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The 2021 EMS Provider's Guide to National Registry Recertification

Our nation's healthcare system and the demands on its providers are constantly changing—and the current environment is bringing new challenges to the educational and certification processes. As a university rooted in emergency and safety services training, Columbia Southern University is proud to partner with EMS World and the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT...

EMS Education in 2020 and Beyond

Education has been one of the most significantly impacted segments from the COVID pandemic, as traditional in-person models have been forced to pivot to a fully remote training structure. What does this mean for "hands-on" fields such as EMS? This special supplement, produced in partnership with iSimulate, takes a look at EMS education today, and where we may be headed in the future....

Infographic: Maximize Your Well-Being During COVID

Healthcare workers (HCWs) around the globe are fighting the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The mental health of many EMS personnel in badly hit communities was battered in the first round of the fight, and few have had time to properly recover before going in for round two. The tidal wave of goodwill toward health workers seen in the early months of the pandemic helped ma...

Proceedings of the International State of the Future of Resuscitation Conference

Take Heart America is pleased to share the proceedings from the 2nd Annual International State of The Future of Resuscitation Conference, held at Parc Floral, Paris, France in October 2019. Thirty resuscitation experts presented important resuscitation work, advancements and successful outcomes to more than 350 EMS providers, including EMTs, paramedics, nurses, physicians, medical te...

January 2000 Cover Report: Millennium EMS

In January 2000 EMS World was known as Emergency Medical Services Magazine. For that first issue of the new millennium we asked some industry veterans to predict the future of EMS. Twenty years later, we revisited those predictions for the September 2020 cover story. Scanned from the original hard copy, please enjoy this look back at our January 2000 cover story, "Millennium EMS." ...

EMS Law: Legal Lessons Learned and Best Practices, 3rd Edition

Keep yourself in compliance with the law and out of court. Larry Bennett, program chair for fire science and emergency management at the University of Cincinnati, publishes a monthly Fire & EMS and Safety Law newsletter. Bennett's 3rd edition of the comprehensive text EMS Law includes recent notable cases brought to verdict, chapters from the National Fire Academy's model course "...

Texas NAEMSP Practice Guidelines During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Texas NAEMSP developed guidelines to help EMS agencies navigate protocol changes and best practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. These guidelines were developed by the authors to meet the needs of their agencies and patient populations. EMS medical directors are encouraged to review and adopt these guidelines as best makes sense for their own individual departments and patient popula...

Innovations in Pandemic Care

Building Lifesaving Communities

This eBook, produced jointly by the Red Cross and EMS World, highlights the important work that the Red Cross is doing on the front lines of communities:

EMS Case Law: Legal Lessons Learned

Larry Bennett, program chair for fire science and emergency management at the University of Cincinnati, has compiled interesting EMS legal cases and their outcomes from his monthly Fire & EMS and Safety Law newsletter. They are presented here in one download. Subscribe to Bennett's newsletter by e-mailing Lawrence.bennett@uc.edu.