United Hatzalah- Psychotrauma & Crisis Response Unit Australia – Ambulance Victoria Launches Mental Health and Well being strategy Articles EMS World- Planning for Emotional Disasters EMS1- Are We Working EMS Providers to Death EMS1- EMS Responders at Risk of being Second Victim EMS World- Why S...
EMS Response to Patients with Special Needs: Assessment, Treatment and Transport is the first comprehensive resource of its kind to address the emergency prehospital needs of people with disabilities. “A large subset of our population could be at risk for misunderstandings, potentially inadequate patie...
say, 15 minutes. With expected delays beyond that time limit, it may be acceptable to dispatch a BLS unit to begin care while still allowing the ALS resource to join the response from a longer distance. However, the practicality of that rigid ...
These events have spawned initiatives and opened conversations at high levels of government that used to be non-starters, and the prospect of change and progress in the legislation to control illegal access to lethal weapons and improve mental health resources has the most realistic chance of being...
California Cities Change Response to Mental Health Calls EMS Updates May 13, 2021 In the United States 1 out of 5 adults suffer from mental illness, ranging anywhere from depression to schizophrenia. 1 in 8 of all visits to US emergency departments are related to mental and substance use disor...
psychological distress even in high-income context [84]. Belonging in the family of interventions aiming to scale up mental health care in primary care context, the World Health Organization [85] developed Problem Management Plus (PM +) as a manualized response to a wide range of mental heal...
Many who work in EMS roles are suffering from significant mental health conditions, or are just plain burnt out. Under-resourced, taken for granted, and expected to be impervious to severe workplace stress--it seems unsustainable. Is it time to rethink responder "resiliency" and examine the ...
One agency making great strides in responder health and wellness is Global Medical Response (GMR). They created a specific division calledGMR Life, established specifically to address employee health and wellness. As Matt Philbrick, the manager of GMR Life, explains, “In an effort to change the...
Mental Health Awareness for Emergency Responders Television and movies often glamorize the lives of first responders, portraying them as constantly engaged in adrenaline-pumping heroics. This course aims to shed light on the real experiences of EMS providers, challenging stereotypes and addressing the ...
economic modeling of EMS systems during the 80’s and 90’s in response to the imbalance of demand and financing that had already fractured EMS into a kaleidoscope of models from fire-based, public safety to “third-service” public utility models to for-profit integrated healthcare businesses....