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May 17, 2005     This Week's Highlights Features Happy EMS Week! EMS Baloney Detection Kit By Bryan Bledsoe, DO, FACEP Terrorism Preparedness Grants to be Based on Risk Recall: MRL Inc. Issues Voluntary Recall of AED20 New VP at Demers By Ann-Marie Lindstrom New Delivery: EMSA Gets an Overhaul Featured EMS Tip: Mark a Pedal Pulse Words That Should Be in the EMS Dictionary But Aren't More Save the Date for EMS Today 2006! New Sessions Announced! Don't Miss These EMS Educational Sessions at FireRescue Magazine Conference & Expo Free Issues of JEMS at FIRE EXPO! Subscribe to JEMS and enter to win a Digital Camera Awards Programs The JEMS/Elsevier Nursing Scholarship Submit Your Organization's Grant or Scholarship Info Special Career Opportunity Increased Pay-Rates for In-Bound Medics! Lifeline Ambulance, Prescott, AZ is seeking motivated, career oriented Paramedics. Click here for more information. Features Happy EMS Week! May 15 - 21, 2005 http://www.jems.com/jems/exclus05/e0517a.html To all the devoted and selfless EMS personnel, we celebrate your commitment to providing superior prehospital care. Click here and see what the rest of the EMS community is doing to honor their own and promote health and safety in their service areas. For details, click here. EMS Baloney Detection Kit By Bryan Bledsoe, DO, FACEP http://www.jems.com/jems/exclus05/e0517b.html We're always looking for the next big thing in EMS devices and equipment. And no one denies the value of pulse oximetry, AEDs and numerous other life-saving technology. But what separates the "science from the pseudoscience," as contributor Bryan Bledsoe puts it? His solution: The EMS Baloney Detection Kit. To read his commentary, click here. Terrorism Preparedness Grants to be Based on Risk http://www.jems.com/jems/exclus05/e0517c.html The U.S. House of Representatives recently approved one of the main recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, calling for homeland security funds to be allocated on the basis of risk. For details, click here. Recall: MRL Inc. Issues Voluntary Recall of AED20 http://www.jems.com/jems/exclus05/e0517d.html MRL Inc., a Welch Allyn Company, recently announced a voluntary worldwide recall of its AED20 AEDs due to reported incidents of a displayed “Defib Comm” error message and failure of devices to analyze patients’ ECGs and deliver the appropriate therapy. For details, click here. New VP at Demers By Ann-Marie Lindstrom http://www.jems.com/jems/exclus05/e0517e.html Demers Ambulances of Quebec, Canada, recently appointed Ben Lafortune as vice president of sales and marketing. For details, click here. New Delivery: EMSA Gets an Overhaul http://www.jems.com/jems/exclus05/e0517f.html Midway through the year, Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) in Oklahoma is ringing in the new—ambulances, that is. It recently showed the first of its redesigned fleet. For details and a picture of the new rig, click here. Featured EMS Tip: Mark a Pedal Pulse http://www.jems.com/jems/emstips.html This week's EMS Tip, provided by reader Brad Robinson, EMT-I,  is right on target for helping you assess pedal pulses. Click here for the tip. Words That Should Be in the EMS Dictionary But Aren't http://www.jems.com/jems/emswords.html Featured this week: Infarctfurgnugen and Adminisphere. Click here for the definitions. Awards Programs JEMS wants to help you achieve your dreams! The JEMS/Elsevier Nursing Scholarship provides one scholarship to prehospital personnel (EMT or EMT-Paramedic) who want to pursue a nursing degree. The winner will receive $5,000 to pursue a nursing degree, as well as a one year ENA membership. For more information about the 2005 scholarship, please visit www.ena.org/foundation/grants or call the Foundation at: 800-900-9659 ext. 4100. Does your organization offer a special grant or scholarship for EMS personnel? JEMS would like to know about it! Click here to submit your information. Conferences   For EMS Today 2005 Highlights and Photos, click here! Attending Fire Expo in Harrisburg, PA? Visit Jems Communications in Booth #507 for FREE issues of the latest JEMS! Incorporating November 9-13, 2005 Las Vegas Convention Center Las Vegas, Nevada New Sessions Announced! Don't miss these exciting educational sessions specifically designed for EMS providers in the fire service: The Medicine of Emergency Communications Speaker: Ed Racht, MD EMS Financing for the Future of Fire Based Systems Speaker: Gregg Lord, BA, NREMT-P Also, be sure to visit the EMS pavilion in the exhibit hall for all of the latest and greatest EMS products and services! For more information please click here. 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