RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services.

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Improving EMS Stroke Care: Saving Patients’ Lifes

No, the spell checker didn’t miss that one. I had to fight with it to keep “LIFES” in there. These RescueDigest Resources can help your improve your understanding, assessment and treatment of acute stroke, as well as improve your integration with Stroke Systems of Care. To save “LIVES”? Sure. You’ll be able to do that better. But improving stroke care isn’t just about life and death. Its more important than that. By refining your skills and getting your stroke patient to definitive care at a primary stoke center you’ll be making a huge difference in their quality of “LIFE”!

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How you can use these resources: RescueDigest curates great research and resources during the development of our articles and educational programs. Since our mission is to “Help You Help Others” we present the best of these resources for you to explore, share and use in your own agency.

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American Stroke Association & CDC Acute Stroke Care Treatment Guidelines

2019 Guidelines for Management of Stroke

CDC – Stroke Home – DHDSP

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General Stroke Education Resources

Healthcare Professionals’ and EMS Stroke Patient Resources

EMS4Stroke Education Program for EMS Professionals | Stroke Awareness

EMS  Resources | Stroke Awareness

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EMS Stroke Care Articles

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Rommie Duckworth is a dedicated emergency responder, author, and educator with more than thirty years of experience working in career and volunteer fire departments, hospital healthcare systems, and private emergency medical services. Rom is a career fire captain and paramedic EMS Coordinator for Ridgefield (CT) Fire Department and director of the New England Center for Rescue and Emergency Medicine. Rom holds a master’s degree in public administration, is a graduate of the National Fire Academy’s Executive Fire Officer program, and is the recipient of the NAEMT Presidential Award, American Red Cross Hero Award, Sepsis Alliance Sepsis Hero Award, and the EMS 10 Innovators Award. Rom is the author of “Duckworth on Education” as well as chapters in more than a dozen EMS, fire, rescue, and medical textbooks and over 100 published articles in fire and EMS magazines. A member of the NAEMT Board of Directors, Sepsis Alliance Advisory Board, as well as other professional advocacy and advisory boards, Rom continues to work for the advancement of emergency services.

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