at high speeds when it struck a tree. Rosenbaum SB, Gupta V, Patel P, et al. The air crew successfully identifies a safe landing place near where the ambulance is staged. CNS Neurosci Ther. 2013 Jun;19(6):370-80. doi: 10.1111/cns.12099. Epub 2013 Apr 10.

EMS

Irish College of Paramedics

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

MethodsWorld Cafs were hosted regionally, with 63 participants from the three practitioner levels (31 EMTs, 22 paramedics, 10 advanced paramedics). The regulator may have missed an opportunity to provide the basis for a future robust system of CPD for paramedics and advanced paramedics. MethodsWillis, et al.

Paramedic

JEMS

JUNE 21, 2025

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.

Mobile Integrated Health

JEMS

JULY 7, 2025

Perkins ZB, Greenhalgh R, Avest E, et al. Sutori D, Erdelyi LS, Uri I, et al. Dorsett M, Allen H, Garbacz H, et al. Baker PO, Karim SR, Smith SW, et al. Perkins ZB, Greenhalgh R, Avest E, et al. Sutori D, Erdelyi LS, Uri I, et al. Prehospital Resuscitative Thoracotomy for Traumatic Cardiac Arrest.

E-9-1-1

JEMS

JUNE 27, 2025

Paramedics with Ute Pass Regional Health Service District are now bringing another pathway to life when things go terribly wrong. We know that putting blood in the hands of firefighters, paramedics and EMTs is the first step in saving those lives.” In some moments of trauma or crisis, blood is life.

Mobile Integrated Health

Don't Forget the Bubbles

JUNE 10, 2025

Paramedics have consistently highlighted the need for more structured paediatric training, access to practical clinical decision tools, and greater support from NHS Trusts. Most of these requests were from Band 5 newly qualified Paramedics ( 43% ) or Band 6 Paramedics ( 40% ). Proctor A, Billing J, Lyttle M, et al.

E-9-1-1

JEMS

JULY 3, 2025

What do you mean the paramedics are 45 minutes away? According to the 2024 Michigan Healthcare Workforce Index, a staggering 10-year shortage of paramedics between 2023 and 2033 will rise to 1,160 paramedics and 621 emergency medical technicians (EMTs). My mother is not breathing!” “I’m I’m sorry ma’am.

EMS

Don't Forget the Bubbles

JUNE 10, 2025

Paramedics have highlighted the need for more targeted paediatric education, better access to prehospital clinical decision-making tools, and stronger support from NHS Trusts to help guide and inform their care. Improving Paramedic Confidence with Paediatric Patients: A Scoping Review. Proctor A, Billing J, Lyttle M, et al.

Emergency Department

Don't Forget the Bubbles

APRIL 28, 2025

Paramedics are increasingly required to assess patients and determine whether they can be safely managed at home with self-care or primary care or if they need to be transferred to the hospital. In line with HCPC requirements, paramedics must use evidence-based practice to make informed clinical decisions. Communicability Marin et al.

Paramedic

JEMS

JUNE 23, 2025

Treat in Place and Community Paramedic Recently, EMS professionals contacted Congress during EMS on the Hill Day to advocate for the Community Paramedicine Act and H.R. Any EMS organization looking to operate in this arena should capitalize on working with healthcare systems as a subcontracted service for community paramedic programs.

EMS

JEMS

JULY 23, 2025

Al-Beltagi, M. 10 min read Exclusives Mental Health and Wellness Coronavirus EMS EMT Paramedic The Kids Are Alright Balancing emergency work and fatherhood, Nick Carson shares how parenting helped him reconnect with joy, purpose and emotional resilience. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHoP), (2017). Guan, J., &

E-9-1-1

JEMS

JUNE 11, 2025

There’s also the advanced EMT, an EMT with training in additional concepts and specific ALS skills such as starting IVs, administering a few carefully chosen medications, using advanced airways and other carefully selected skills. Once historically known as “an EMT-Intermediate,” their level of training is in between EMT and paramedic.

