Identifying an Acute Coronary Syndrome: Part 1
There are more than eight million cardiac calls that arrive to the hospital in the United States each year. Nearly one million of the cases may have an acute coronary syndrome. About a third of those cases will have a myocardial infarction. Here’s a refresher on how we as EMS providers can play a role in saving lives. Read the original JEMS manuscript here! Previous: Identify the ECG rhythm before you use adenosine, not the other way around. The post Identifying an Acute Coronary Syndrome: Part 1 appeared first on JEMS. (Source: JEMS Special Topics)
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 11, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Cardiac & Resuscitation Patient Care Patient Care Videos Training Videos Cardiac Arrest Master Your Medics Source Type: news

Ambulance Wait Times of 17 Hours Reported in LA County
Soumya Karlamangla, Hayley Smith, Rong-Gong Lin II Los Angeles Times (MCT) At a hospital near South Los Angeles, doctors debate whether an elderly patient should be hooked to one of the few remaining ventilators. Meanwhile, nurses at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood fear they are treating too many patients to provide them all with the best care. And for emergency medical technicians, racing the sick to hospitals has become an obstacle course, with not enough beds for the hundreds of patients in need. Once an ambulance that has responded to a 911 call finds a hospital, it...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 11, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Coronavirus News News Feed Ambulance California EMS Paramedic Source Type: news

Officials Seek ID for Pickup Truck Driver They Say Hit CT Ambulance
Leah Brennan Connecticut Post, Bridgeport (MCT) WALLINGFORD — Officials are trying to find out who was driving a pickup truck that hit an ambulance near North Plains Industrial Road Saturday, according to a news release. While the ambulance sustained heavy damage and was towed from the scene after the 8:20 p.m. crash, neither of the two people inside — neither of whom were patients — was harmed, police said. The ambulance was heading north on North Plains Industrial Road and making a left turn into a parking lot when it was hit, police said. “It was determined that the op...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 11, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Ambulances & Vehicle Ops News News Feed Source Type: news

Project Mayday: Lisa Bertaccini, LCSW
Get every episode by subscribing to Project Mayday using Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts. Why did you choose to be a first responder? Is there a link between the impact of childhood trauma, or does a generational family history of career choices influence a person’s career choice? Hear a different perspective from a military family life consultant from the Department of Defense on her experience with her psychological perspective on how to maintain mental wellness, the affects of PTSD on the family and how to do a mental health check on yourself. Previous: Hear the story of the private industry ...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 11, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Podcasts Project Mayday Source Type: news

Vaccine Rollout Confirms Public Health Officials ’ Warnings
By MICHELLE R. SMITH and CANDICE CHOI Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Public health officials sounded the alarm for months, complaining that they did not have enough support or money to get COVID-19 vaccines quickly into arms. Now the slower-than-expected start to the largest vaccination effort in U.S. history is proving them right. As they work to ramp up the shots, state and local public health departments across the U.S. cite a variety of obstacles, most notably a lack of leadership from the federal government. Many officials worry that they are losing precious time at the height of the pandemic, and th...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 11, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Coronavirus Medicine Source Type: news

Volunteer Health Corps in CA Dwindles
FILE— In this April 18, 2020 file photo Robert Reynolds, of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, moves a bed into position as work is performed to turn Sleep Train Arena into a 400-bed emergency field hospital to help deal with the coronavirus outbreak, in Sacramento, Calif. The state has reopened the arena, which had handled only nine patients over 10 weeks, and other facilities to help handle a new surge of coronavirus patients, but is using little more than a handful of volunteers from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California Health Corps who originally helped staff the facility. (AP Photo/Rich Pedro...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 11, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Coronavirus California Source Type: news

Too Hot to Handle: Prehospital Stabilization of the Burn Patient
Delivered in a logical and pragmatic format, this presentation delivers case studies to highlight the role of EMS in the stabilization of the burn patient including discussion of initial triage, fluid resuscitation, intubation decisions, inhalation injuries and treatment interventions. Emergent care and stabilization of the patient with a thermal injury can determine both short-term and long-term outcomes, including survivability. Vivid photographs and interactive slides complement this session. The post Too Hot to Handle: Prehospital Stabilization of the Burn Patient appeared first on JEMS. (Source: JEMS Special Topics)
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 11, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Best Practices Patient Care Training Webcasts Burn Injuries EMS Paramedic Transport Source Type: news

A Look Inside How the Wilmington (NC) Fire Department Navigated the Pandemic
Jonathan Haynes Star-News, Wilmington, N.C. (MCT) The Wilmington Fire Department reported fewer calls after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. “We saw a decrease in call volume that correlated with the stay home orders and COVID 19,” said Rebekah Thurston, Wilmington Fire Department spokeswoman. She added that fire department EMS were not exposed to the potential increase in health-related calls due to a county arrangement. “We did not see a rise in EMS calls like we thought we may since, with the pandemic, there would likely be more health crises happening,” she...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 10, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Coronavirus News News Feed Fire EMS North Carolina Source Type: news

