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JEMS | Subscribe to eNews | eNews Archive | Share this with a Friend July 19, 2005     This Week's Highlights Features The Next Generation By David S. Becker, MA, EMT-P Better by Air? First Full-Service Freestanding ED in North Carolina Opens Advisory: Fentanyl Overdoses New Delivery: Care Ambulance Service JEMS Poll Results: Federal Recognition Featured EMS Tip: All Thumbs Words That Should Be in the EMS Dictionary But Aren't More Save the Date for EMS Today 2006! EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION! More of what you asked for at the FireRescue Magazine Conference and Expo! Subscribe to JEMS and enter to win Thorogood Boots! Going to school? JEMS Educational Award Programs can help! Announcements New Release: Emergency! on DVD Emergency Notification Grant Program Abstracts for presentation and publication for 2006 are now being accepted by the Prehospital Care Research Forum. Special Career Opportunity Part-Time Opportunity with no lifting. For more details go to: http://jems.com/careerpath/#Connecticut Features The Next Generation By David S. Becker, MA, EMT-P http://www.jems.com/jems/exclus05/e0719a.html Some of you may dream about winning the lottery and immediately retiring to your own private island; others, perhaps, can’t imagine ever leaving EMS. But either way, retirement is an eventual reality. And for managers, it’s something to plan for in advance to ensure a smooth leadership transition. For details click here. Better by Air? http://www.jems.com/jems/exclus05/e0719b.html A new study of more than 10,000 head-injury patients finds that those with more severe injuries who were transported by air had an increased chance of survival and better outcomes than those transported by ground. For details click here. First Full-Service Freestanding ED in North Carolina Opens http://www.jems.com/jems/exclus05/e0719c.html In response to an increasing need for health care in northern Wake County, N.C., WakeMed Health & Hospitals opened the state’s first freestanding, full service emergency department last week. For details, click here. Advisory: Fentanyl Overdoses The FDA recently issued a public health advisory on the reports of death and other serious adverse effects from overdoses of fentanyl in patients using fentanyl transdermal patches, both the brand name product Duragesic and the generic product. The advisory reminds health-care providers to be cautious when using this potent analgesic. Read the MedWatch safety summary, including links to the Public Health Advisory, Healthcare Professional and Patient Information Sheets, and the Drug Information Page at www.fda.gov/medwatch/SAFETY/2005/safety05.htm#Fentanyl. For more information on fentanyl patch abuse, read “Drug Abusers OD on Fentanyl Patches” at www.jems.com/jems/exclus04/e0404h.html. New Delivery: Care Ambulance Service http://www.jems.com/jems/exclus05/e0719d.html Check out this New Delivery from Care Ambulance Service. For details and images, click here. To send us a description and photo of your new delivery, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]. JEMS Poll Results: Federal Recognition http://www.jems.com/jems/exclus05/e0719e.html With the July 13 announcement by Secretary Michael Chertoff of a six-point agenda for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that includes the creation of a new Chief Medical Officer position, it appears that Capitol Hill is listening. (To read more about the agenda and what it means for EMS, read Priority Traffic in the upcoming August JEMS.) Here’s what you had to say last month in the JEMS Web Poll about the topic of federal recognition for EMS. For poll results, click here. Featured EMS Tip: All Thumbs http://www.jems.com/jems/emstips.html This week's EMS Tip, provided by reader Brad Robinson, is a simple trick to keep your unconscious patient out of harm’s way. 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: Spinalize and Oxygenarian. Click here for the definitions. Announcements > New Release: Emergency! on DVD Remember Johnny Gage and Roy DeSoto? Well, they’re making a comeback. On August 23, the first season of Emergency! will be available in a two-DVD set. Plus, Randolph Mantooth will autograph the cover of each set purchased from the County of Los Angeles Fire Museum’s Third Alarm Fire Shop, and proceeds will go toward maintenance of Squad 51. Preorder your set now at www.ThirdAlarmFireShop.com. > Emergency Notification Grant Program DCC (Dialogic Communications Corporation), the leading provider of emergency notification technology, announced it will begin accepting applications for its 2005 Grant Program on July 1, 2005. Click here for more details.   > Abstracts for presentation and publication for 2006 are now being accepted by the Prehospital Care Research Forum. Clinical, systems, management, or personnel categories will be presented at the 24th Annual EMS Today Conference & Exhibition, March 21-25, 2006 in Baltimore, Maryland. Submission deadline for EMS Today: October 28, 2005. Educational abstracts will be presented at the 11th Annual National Association of EMS Educators Conference, September 6 - 11, 2006 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Submission deadline for NAEMSE Conference: March 31, 2006. For more information, visit the EMS Today Web site. Awards Programs Going to school? JEMS Educational Award Programs can help! 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. Conferences   For EMS Today 2005 Highlights and Photos, click here! November 9-13, 2005 Las Vegas Convention Center Las Vegas, Nevada Our show has three things you asked for: Education, Education, Education With individually structured training 'academies' taught by noted EMS leaders, you'll get what you need from sessions and speakers. Don't miss these EMS experts: Doug Garretson, BA, NREMT-P Ed Racht, MD Gregg Lord, BA, NREMT-P Don't Wait! Register Today! 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