2016 Year in Review: Top Industry News

Here is a list of the most-read industry news items this year:

1. LifeVac Registers First Successful Rescue of Choking Victim—The device helped a female nursing home resident when she was choking on her lunch.
2. Taking STEMI Recognition to the Next Level—An online 12-lead ECG course provides paramedics, nurses and physicians with training in STEMI recognition.
3. Excellance Reveals Mobile Stroke Unit—. The vehicle is equipped with a lab and telemedicine systems that allow technicians working in the ambulance to interact with a neurologist, and the neurologist to interact with the patient, in real time.
4. FDNY Takes Delivery of a Dozen New Ambulances—The 12 new Wheeled Coach ambulances were built on International Terra Star cabs and chassis with V8 turbo diesel engines.
5. Childress Institute Awards Pediatric Trauma Device Grant—410 Medical received $50,000 for the development of a rapid blood delivery system to help injured children.
6. RevMedx Announces First Field Use of XSTAT—The use of XSTAT on a soldier was the first documented clinical use of the product since its release. After failing to staunch severe bleeding in the patient using standard hemostatic technologies, a United States forward surgical team (FST) used XSTAT to achieve almost immediate hemostasis.
7. Braun Industries to Debut Ambulance Crash Test Footage—As the fire/EMS industry's first ambulance rollover test, the video shows the incredible force exerted on an emergency vehicle and the effect on the module from a side-impact accident.
8. Custom WC-54 Ambulance Revealed in Time for Independence Day—Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the Dodge WC-54 four-wheeled vehicle was utilized by the American military as its principle ambulance carrier.
9. ZOLL’s Mobile Care Connect Streamlines Patient Transport Scheduling—Mobile Care Connect is an online  patient scheduling solution that integrates with ZOLL’s computer-aided dispatch solution.
10. Argo Unveils New 2017 Responder Vehicles—The vehicles are designed for reliable off-road travel for fire and rescue services.