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| EMS, FIRE RESCUE, DISASTER MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SINCE 1998 | | | |
March 2010 | Vol. 13 No. 3
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BP INTERVIEW: Q&A with David Nelson
At the Ambulance Service Manager’s (ASM) certificate program in Kansas City, Mo., David E. Nelson, D.Min., has a reputation for being among the most engaging, inspirational instructors. This is no small accomplishment, especially considering that Nelson’s professional background lies more in the spiritual than the medical realm. Nelson was ordained as a Lutheran minister in 1971. He served as a pastor in two parishes in Kansas and then spent 13 years as senior pastor at St. James Lutheran Church in Kansas City.....
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QUICK LOOK: First EMS/Patient Safety Organization Partnership Formed
What began as an effort by Missouri ambulance services to protect quality review confidentiality has become an innovative program designed to improve the quality and safety of health service delivery through the collection and analysis of patient safety data, from prehospital treatment through hospital release. With a $595,165 grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health to the Missouri Center for Patient Safety, the Missouri Ambulance Association will encourage all of the state's ambulance services to…....
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CAPITOL REPORT: First National Strategy for Health Security Released
The first National Health Security Strategy (NHSS), intended to minimize health consequences of major disasters by galvanizing a broad range of stakeholders, has been released by the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency charged with developing policy in this area in the 2006 Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act.....
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RESEARCH MONITOR: Scoop and Run for Penetrating Trauma?
In a review of 45,284 patients with penetrating trauma, those with spinal immobilization before transport (4.3 percent) “were twice as likely to die, even when controlling for other patient and injury characteristics,” Elliot R. Haut, M.D., from Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore told Research Monitor. ....
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UP FRONT: Boots on the Ground in Haiti
Dr. Eric Rasmussen happened to be sitting at his computer when the alert went out. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake had struck Haiti, and the news was grim. Rasmussen, the former Fleet Surgeon for the U.S. Navy's Third Fleet, started to prep for the journey. An expert in disaster response, he had been on 19 previous deployments, including the Indonesian Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. He had once lived in Haiti and knew firsthand the challenges there,…....
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RUMINATIONS: The Necessity of Story
Mr. Devins was a storyteller. I discovered this when I landed in his office on my first day of employment at the hospital he administered in the sleepy farming community of Waconia, Minn. It was 1977, and the little hospital had just acquired the dying local volunteer ambulance service. Paul Erickson and I had been hired to help staff the ambulance when the volunteers were not available. ....
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