While at the National EMS Safety Summit in Denver, I took time, along with fellow speakers Christopher Colwell, MD, and Jon Krohmer, MD, to go outside during a break and look as silly as the rest of the world in our special glasses that shielded our eyes from the unseen sun rays.   “Why didn’t […]

This week I am attending the Pinnacle EMS Leadership Conference in Boca Raton, Fla.  There are some great examples of innovative ambulance design on desplay. FERNO      The latest FERNO InTrax design features a comfortable, adjustable seat.   DEMERS  This Demers Type III features their trademark wind deflector that houses emergency lighting and improve gas mileage.     […]

A.J. is in Los Angeles, Calif. visiting with JEMS advertisers. A.J. and West Coast sales consultant Mike Shear are in L.A. County visiting several JEMS advertisers.  They’ve been looking at some innovative new products that you soon will see in the pages of JEMS and at the JEMS EMS TODAY Conference in Charlotte Feb. 21-23. There are […]

This is one way to teach crews how to pack wounds.  They learn to apply packing and press it against a bone until the “bleeding” stops. Supplies needed: 1 roll of GLAD Press’N Seal IV bag and 10 drop IV set-up A syringe and red food coloring (to make “blood”) 2 lbs. of ground beef 2 large […]

This shows you how to turn an inexpensive, medium-size watermelon into a fun and challenging suction and BVM trainer. What follows is the step-by-step process to create a Watermelon Man What you need: A medium size watermelon, about the same size as a human head; A BVM with the mask(s) you want to use with […]

In Auckland, New Zealand at the 2016 Paramedics Australasia Conference FERNO SIM Games, November 16, 2016 The audience was in place and the judges were at their ready in Auckland New Zealand for the 2016 Paramedics Australasia FERNO SIM Challenge, a clinical competition patterned after the JEMS Games at EMS Today. Several of the teams participating […]

Standards vs. Standards: An in-depth look at the confusing world of vehicle standards The session title said it all on perhaps the most historic day in American politics as ambulance experts presented a review of where we are at in the quest for new, safer ambulance standards. After years of hard work and input by […]

In Feb. 2016 JEMS, we featured Allina Healthcare EMS.  As a part of that story, we stated that, if your organization needed a wake-up call about the impact a serious ambulance crash can have, there was much you can learn from Allina Health EMS. After a horrific ambulance crash in 2014 that left two Allina […]

By A.J. Heightman, MPA, EMT-P, Editor-in-Chief of JEMS The American Ambulance Association offered an Employment Law Basics Webinar on October 12 that presented valuable information on the employment relationship, the greatest legal exposure to every employer. This session was designed for front-line supervisors and managers and provided a practical understanding of the basic principles of employment law […]

Point Counter-Point on EMS Scene Staging and Actions       Introduction by A.J. Heightman, JEMS Editor-in-Chief A recent Blog post on FireEngineering.com by Mike McEvoy, EMS Editor for Fire Engineering and a member of the JEMS Editorial Board, fired up some readers, authors and educators who wanted to weigh in on the current practices of EMS […]