Best Practices - June 2009

Special Preview: Swift, High-Tech Response Keeps EMS On Top of Swine Flu Outbreak By Lauren Simon
A lot has changed since 8,098 people became sick with SARS during the 2003 worldwide outbreak. Today, information travels at supersonic speeds via email, the Web, Twitter, Wikis, GIS maps, and social networks. Instead of having too little information when a crisis occurs, some people think there is too much. ....
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COVER STORY

TVF&R Partners with Transportation Engineers on Traffic Calming and Highway Intelligence
One of the core values of Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue (TVF&R) is teamwork, or as stated in its strategic plan: “We value teamwork and the strength of decisions developed through open and collaborative processes.” Nowhere is this value more evident than in TVF&R’s recent efforts to think outside of the box when it comes to its local streets and highways. ....
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Q&A: Brooklyn Park Fire Chief Ken Prillaman
Ken Prillaman spent close to a quarter century in the insurance and financial services industries before becoming fire chief of the Brooklyn Park, Minn. Fire Department in July 2008. Prillaman spoke with Best Practices from this unique perspective....
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High-Tech Tools Give Medics the Edge By Karen Edwards
A man aboard a 60-foot boat about 200 miles off the French Guyana coast had a heart attack, which according to paramedic Andrew Cull, is "probably the worst place in the world to have a medical emergency." Cull should know. As the founder and chief executive officer of Remote Medical International (RMI), he is all too familiar with medical emergencies off the beaten path. ....
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Summer Reading Recommendations
As you settle into summer and consider the reading you will take to the cabin, beach or backyard, bypass that pile of emergency services-related reports, and pick up something unexpected. ....
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Quick Look: Physician Influential with Obama
After the presidential election but before he took office, Barack Obama vacationed in Hawaii. As news photographers tracked his every move, they also captured someone else: Obama's longtime friend Eric Whitaker, MD, MPH, who appeared in photographs wearing a T-shirt from IMERT, the Illinois Medical Emergency Response Team. Whitaker recently was in the news again defending a program at the University of Chicago, where he works, that diverts non-critically ill patients from…....
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Research Monitor: Female Healthcare Workers at Greater Injury Risk
Risk for all injuries, and specifically for musculoskeletal injuries, over one year was significantly higher among female, compared with male, Canadian healthcare workers, found Hasanat Alamgir and colleagues at the Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare in British Columbia.....
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Patient Zero By John Becknell and Lauren Simon
Mercy Flights General Manager Ken Parsons is someone we like very much. We don’t know him. At least, not personally. But we talk about him often when we plan articles for Best Practices. Why? Because Ken subscribed to Best Practices in 1998, and 12 years later, he remains one of this newsletter’s most loyal readers. You might call him our Patient Zero.....
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Strategies on Downsizing Field Deployment in a Tough Economy, Pt 1 By Stewart Gary
Most of us have led our organizations through a normal recession or two, but nothing of the magnitude that we have lived through this year. And by now, we know that we can’t rely on the old economic models that plan forward based on past growth. ....
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