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Rural and Frontier EMS Agenda for the Future
The Rural and Frontier EMS Agenda for the Future was recently rolled out at the National Association of State EMS Directors annual meeting.

Homeland Security Department Focuses on Interoperability
Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge recently announced the launch of the Office of Interoperability and Compatibility. This office will “oversee the wide range of public safety interoperability programs and efforts currently spread across Homeland Security”. According to the Homeland Security web site, these programs will address critical issues relating to interoperability in public safety and emergency response.

FDA Approves Implantable Data Chip
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the human use of an implantable computer chip that will provide health care professionals with quick access to vital patient information.
 
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The HAT TRICK Method of Completing EMS Reports
By Mike Kennamer, Northeast Alabama Community College

EMTs learn, from their first day of school, to present themselves as professionals in attitude, appearance, and actions. Basic skills are learned and practiced until they become second nature. Most pre-hospital care professionals could do CPR in their sleep. Documentation, however, is one skill that many EMTs neither enjoy nor feel comfortable with. The problem is not that the EMS provider doesn’t know how to write a report. The problem seems to be that most EMTs do not have a specific system for writing a report.

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Critical thinking and the ability to speak to and defend science are skills critical to the pre-hospital practitioner of the 21st century. To facilitate this process, students may be assigned poster presentations. Poster presentations give students the opportunity to research a topic, work independently or collaboratively as the situation demands, and to further investigate a subject Find out how

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It is sometimes difficult to keep up with notes (history, vital signs, etc.) you take during a call, especially when you have multiple patients, extended extrications, or back-to-back runs. Writing notes on a piece of 2- or 3-inch medical tape placed on your pant leg will help you keep up with the notes, even during the most trying call.

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