Innovations in Patient Care
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LIFENet Software Helps Create Custom Alerts for Patients
Lukas Busek, Senior Product Manager for Data Solutions at Physio-Control comes on the MedicCast to talk about the LIFENET software package that enables all sorts of customization for patient care. One of the things that can easily be customized is [...]
Sepsis Diagnosis Updates Help Innovate Patient Care
Sepsis and septic shock is one of the things we are supposed to be trained to recognize in EMS but there has never been an EMS-accessible set of assessments that could be used in the prehospital setting. A recent research [...]
Civilian EMS Responders Innovating Care in New Jersey
EMS10 Awardee Rob Luckritz chats about his program to involve civilian EMS responders to improve EMS response times in parts of Jersey City, New Jersey. Using the initial response of over 100 volunteers, 49 were selected and graduated from the [...]
Austrian EMS Innovation in Education
Christoph Redelsteiner is a paramedic and professor at the University of Applied Sciences in St. Pölten, Austria. He is another of the EMS 10 Awardees who was recognized for his efforts to raise paramedic education to the bachelor’s degree level [...]
EMS Research Innovating Healthcare Education
First up this week is a look at two EMS10 Awardees from North Carolina who are changing the way we educate EMS providers about EMS research. Ginny Renkiewicz and Sara Houston are two paramedics and educators at North Carolina State [...]
Cam Pollock from Physio-Control Talks Innovation
Physio-Control, Inc’s Chief Marketing Officer Cam Pollock came by to chat with Innovations in Patient Care host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic. The two of them discussed the recent acquisition of Physio-Control by Stryker and the most recent technology inno...
Using Telemedicine to Reduce Ambulance Transports
Dr. David Persee is Medical Director of the Houston Fire Department and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. David Persee developed a unique, innovative, technology-based program in December 2014 – called ETHAN (Emergency Te...
Dan Fellows Powers Ambulances With The Sun
Dan Fellows is the Fleet Manager for the Richmond Ambulance Authority in Richmond, Virginia. He decided to see what effect putting a solar panel on the roof of a utility vehicle that was parked outside all the time would have [...]
Bringing EMS Care and Paramedics to Nigeria
Nnamdi Nwauwa, EMT, CCEMTP, EMS instr/Ass, MBBS, MPH, MMSCEM, innovated EMS care by implementing programs to bring paramedic training to the country of Nigeria for the first time. He chats with Jamie Davis,
Community Paramedicine Comes to Washington State
Washington State paramedic Shaughn Maxwell won a second EMS 10 Innovator award this year for his innovation in changing state laws to allow EMS providers to give care in the home without requiring transport to the hospital. Shaughn compiled and [...]