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Weatherford Communications Center Implements APCO EMD
December 13, 2018Alexandria, VA – Weatherford Communications Center, Oklahoma, recently implemented the APCO Institute Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) Program. The center employs 13…
Read full articleAda-Pontotoc County E-9-1-1 Center Implements APCO EMD
June 4, 2015Residents in Ada, OK now have the added strength of the APCO Institute’s Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) behind their 9-1-1 call center because the Ada-Pontotoc County E-9-1-1 Center recently implemented the program.
Read full articlePerry County 9-1-1 Center Implements APCO EMD
June 4, 2015Residents in New Lexington, OH now have the added strength of the APCO Institute’s Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) behind their 9-1-1 call center because the Perry County 9-1-1 Center recently implemented the program.
Read full articleFranklin County (Va.) Talks Medical Dispatchers
January 14, 2015Dispatchers currently don’t give medical advice because they are not trained to do so.
Read full articleRegional Emergency Dispatch Center Implements APCO EMD
May 30, 2013Alexandria, VA – Residents in Western Stark County, OH, now have the added strength of APCO Institute Emergency Medical Dispatch…
Read full articleLewston-Auburn Dispatcher Helps Deliver Her Fifth Baby
April 23, 2013LEWISTON — Three little words changed everything. “The head’s showing.” On one end of the 911 call, Andrew Colapietro, about-to-be father of three, on the bathroom floor with his wife. On the other end, Buffy Gammon, a dispatcsupervisor at Lewiston-Auburn 911.
Read full articlePre-Arrival CPR: Denial Sparks Controversy
March 7, 2013“It was truly upsetting listening to the 9-1-1 call about the incident and knowing that the caller was a medically trained person who was under orders not to provide medical treatment,” says APCO Life Member Mark Pallans, a communications consultant in North Las Vegas, Nev. “But if a plain, ordinary citizen had made that same call would be the uproar still be there?”
Read full articleWoman, 87, Dies After Nurse Refuses to Do CPR
March 4, 2013A central California retirement home is defending one of its nurses who refused pleas by a 9-1-1 telecommunicator to perform CPR on an elderly woman, who later died.
Read full articleArk. Woman Dies After 9-1-1 Call Not Put In System
January 17, 2013LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas 911 operator did not enter a call into a computer system that would have notified police and fire dispatchers of a mother and son trapped inside a vehicle in a pond, authorities said Wednesday. The woman died hours later, and her 5-year-old son was in critical condition Wednesday, police said.
Read full articleHospitals Crack Down on Workers Refusing Flu Shots
January 15, 2013CHICAGO (AP) — Patients can refuse a flu shot. Should doctors and nurses have that right, too? That is the thorny question surfacing as U.S. hospitals increasingly crack down on employees who won’t get flu shots, with some workers losing their jobs over their refusal.
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