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This infographic highlights the changes in the American Heart Association/Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation CPR/ECC guidelines in 2015. Full guidelines at https://eccguidelines.heart.org/index.php/circulation/cpr-ecc-guidelines-2/
Report from the Center for Patient Safety outlines the 10 patient safety topics that will move EMS forward in 2016.
The Departments of Health & Human Services and Transportation continuously look to the future at how emergency medical services may be delivered and paid for as accountable and performance-based care is implemented nationwide.
The CoAEMSP board and staff are pleased to release the 2014-2015 Annual Report. Strategic goals are: Developing a high level process for the collection and analysis of data for the purpose of improving EMS education. Restructure board/staff to meet the needs of the growing organization and EMS profession. Improve Board engagement and effectiveness. Position CoAEMSP to effectively res...
Document identifies best practices and specific recommendations across the emergency service spectrum
Healthcare and social service workers face significant risks of job-related violence and it is OSHA’s mission to help employers address these serious hazards. This publication updates OSHA’s 1996 and 2004 voluntary guidelines for preventing workplace violence for healthcare and social service workers. OSHA’s violence prevention guidelines are based on industry best practices and feedb...
Case studies featuring users of integrated healthcare products, technologies and services. 
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers have to coordinate and collaborate with various transport units to ensure that emergency services are provided in a timely manner to save precious lives. The dispatch team has to route ambulances so that the correct emergency resources are directed to the location of the incident as quickly as possible.
A new report from AHRQ concludes that home-visiting programs and multidisciplinary-HF clinic–based interventions for patients with HF reduced all-cause readmissions and mortality over 3 to 6 months. Structured telephone support reduced HF-specific readmissions and mortality over 3 to 6 months. However, structured telephone support did not reduce all-cause readmissions over a similar t...