I consider the IHI National Forum one of the best conferences in the country, and as usual this year’s forum exceeded my expectations. I live tweeted every session I attended and this post serves as a summary of those resources presented during the presentations. You can see the entire Twitter summary curated by Symplur here, and my summary of the 2015 forum here. EMS Note: There was one … Continue reading IHI National Forum 2016
This press release has also been posted to EMS World and EMS1. The New Orleans Emergency Medical Services Foundation (The Foundation) donated two technical rope rescue kits to New Orleans Emergency Medical Services (NOEMS) after receiving a grant from Monsanto Fund. The $5,000 grant has allowed NOEMS to replace their outdated technical rope rescue gear with state-of-the-art Roco Rescue gear, specifically two main line kits and … Continue reading NOEMS Technical Rope Rescue Kits
Five days after Donald Trump became President-Elect a policy journalist tweeted this: I saw it and realized that, as someone with a decent understanding of healthcare policy, I was likely one of very few individuals to be living with the direct consequences of “Repeal and Replace” who could also understand the system level politics at play. This post serves as a recounting of sorts. Regardless of … Continue reading Living with Obamacare – Post 2016
The McSwain EMS Trauma Conference is a one-day symposium covering the treatment prehospital providers render to a range of traumatic injuries. It is held every year in New Orleans and named for Dr. Norman McSwain, the pioneering trauma surgeon and lifelong advocate for EMS. While the sessions covered a variety of topics across prehospital trauma, at this year’s event I took special interest in two … Continue reading McSwain EMS Trauma Conference
An article on a statewide MIH program in Florida is making the rounds within EMS trade journals. EMS World and JEMS have both already covered it. I was asked by EMS1‘s Editor-in-Chief to cover it, but given a variety of misgivings that I had about the integrity of the article it was decided to let sleeping dogs lie. But that’s why I started my own website. Article … Continue reading The paradox of potentially predatory publications
EMS World Expo is put on by EMS World every October and is “North America’s largest EMS conference and trade show, hosted in partnership with NAEMT, which brought over 5,100 EMS professionals together in New Orleans.” While I spent the majority of my time volunteering with The New Orleans EMS Foundation, I was asked to cover three sessions for EMS World: Implementing Evidence-Based Learning in Prehospital … Continue reading EMS World Expo 2016
What started as a severe cold morphed into an allergic reaction requiring heavy antihistamines, the kind that interfered with my ability to stay awake, let alone use the full capacity of my brain. This has resulted in two weeks of nothing. Who knew two weeks of nothing could remind you what matters. As a doctoral student I’m in the unique position of having multiple sources of … Continue reading Two weeks of nothing
Northwell Health (N.Y.) has published preliminary results of the impact their community paramedicine program had within an advanced illness management program. “Providing Acute Care at Home: Community Paramedics Enhance an Advanced Illness Management Program — Preliminary Data” was published in the Journal of American Geriatric Society on August 30, 2016. Of the 1,602 patients enrolled in advanced illness management, see the workflow diagram, over the … Continue reading Community paramedicine program proves potential value
During the week in mid-August that saw seven trillion gallons of rain fall on southern Louisiana, the Louisiana Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue Team (LATF-1) received over half a dozen requests for aid or information via Facebook Messenger. Given that more than 20,000 people were rescued from rising flood waters over the course of that same week, half a dozen requests may seem like a drop … Continue reading How my USAR team used Facebook during the Louisiana Flooding
This press release was featured on EMS World, JEMS, and EMS1. It was also later picked up by Fox 8 News in New Orleans for a video feature. ~~~~~~ NEW ORLEANS, LA: The New Orleans Emergency Medical Services Foundation (The Foundation) donated six active shooter kits to New Orleans Emergency Medical Services (NOEMS) after receiving a grant from Hermes Beyond the Parade (Hermes BTP). The … Continue reading NOEMS Active Shooter Kits
Flirting with Adrenaline 