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 […]

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 […]

A.J. is in Omaha Nebraska lecturing at the Nebraska Emergency Medical Services Association conference. He will be delivering seven lectures over the next three days, including a keynote address on leadership lessons from the show MASH. He is joined by several other popular speakers including Steve Murphy, Dennis Edgerly and Jess Fulkerson. He is shown […]

The massive and modern-day mechanical wonder flew like it had never left the ground.

Stabbed in the Back In my March Editor’s Page, entitled “You Have a lot of Nerve,” I talked about the various types of pain patients experience and noted that one of the most complex types of pain is invisible  pain, pain the patient describes or complains about, but you either can’t find a cause for or don’t […]

Rear of a Ladder Truck at FDIC Side compartment door of ambulances built by PL Custom Ambulances (NJ) for Baltimore County Fire Department Rear of a Rescue Truck at FDIC A plit striping pattern on a rescue truck – Still very effective Reflective back and lower side striping = ver effective Chevron striping goes from […]

    30,000 emergency responders got a chance to see the new FERNO iNX Patient Transport and Loading System at the FDIC conference in Indianapolis recently. Just as the space shuttle revolutionized and simplified complex space travel and payload delivery to the International Space Station, the new Ferno iNX Patient Transport and Loading System, introduced […]

A.J. is at PennWell’s FDIC (Fire Department Instructors) Conference in Indianapolis the next few days. FDIC is one of the largest emergency service conferences in the world attracting more than 30,000 attendees to the show, which features over 800 exhibitors. Many of the attendees have EMS responsibilities, so the exhibit hall is packed with EMS […]

Savannah, a 1-year-old Health Disease Detection dog, visits with JEMS Editor-in-Chief A.J. Heightmann at the JEMS/Penwell booth at the FDIC Conference. Savannah is at the conference exhibiting how Health Disease Detection dogs can detect multiple types of cancer. Savannah alerts her handler when a patient should seek medical treatment with high accuracy. The group is booth number 3172 […]

Sound asleep all tucked in his bed after preparing triage tags and other training supplies for a two-day mass casualty incident (MCI) workshop in Wake County, N.C., this past weekend, I was awoken by the fire alarm system at the Renaissance Hotel. It was 2:30 a.m., and what I thought was my alarm clock turned […]