Prizm technology features a formulated dye that “fine-tunes” colors in order to heighten the contrast between targets and surrounding objects
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Monthly Archives: August 2015
3 firefighters killed by Wash. wildfire after vehicle crash
County Sheriff confirmed the deaths in a wildfire near Twisp, but was not releasing further details
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Creative ways to fund EMS innovations
Look to other health care stakeholders and neighboring agencies to fund performance measurement and mobile integrated health care initiatives
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Patient data sharing in the cloud: Is your agency at risk?
A Mass. hospital was fined $218,400 for HIPAA violations stemming from use of an internet document sharing application
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EMS leaders must treat employees equitably, not equally
If you treat everyone equally, no one will feel the need to go above and beyond because they don’t feel their actions are recognized or rewarded
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Boy, 5, calls 911 after car crash kills mom, sister
The boy told a dispatcher his mother and sister were dead and he didn’t know where he was; police found the vehicle because he honked the horn
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Medics' decision to stop resuscitation of Minn. woman under investigation
Six personnel from Maplewood FD are on leave after granting request of woman’s husband and power of attorney to halt resuscitation
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Still coping after my sister’s homicide
The first 24 hours back on the ambulance went well until I was asked to translate to a family that a 19-year-old boy was declared brain dead
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Patient restraint: Protect yourself from the predictable fallout of public misperception
Justifiable and properly executed patient restraint, within protocol guidelines, never looks good to the lay public
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5 observations from EMS educator annual meeting
Excellent networking, education sessions and music highlights of 20th annual conference for a founding member of NAEMSE
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