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HOME Team Helps San Francisco Fight Chronic Public Inebriates Problem
The city of San Francisco is evaluating a program that pairs paramedics with social workers in an attempt to place homeless or marginally housed inebriates in treatment programs. An analysis of city records shows that 362 individuals-most of them drunk and homeless or marginally housed-have been picked up repeatedly by paramedics. These 362 people were picked up at least 3,869 times between March 2004 and August 2005, at a potential cost of $11.6 million. | |
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NAEMT Foundation's EMS & Rescuer Relief Fund Plans Fund Drive to Help Providers in Hurricane Areas
"Many EMS professionals from the areas affected by this year's hurricanes are living and working amid great loss," said Jim Allen, the administrator of NAEMT's EMS & Rescuer Relief Fund. NAEMT has begun a holiday fund-raising campaign to help EMTs and paramedics in parts of the U.S. ravaged by the hurricanes. | |
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MERGINET Editorial: The Giving Must Continue
Do something different during the coming holidays. Remember your colleagues. EMS workers in the hurricane-affected areas are still on the job and still in need. Many have no homes to go to, and are missing loved ones who have evacuated to places where children can attend school and spouses can find jobs. | |
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Survey Results: Respondents Willing To Support PAC When Merginet readers were asked: Would you be willing to financially support a Political Action Committee formed to promote a stronger voice for EMS in the federal government? 85 percent said "Yes." Later this month, Merginet will bring you information on how the idea of a PAC may soon become a reality. | |
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Do the National EMS Associations Speak for You? EMS is represented nationally by a number of EMS associations. Do you trust these associations to speak for you? Take the Merginet Poll | |
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Ventilation Patterns following RSI by Paramedics in TBI
The San Diego RSI researchers have managed to get another paper published from their same set of data from their 2002 study. This paper looks at ventilatory patterns of paramedics for patients who have received RSI for a traumatic brain injury. | |
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Cordless Screwdriver Valuable for Football Helmet Face Mask Removal
EMS organizations with football or other helmeted sport athletic competition in their response areas may want to include a cordless screwdriver in their list of necessary equipment. Recent research suggests unscrewing a face mask causes less head movement and provides quicker access to an injured player's airway than cutting away a face mask with cutting tools. | |
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Rescuers at Risk for Trench Foot
Rescuers and others working in the floodwaters leftover from the recent hurricanes are at risk for developing a condition known as trench foot or immersion foot. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued the following information to assist podiatrists and other healthcare professionals in recognizing and treating this condition. | |
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Patient Simulators Getting Better and Better
Human patient simulators are becoming more sophisticated and are now an important part of modern EMS education. But, are they effective? Researchers at the University of Calgary studied the use of mannequins to teach intubation to paramedic students and concluded that students trained on a human simulator had equivalent success and complication rates when compared to students trained in the OR. | |
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