NC Man to Help Mom, Emergency Responders after Lottery Win
Joe Marusak The Charlotte Observer (MCT) A Mooresville man will help his mom and local emergency responders after he bought a scratch-off ticket at a Harris Teeter in Davidson and scored a $100,000 prize, N.C. lottery officials said Friday. Matthew Hehs stopped at the store on Peninsula Drive at Lake Norman for a Monster energy drink, a salad and some lottery tickets before a late night of work, according to a lottery news release. Hehs works in industrial sales. “I scratched the first one, and nothing,” Hehs told lottery officials when he claimed his prize at lottery h...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 9, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: News News Feed EMS North Carolina Police Source Type: news

Sanford (FL) Firefighter-Paramedic on Leave after Taking Part in Siege on Capitol
#UPDATE from #Sanford Mayor Art Woodruff in regards to city Firefighter Andrew Williams: “The City of Sanford is aware of the situation involving Sanford Firefighter/Paramedic Andrew Williams. At this time, we are following the investigative process… pic.twitter.com/oZ5HNLshtA— Curtis McCloud (@CurtisNews13) January 7, 2021 Madeleine Marr The Miami Herald (MCT) Another Trump supporter who was photographed attacking the U.S. Capitol in Washington Wednesday has been identified, WESH news first reported. He’s a Central Florida firefighter and paramedic named Andrew Wi...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 8, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: News News Feed Florida Protest Washington Source Type: news

Sacramento (CA) Firefighters Get Inoculated
Tony Bizjak The Sacramento Bee (MCT) Sacramento’s COVID-19 vaccine program took a notable step forward this week, expanding to include shots for thousands of firefighters and paramedics, the emergency first-responders who treat and transport the most seriously ill COVID-19 patients. The new group represents the third major at-risk cohort being offered access to the shots, following several weeks of shots for hospital workers, including doctors and nurses, and more recently, the first inoculations for residents and staffers of skilled nursing facilities. Faced with delays in the first weeks, health offi...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 8, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Coronavirus News News Feed California Medicine Source Type: news

FL Doctors Make Breakthrough Using Stem Cells to Treat Severe COVID Cases
According to a report from CBS4, doctors in South Florida say an experimental treatment involving stem cells has been successful in treating severe cases of COVID. The study, which took place at Jackson Memorial Hospital and the University Miami Tower, involved many patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The groundbreaking treatment, using stem cells from a baby’s umbilical cord, was shown to safely reduce the risk of death and increase the speed of recovery time faster for some of the study’s most ill patients. The FDA approved the trial. In a double-blind study involving 24 patients with ...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 8, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Coronavirus News Source Type: news

COVID Deaths in Los Angeles County for Single Day Equal to Homicide Deaths for Full Year
Jessica Schladebeck New York Daily News (MCT) The number of Los Angeles County residents killed by coronavirus in a single day has risen to the same amount of homicide deaths the city faced over the course of an entire year. “Yesterday we had 259 deaths, that’s one more than all the homicides in 2019 in L.A. city combined,” Mayor Eric Garcetti told reporters during a press conference on Thursday. “In a single day, equal to a year of homicides.” The near-record number was reported on Wednesday amid a devastating spike in COVID-19 cases ripping across the region, where hospital...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 8, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Coronavirus News News Feed California Source Type: news

Siouxland District Health (IA) Vaccinates County ’s Rural EMS Providers
Nick Hytrek Sioux City Journal, Iowa (MCT) CLIMBING HILL, Iowa. — Some of rural Woodbury County’s first responders took part Wednesday in the Siouxland District Health Department’s first COVID-19 vaccination clinic. About 100 paramedics and EMTs who serve towns outside of Sioux City received their first dose of the vaccine at the Woodbury County Emergency Services building. Jerry Kelley was one of the first, and said he had mixed feelings about the vaccine. “I know there are a lot of rumors going around, there may be side effects to them,” said Kelle...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 8, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Coronavirus News News Feed EMT Iowa Paramedic Source Type: news

Mille Lacs County (MN) Paramedic Collapses and Dies While Answering Call
Tim Harlow Star Tribune (MCT) A central Minnesota paramedic collapsed and died Wednesday night while on duty. Toby Rowan had just finished responding to a medical call for the Mille Lacs Health System in Onamia and was still on the scene when he collapsed, according to a statement from the Mille Lacs County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff’s deputies and other paramedics who had responded to the call attempted to revive Rowan, but were unsuccessful. The patient who Rowan was trying to save also died, the sheriff’s office said. Rowan had worked for the&...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 8, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: News News Feed LODD Minnesota Paramedic Source Type: news