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International Prehospital Medicine Institute Literature Review, July 2025

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Individual agencies are dispatched via a common communications center using commercially available Emergency Medical Dispatch software. Lift assist” is not used as a dispatch code or reason. This suburban, combined ALS and BLS EMS system responds to greater than 120,000 combined requests for service a year.

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The Widely Varying Role of the Advanced EMT in Modern EMS

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In the EMD (emergency medical dispatch) world, they often count as BLS.” EMS Operations News News Feed Florida Headlines More News 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.