AEMT

JEMS

JUNE 23, 2025

“The entire mission of stroke therapy is to restore the blood flow to the brain as soon as possible,” said Alhamza Al-Bayati, associate professor of neurology and neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a physician specializing in stroke. 21—It was just after 2 p.m. on Monday, Sept. on Monday, Sept.

First Responder

JEMS

JULY 15, 2025

Langtry S, Wild J, et al. Available from: [link] Commentary Exclusives Mental Health and Wellness EMS EMT Paramedic Must View Two Killed. If we keep talking honestly, the truth will finally be something we can handle. References 1. Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder in emergency service personnel: a meta-analysis.

Mobile Integrated Health

JEMS

JUNE 26, 2025

The process of becoming an EMT or paramedic is designed to test not just your knowledge, but your decision-making, your stress tolerance, and your ability to apply logic under pressure. 1 I went through paramedic school from 1997 to 1999. Critical thinking and decision-making in paramedic practice: A review of the literature.

Emergency Medical Technician

JEMS

JULY 24, 2025

Rather than uplifting the paramedic profession, this suggestion risks diluting its unique identity, undermining its progress, and bypassing the real issue; a lack of investment in paramedics themselves. Paramedics Own the Prehospital Space; Let’s Invest in Them The future of EMS is not about replacing paramedics—but elevating them.

EMS

JEMS

AUGUST 1, 2025

Tikvesa D, Vogler C, Balen F, et al. Identifying and profiling pre-arrival characteristics of avoidable emergency department visits transported by paramedics: a cohort study using linked prehospital and hospital data. Shenoi RP, Nguyen T, Driscoll C, et al. Tikvesa D, Vogler C, Balen F, et al.

E-9-1-1

JEMS

JUNE 20, 2025

How many paramedics actually read an EKG by folding over the computer interpretation walking through the step-by-step analysis and then matching the diagnosis with the computer. Pratley RE, Kanapka LG, Rickels MR, et al. Yet AI, whether it is called that or not, is now embedded in the cardiac monitors. References 1. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.6928

Mobile Integrated Health

JEMS

JUNE 12, 2025

More importantly, the report gives EMS educators and system leaders a critical roadmap to better prepare EMTs and paramedics for delivering safe, effective and forward-thinking care in an ever-evolving field. Paramedics assessing patients with complex comorbidities in community settings: Results from the CARPE study. Moloney, C.,

E-9-1-1

JEMS

JULY 24, 2025

15 min read Emergency Medical Care Exclusives Patient Care EMS EMT Paramedic Postal Worker Killed in Multi-Vehicle AL Crash A U.S. Patient Care GA County Uses New Traumagel in Bleeding Control Clinical Trial Cobb County Fire & Emergency Services medics are using a new plant-based “trauma gel.”

Mobile Integrated Health

JEMS

JULY 24, 2025

Rather than uplifting the paramedic profession, this suggestion risks diluting its unique identity, undermining its progress, and bypassing the real issue; a lack of investment in paramedics themselves. Paramedics Own the Prehospital Space; Let’s Invest in Them The future of EMS is not about replacing paramedics—but elevating them.

EMS

JEMS

JUNE 13, 2025

For EMTs and paramedics, this growing trend requires a shift in how we recognize and respond to overdose syndromes. As with xylazine, this change requires paramedics and EMTs to adapt their response strategy. Like xylazine, medetomidine is a veterinary alpha-2 adrenergic agonist not approved for human use. What Is Medetomidine?

Naloxone

JEMS

JULY 9, 2025

It is unlikely in the extreme that any given paramedic will ever be involved in such a procedure, to say nothing of the probability of having to perform this extreme procedure. Kampden et al. Unsurprisingly, the use of a Gigli saw is not included in the standard paramedic curriculum. Based on these concepts, Emmerlich et al.

