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Communicating with Pediatric Patients in Crisis

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You arrive, exit the ambulance, and enter a residence where you find a school aged child in the corner of their bedroom experiencing an obvious behavioral health crisis. The time traveling to the scene is filled with anxiety and a racing mind trying to recall your pediatric protocols, including drug doses and equipment sizes.

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Grand Blanc Township (MI) Weighs Using Police, Firefighters as EMS Responders

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This equipment includes stethoscopes, blood pressure cuffs, bandages, glucose, and Narcan. EMS Operations News News Feed Headlines New Jersey Audit Criticizes CT Volunteer Ambulance Company A recent audit has discovered financial problems within the Westbrook Volunteer Ambulance Association.

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International Prehospital Medicine Institute Literature Review, July 2025

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This was a retrospective study from the London Air Ambulance (LAA) service for the 21-year period from 1999-2019. The London Trauma System serves over 10 million people and is a regional network consisting of the LAA, the London Ambulance Service (LAS), 4 major trauma centers, and 22 smaller trauma units.

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WA Firefighter Uses Nalaxone to Save Puppy Exposed to Fentanyl

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It’s not every day we use Narcan on a four-legged patient — but our teams are ready for just about anything,” the post says. Lacey Fire District 3 shared photos of the puppy on its Facebook page Tuesday afternoon.

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How Drones Are Transforming EMS Logistics and Healthcare Delivery

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Their Guardian system can deliver critical emergency supplies—Narcan, epinephrine, blood products, AEDs—direct to incident scenes faster than ground crews can arrive. This capability can mean the difference between life and death in overdose, allergic reaction, or trauma incidents.

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We Don’t Need More Paramedics—We Need Fewer Calls

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6 Changing Public Expectations The widespread public need for immediate ambulance response to all calls establishes an unsustainable system which generates counterproductive effects. Imagine every high school student leaving with CPR, Narcan, and basic triage knowledge. 7 This isn’t a staffing problem. It’s a utilization problem.

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GA County Launches Narcan Vending Machine

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Naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, reverses opioid overdoses by attaching to opioid receptors in the brain and blocking other opioids. Newton County accounted for 173 of those incidents and Narcan was administered in 65% of those cases in Newton. “We 4, 2018, in Philadelphia. 4, 2018, in Philadelphia.