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International Prehospital Medicine Institute Literature Review, July 2025

JEMS

This suburban, combined ALS and BLS EMS system responds to greater than 120,000 combined requests for service a year. Of the groups with positive findings, Sp02 increased on average from 89.6% Individual agencies are dispatched via a common communications center using commercially available Emergency Medical Dispatch software.

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How to Become an EMT in New Jersey

Paramedic Training Spot

The introduction of Narcan via intranasal administration was a game changer for those agencies in areas where opiates ran rampant. Before BLS, or Basic Life Support, was able to administer Narcan, agencies would have to wait for a MICP unit to arrive on scene to administer the lifesaving medication.

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