JEMS

JULY 17, 2025

EMS Operations News News Feed Headlines Overdose Must View Rush (NY) EMS Service Wins Reprieve, Will Remain Operating Through End of Year After months of heated debate, the Rush Fire Department will continue operating its own emergency medical service at least through the end of the year. © 2025 The Olympian (Olympia, Wash.).

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JEMS

JUNE 16, 2025

In some states, community paramedicine programs are known to violate data collection rules by charting in Epic—but they don’t do so because EHRs capture better data quality than ePCRs or dedicated CP/MIH software. Feit, MBA, MA 10 min read Share To: Judy Faulkner, left, and Jonathon Feit.

Mobile Integrated Health

JEMS

JULY 15, 2025

I’ve worked on children and seniors, overdoses and mass casualties and fires and scenes where the silence hits louder than the sirens. If you’ve worn the patch, you know better. What It Leaves Behind I’ve spent more than three decades in EMS. I’ve seen the best and worst of humanity. I’ve carried all of it, every detail, far beyond the call.

Mobile Integrated Health

JEMS

JUNE 13, 2025

For EMTs and paramedics, this growing trend requires a shift in how we recognize and respond to overdose syndromes. 2 This adulterant increases overdose severity and complicates the clinical picture. Importantly, these overdoses are often incompletely responsive to naloxone, creating confusion and concern among first responders.

Naloxone

JEMS

JUNE 11, 2025

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.

AEMT

JEMS

JUNE 12, 2025

2 Another study found that over 87% of patients seen in community paramedicine programs had multiple chronic diseases, with a high prevalence of mental health needs and medication non-adherence. 3 For EMS educators, this means updating pharmacology content and scenario-based to reflect today’s reality.

E-9-1-1

JEMS

JUNE 25, 2025

Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post/TNS) Nick Coltrain – The Denver Post DENVER — Colorado will use $3 million from the state’s opioid settlement fund to provide the overdose-reversal drug naloxone to local organizations, Attorney General Phil Weiser announced Tuesday. Used appropriately, it can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.

Naloxone

JEMS

JUNE 26, 2025

It’s offering naloxone, an emergency medication used to reverse opioid overdoses, for free. Naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, reverses opioid overdoses by attaching to opioid receptors in the brain and blocking other opioids. 4, 2018, in Philadelphia. 4, 2018, in Philadelphia. 4, 2018, in Philadelphia. (AP

NARCAN

JEMS

JULY 8, 2025

It expands the program to include other time-sensitive emergencies, such as opioid overdoses, uncontrolled bleeding, drowning and other conditions that will lead to cardiac arrest and death unless there is swift intervention, often by a lay person.

Mobile Integrated Health

JEMS

JULY 11, 2025

In a statement Thursday evening, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott’s office said the event remained under investigation and that officials had not yet confirmed what caused the overdoses. The Baltimore Police Department] continues to investigate the scene and surrounding neighborhoods, focusing on the source of the overdose event.

Overdose

JEMS

JUNE 25, 2025

EMS Equipment & Gear News California Headlines More News CO Will Give $3 Million Grant to Boost Naloxone Supply as Data Shows Drop in Overdose Deaths Colorado will use $3 million from the state’s opioid settlement fund to provide the overdose-reversal drug naloxone to local organizations.

Ambulance

JEMS

AUGUST 11, 2025

Mancuso, who carried a calm presence and easy smile to every call, had a way with patients, no matter their age or background — whether it was a trauma event or drug overdose. on Tuesday, Aug. on Tuesday, Aug. The pair would go on to work together on ambulances at several different agencies in Albuquerque and surrounding areas.

Mobile Integrated Health

JEMS

JULY 11, 2025

Shelton/Mississippi Today/KFF Health News/TNS) Grace Zokovitch – Boston Herald Opioid related overdose deaths fell 36% in Massachusetts in 2024, reaching their lowest point since 2013, according to provisional CDC data. The naloxone kits contributed to the reversal of at least 7,500 overdoses in 2024, the department stated.

