Elevated temperatures in pediatric patients are some of the most common, and often frustrating types of calls in EMS. Are the parents over-reacting? Are we under-reacting?
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RescueDigest Resources: Patient Care Hand-Off
A critical safety and quality problem in the United States, patient care hand-off has been described as “The Bermuda Triangle of Healthcare”. Miscommunication is so common that it’s been found that ED staff members remember less than half of the information that EMS relays during verbal reports.
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Field Use of Social Mobile Technology for Emergency Services
The explosion of social media and mobile phone and tablet technology is changing our world. Emergency service organizations large and small are using social media and mobile applications for both bread and butter operations and large-scale crises response.
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Stroke In The Young: Big Numbers for Little People
Already the leading cause of disability in the US, shocking new information shows incidents of ischemic stroke increasing more than 50% in children from 5 to 14 years old since 1995.
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Powerful Presentations Inspiring Audiences
When educators develop and present programs, we don’t do it to display our PowerPoint skills or to show off the speaking tips we’ve gleaned from the latest TED talk. True educators build and deliver programs to inspire and enable their audiences to help move emergency services forward.
Read More »Hey Educator, You’ve Changed!
So if you’re new educator, don’t try and steamroll over the senior people because they don’t already know all about student centered social mobile online whatchamacallit. And for senior educators and staff in police, fire, and EMS, please continue to bring your knowledge and experience into the classroom, even if you have to stretch a little to do it in new and unfamiliar ways.
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Making Work Better: Improving Morale
Have you stopped asking “How are things?” at work, for fear that people might actually tell you? It can be said “They don’t have to LIKE it, they just have to DO it.”, but employee morale plays a vital role in job performance.
Read More »Academic Education and Technology
While we speak of education at RescueDigest most times we’re talking about training and education in leadership or operational issues. Floating somewhere in on and around those issues though is the purely academic aspect of education.
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Improving EMS Stroke Care: Saving Patients’ Lifes
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. . 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 ...
Read More »RescueDigest On The Road – Conferences & Gatherings 2013 (So Far)
RescueDigest is dedicated to finding and sharing Best Practices across all branches of Emergency Services. Our staff travels all over North America delivering Operational, Educational and Clinical Programs and Keynote Presentations for Police, Fire, EMS, Rescue personnel. If you’re going to be at a conference where we’re presenting, hit us up and say hello. There’s nothing better than getting ...
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