Colleagues and friends will hold a benefit chili dinner and auction for Brian “Boudreaux” Coffman, who is battling acute myeloid leukemia
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Monthly Archives: December 2017
Applying the diffusion of innovation theory to MIH-CP and EMS
Every EMS agency adopts innovations at a different pace; how has yours deployed community paramedicine?
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Police chief credits first responders with saving his life
Paramedics said responders’ actions kept Chief Al Buck’s blood flowing until he could receive hospital treatment
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Girl, 5, dies after school bus crashes into tree in Ga.
A man who was driving nearby called 911 and had the children gather at his pickup truck; officials said 21 children were taken to the hospital
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App warns users when drugs are laced with fentanyl
Bad Batch Alert is an anonymous texting service that uses data to track fentanyl overdose hotspots and points users in the direction of harm reduction services
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Witnesses: Paramedics thought dying good Samaritan was ‘acting’
A fatal shooting prompted an investigation into the EMS agency after witnesses said paramedics did not take the patient seriously
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Maine opioid task force ready to deliver recommendations
The recommendations will focus on law enforcement, prevention and harm reduction, and treatment and recovery
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Body cam shows officer performing CPR to save newborn baby
Officer William Eng raced up three flights of stairs to perform CPR on the unresponsive 29-day-old baby
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San Francisco aims to decrease 911 'butt dials'
Officials said around 30 percent of all San Francisco 911 calls are accidental, and dispatchers spent about 5,000 hours calling people back in 2016
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EMT saves 8-year-old boy stuck in gun safe
Elizabeth Poff arrived at a gun store and found the boy locked in the safe with no one at the store able to open it
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