E-9-1-1

ACEP Now

JANUARY 5, 2025

Two trials were published together on this topic, PARAMEDIC-3 and IVIO. References Gibbs KW, Semler MW, Driver BE, et al. Luo Z, Li Y, Li W, et al. Knack SKS, Scott N, Driver BE, et al. Escobar GJ, Liu VX, Schuler A, et al. Gallo RJ, Shieh L, Smith M, et al. Edelson DP, Churpek MM, Carey KA, et al.

ALS

JEMS

JULY 18, 2025

Officers provided her medical aid until paramedics from the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District arrived. EMS Operations News News Feed California Headlines Must View Postal Worker Killed in Multi-Vehicle AL Crash A U.S. When officers arrived, they found the woman bleeding. Visit www.eastbaytimes.com.

Mobile Integrated Health

FOAMfrat

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

One day, I was running a paramedic fly-car and was dispatched for a sick subject withdrawing from alcohol. Historically, those battling addiction are treated poorly by healthcare professionals, which directly inhibits them from seeking or complying with care (Van Boekel et al.,

Paramedic

JEMS

JULY 30, 2025

5 min read EMS Operations News News Feed Headlines Pennsylvania Response Times Shelby County (AL) Invests in New Ambulances to Cut Response Times Shelby County is spending $3.1 million on new ambulances to improve emergency response times.

Ambulance

First Responder Wellness

APRIL 4, 2025

Over a career, a firefighter might pull victims from countless fires or accident scenes; a police officer may witness violence and death regularly; a paramedic may see daily medical crises. A recent meta-analysis found about 26% of first responders screen positive for hazardous alcohol use (Irizar et al.,

First Responder

Broome Docs

DECEMBER 22, 2024

PARAMEDIC 3 randomized 6,000 (but they were supposed to get to 15,000) patients with out of hospital arrest from multiple EMS agencies in the UK to either an IO or IV to start. A Randomized Trial of Drug Route in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. N Engl J Med. 2024 Oct 31:10.1056/NEJMoa2407780. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2407780. Epub ahead of print.

E-9-1-1

JEMS

JUNE 27, 2025

The ALS units, staffed by paramedics, are being downgraded as part of strategy to address chronic staffing shortages and ballooning overtime costs. The ALS units, staffed by paramedics, are being downgraded as part of strategy to address chronic staffing shortages and ballooning overtime costs. Visit WMAR for more.

ALS

JEMS

JULY 18, 2025

Legal Issues News News Feed Arizona Headlines Utah Postal Worker Killed in Multi-Vehicle AL Crash A U.S. 7 min read Legal Issues News News Feed Arizona Headlines Utah Postal Worker Killed in Multi-Vehicle AL Crash A U.S. Postal Service worker was killed in a multi-vehicle crash Wednesday in Northport.

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JEMS

JULY 18, 2025

Postal Service worker was killed in a multi-vehicle crash Wednesday in Northport.

ALS

High Performance EMS

AUGUST 9, 2024

In fact, sending advanced life support (ALS) providers that are in short supply to one of these calls can leave citizens exposed when a critical request is received after that resource is committed. Given the time, a BLS crew can begin life-sustaining measures or conduct an assessment for proper hand-off to the paramedics upon arrival.

BLS

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JANUARY 27, 2024

He is also an assistant medical director for EMS at the Centre for Paramedic Education and Research in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Case: You are an advanced care paramedic dispatched to the scene of a 53-year-old female with chest pain. Fanaroff et al looked at the ACC/AHA guidelines from 2008-2018 [4].

ALS

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JUNE 8, 2024

Reference: Kruse et al. Reference: Kruse et al. It included both medical and paramedical care within these groups. Systematic Review, Quality Assessment, and Synthesis of Guidelines for Emergency Department Care of Transgender and Gender-diverse People Recommendations for Immediate Action to Improve Care.

Emergency Department