Introduction—Airway management is a key component of prehospital care for seriously injured patients. Drug-assisted airway management is not a common intervention in the prehospital setti...
Introduction: EMS demand is ever-present, but significant variations exist at the local level. In this paper’s data set, annual county-level consumption of EMS varied greatly, from 153 to...
Airway management is a key component of prehospital care for seriously injured patients. Drug-assisted airway management is not a common intervention in the prehospital setting. Pharmacol...
Introduction: The cumulative experiences of the prehospital provider can weigh heavily and ultimately influence job satisfaction and external events. This study shines a light on the reli...
Introduction: Paramedic program directors struggle with balancing limited time available in clinical and field learning experiences with accomplishing required objectives and allowing for...
Introduction: Management theory indicates a happy employee is a productive employee and employee satisfaction is a leading cause of both retention and resignation. As the price tag of rep...
Introduction: A lack of standardization among paramedic programs has long been identified as one of the most significant problems in prehospital education. One example of this lack of sta...
Introduction: Paramedic programs spend a considerable amount of time and resources ensuring successful completion and documentation of individual laboratory skills for their students. The...
Introduction: According to the National Emergency Medical Services Education Standards the length of an initial Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) course is estimated to take about 150–19...