LARGO â As part of the marking of Emergency Medical Services Week, Pinellas County commissioners heard the reading of a proclamation at their May 11 meeting, as well as the names of this yearâs EMS Professionals of the Year.
Among the honorees is Matt Albright, the 2021 Emergency Medical Dispatcher. He works at the regional 911 center. The title of Emergency Medical Technical of the Year went to Aaron Pearce, an EMT/field training officer at Sunstar Paramedics, and Paramedic of the Year is David Walker, firefighter/paramedic and continuing medical education instructor with St. Petersburg Fire Rescue.
It was a quiet meeting. Only two spoke in-person during the public comment period and two online.
Why We Need to Take the ‘Fire’ Out of ‘Fire Department’
Firefighters don t actually fight that many fires these days. It s time to re-think how we deliver costly emergency services.
June 26, 2015 • It s arguably the best known, least acknowledged and most inconvenient truth in local government: Fire departments in the precise meaning of that label no longer exist anywhere in America.
Thousands of official entities bear this or a similar moniker. But given what they and their employees actually do, Emergency Medical, Incident Response and Every-Once-in-a-While-an-Actual-Fire Department would be far more accurate.
In 1980, according to the National Fire Protection Association, the nation s 30,000 fire departments responded to 10.8 million emergency calls. About 3 million were classified as fires. By 2013, total calls had nearly tripled to 31.6 million, while fire calls had plummeted to 1.24 million, of which just 500,000 of
Bengaluru (Karnataka)[India], January10 (ANI/PRNewswire): Despite the pandemic, Bengaluru s ambulance drivers have been the fearless warriors to handle emergencies. While the healthcare workers and nurses are truly executing commendable efforts during this period, the ambulance rescue team members have taken extensive measures and constantly served people in need. They have extended complete support to the healthcare team in handling emergency situations.
Manipal Hospitals has been one of the healthcare entities that has introduced one-of-a-kind life-saving training methods to handle emergencies during the Golden Hour. With a fleet of 30 ambulances that travels across Bengaluru & outskirts of the city, the ambulance has a paramedical staff, aka Emergency Medical Technical team, who are trained in basic life support. In case the patient is critical, then a team trained in advanced life support will provide emergency medical care to the patient.