JEMS

JULY 7, 2025

This suburban, combined ALS and BLS EMS system responds to greater than 120,000 combined requests for service a year. Individual agencies are dispatched via a common communications center using commercially available Emergency Medical Dispatch software.

E-9-1-1

JEMS

JUNE 11, 2025

And emergency medical service organizations are structured accordingly, right? 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.

AEMT

Peter Canning

JUNE 25, 2025

If they’re lethargic and hard to arouse, but still breathing effectively, it’s not an overdose. Boston paramedic This is a quote I included in a presentation I put together for the state of Connecticut back in 2014 when we designed a curriculum to teach BLS providers how to use naloxone. Fatal overdoses are easy to track.

Overdose

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MAY 21, 2017

Do heroin overdose patients require observation after receiving naloxone? Guest Skeptic: Dr. Richard Hamilton (@RJHamiltonMD) is Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. Do heroin overdose patients require observation after receiving naloxone? Clinical Toxicology 2017.

Naloxone

Paramedic Training Spot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Brief History of EMS in New Jersey New Jersey has seen Emergency Medical Services since the 1920’s, and was one of the first states to have this volunteer service. In fact, in 1927, the town of Belmar was one of the the first established volunteer ambulance services in the nation.

EMT