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Winter Storm Delays 9-1-1 & Emergency Response for Infant
December 31, 2010New York City — After multiple unanswered 9-1-1 calls, a three-month-old boy was left brain dead after snow-clogged routes prevented EMS from reaching him quickly. Unplowed streets later forced the EMS personnel to ditch their ambulance and sprint with the ailing baby to the hospital.
Read full articlePolice Dispatcher Helps Cabbie Deliver Baby During Storm
December 28, 2010Oakland, Maine — Keelin Taylor was expected, but the way he came into the world Monday was a surprise to everyone. The boy was born just after 2 a.m. in the back seat of a taxi in Oakland, in the middle of a snowstorm.
Read full article9-1-1 Operator Gets ‘Stork’ Award
December 28, 2010Tahlequah, Okla. — A Cherokee Nation 9-1-1 telecommunicator was recently recognized for her directions over the phone to a father as he delivered his son on the side of the road.
Read full articleJasper County 9-1-1 Board & Family Thank Local 9-1-1 Dispatcher
December 16, 2010Carthage, Mo. — Brandi Rush was prepared for a big morning on Oct. 29. She was nine-months pregnant and she was slated to go to the hospital at 5 a.m. that day so her doctor could induce her labor, but baby Baylor had other ideas.
Read full articleVirtual ID Links Patients, Rescuers
December 13, 2010Gold Cross, the the 9-1-1 emergency responder for Salt Lake City and Uintah County, is introducing a virtual medical identification card that allows individuals and families to provide information through a secure online web service in case of an emergency.
Read full articleGrants from OnStar May Assist EMS in Predicting Injury Severity
December 1, 2010OnStar is enhancing its core safety focus. In coordination with the GM Foundation, OnStar is providing a grant of $500,000 to the International Center for Automotive Medicine at the University of Michigan Health System for research related to the prediction of injury severity level after a crash.
Read full articleLifeBot Signs Option for DREAMS: The $14 Million, Advanced ‘Super Ambulance’ Emergency EMS Telemedicine System Developed with U.S. Army Materiel Command
December 1, 2010Considered by many to be the most highly developed ambulance to hospital EMS telemedicine communications system ever deployed, DREAMS is the first and only system to provide fully interactive simultaneous “live” transmissions of video and critical patient data. The system in essence brings hospital specialists to the scene giving doctors and nurses a virtual telepresence to collaborate in saving lives and managing disasters in real time, on the “battlefield,” at home or abroad.
Read full articleAHA Releases New CPR Guidelines
October 21, 2010Compressions. Airway. Breathing. If you can remember the acronym CAB, you know the priority placed on each element of CPR in the just-released 2010 Guidelines for CPR from the American Heart Association. For adults, the new Guidelines recommend a chest compression rate of at least 100 compressions per minute and a depth of two inches.
Read full articleHIPAA Didn’t Kill the Radio Star
August 26, 2010The dawn of the age of HIPAA did not mark the demise of emergency medical dispatch (EMD) as we knew it. Nonetheless, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) did create some confusion regarding our traditional practices of communicating patient information over the radio airwaves.
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