Overdose

JEMS

JULY 28, 2025

By the door, the keys to specially equipped vans were stored in a lockbox and red backpacks serving as “go bags” were stocked with the overdose-reversing drug naloxone. On a June afternoon, seven crisis responders awaited calls in Sound’s Auburn office, decorated with Pride and Juneteenth posters and superhero figurines.

Mobile Integrated Health

JEMS

JUNE 18, 2025

Demystifying Anaphylaxis: Unveiling the Intricacies for Emergency Responders A Harm-Reduction Approach to Overdoses for EMS Understand Allergies to Quickly Provide Treatment Critical Updates in Assessment & Management of Anaphylaxis She held a press conference last week in California where U.S.

Mobile Integrated Health

JEMS

JULY 13, 2025

9 min read EMS Operations News News Feed Headlines Maryland Mass Casualty Incidents WV Rescue Squads Request Opioid Funds for New Ambulances Officials from the Bluefield Rescue Squad and Princeton Rescue Squad went before the Mercer County Commission Tuesday to inquire about obtaining opioid settlement funds to purchase one new ambulance each.

Mobile Integrated Health

JEMS

JUNE 10, 2025

6 min read News News Feed California Headlines CT Medic Sues Ambulance Company in Case of Co-Worker Who Kidnapped Her Twice A woman who was kidnapped twice by former Bridgeport emergency medical technician Bradley Doyle is suing him, his parents and the ambulance company where they both worked.

Ambulance

JEMS

JUNE 25, 2025

EMS Equipment & Gear News California Headlines More News CO Will Give $3 Million Grant to Boost Naloxone Supply as Data Shows Drop in Overdose Deaths Colorado will use $3 million from the state’s opioid settlement fund to provide the overdose-reversal drug naloxone to local organizations.

Mobile Integrated Health

JEMS

JUNE 25, 2025

2 min read EMS Operations News News Feed Headlines Massachusetts CO Will Give $3 Million Grant to Boost Naloxone Supply as Data Shows Drop in Overdose Deaths Colorado will use $3 million from the state’s opioid settlement fund to provide the overdose-reversal drug naloxone to local organizations.

Mobile Integrated Health

International Journal of Paramedicine

JULY 8, 2024

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) play a crucial role in responding to opioid overdoses. Purpose: Buprenorphine is a lifesaving medication in opioid use disorder (OUD). The pre-hospital use of buprenorphine by EMS can expand access to this important medication.

Emergency Medical Services

International Journal of Paramedicine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

17.41) had higher odds of using Community Care Access Centers; and male participants had lower odds of using telehealth (OR=0.19; CI:0.038, 0.97).

Overdose

JEMS

JUNE 9, 2025

In “Needles to Grave,” I tackle the reality of the opioid crisis, the revolving door of overdose calls, and the emotional toll it takes on responders. The result is Walter’s Creed , a deeply personal collection of stories and lessons — part memoir, part reflection, and part tribute to those who shaped me.

Mobile Integrated Health

JEMS

JUNE 10, 2025

6 min read News News Feed California Headlines CT Medic Sues Ambulance Company in Case of Co-Worker Who Kidnapped Her Twice A woman who was kidnapped twice by former Bridgeport emergency medical technician Bradley Doyle is suing him, his parents and the ambulance company where they both worked.

Ambulance

JEMS

JUNE 10, 2025

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JEMS

JUNE 9, 2025

opioid overdose deaths plummeted 41% in 2024, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , and fatal overdoses of all kinds fell 27%. In Minnesota, preliminary data from the Minnesota Department of Health showed an 8% drop in overall overdose deaths from 2022 to 2023. But meth “has never gone away,” Mattei said.

Mobile Integrated Health

JEMS

JUNE 26, 2025

A 9-month-old infant is in a Charlotte-area hospital after an apparent drug overdose and injuries consistent with a dog bite,” the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. It happened in the Gamewell area near Lenoir and resulted in the child’s mother being arrested Tuesday, June 24, Caldwell County jail records show. “A

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