Friday, July 4, 2008
In search of a cure
Is EMS integration working in today’s fire departments? In this exclusive FIRE CHIEF roundtable, four EMS experts share their thoughts on patient care, personnel shortage and quality of service....
Diagnosing your department's EMS
Mike Chiaramonte
Look at time constraints and community expectations before you commit to providing life support and patient transportation services....
Senators announce legislation to encourage tax relief for volunteer firefighters and EMS responders
National Volunteer Fire Council
Sens. Chris Dodd, Joseph I. Lieberman and Cong. John B. Larson announced on Sept. 30 the introduction of legislation that would prevent the Internal Revenue...
Firefighters and EMS personnel to get tax break in New York county
National Volunteer Fire Service
Volunteer firefighters and ambulance corps members who live and own property in Putnam County, New York, are now eligible for a property tax exemption...
EMS comes in small packages
Chris Cavette, Senior Editor
If your department is planning to add medical response to its mission but can’t afford to buy a full-fledged ambulance fleet or spare a pumper for every non-fire call, you may want to look into compact EMS vehicles....
FCC auditing two-way fire, EMS radio systems
Fire Chief staff
The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau currently is conducting an audit of the construction and operational status...
FCC auditing two-way fire, EMS radio systems
The Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau currently is conducting an audit of the construction and operational status...
Front-end alignment for your EMS system
Bruce Evans
Preventive education can save trauma and money in your department and your community....
Rural EMS legislation introduced in Senate
Colin A. Campbell
Sen. Kent Conrad (N.D.) has introduced a bill to fund what he calls high-quality emergency medical services for people living in rural states, and to...
Study questions EMS intubation of children
Douglas Page
Although bag-valve-mask ventilation and endotracheal intubation are both widely used by EMS personnel when caring for critically ill or injured children...
Emergency transport becomes child's play
Douglas Page
A new, one-of-a-kind ambulance is helping to make EMS transport a little less threatening, at least for kids being rushed to the University of Missouri Children's Hospital in Columbia.
...Incident reporting system needs to include EMS
Jack J. Krakeel
Not only are we entrenched with the notion that reporting every facet of minutiae is essential, we often find that our work ends up lost in another agency's bureaucracy.
Measures for medics
Terry L. Schenk
Benchmarking for fire-based ems organizations means more than proving who responds the fastest. To compete against private-sector providers, you need...
code blue: Paging paramedics
Douglas Page
The chronic shortage of emergency nurses has inspired the idea of staffing crowded hospital emergency departments with paramedics. Not everybody likes...
EMS advocate
Charles Rule
James O. Page Jim Page is widely recognized as the most influential proponent of ems delivered by fire departments. After working as a private ambulance...
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