Just about everyone in EMS understands the importance of recruiting and retaining paramedics and EMTs. Employees move on or retire, volunteers come an...
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Two years ago, Virginia Beach’s Department of Emergency Medical Services was having difficulty finding enough volunteers. Many people in the region we...
Editor’s note: Skip Kirkwood takes the reins as our guest columnist for this issue. As I write this, 2011 is drawing to a close and I am contemplatin...
Fires may be dangerous, but a study of 650 firefighters, paramedics, engineers, inspectors and battalion chiefs from the Tucson Fire Department found ...
Widely considered a weak link in personal protective equipment, the polycarbonate facepiece lens on self-contained breathing apparatus was put through...
The BIG SIX Leadership Competencies
Adapting to the changing needs of health care and our communities
One leader’s wishes for EMS in 2012
The main source of injuries for EMS providers? It’s not what you think
Progress being made on firefighter cancer study
Sabina Braithwaite, M.D., on what EMS needs to thrive
Senate on board with volunteer responder benefits
New tool available to identify poor teamwork
Finding your true north
Amid the fear and fighting, a cause for hope