4/22/07

EVOC-ative
Emergency Vehicle Safety in the 21st Century
Welcome to the people at T.E.A.M (Total Emergency Ambulance Management) Driving Concepts and the first article in our newest column, "EVOC-ative."

Photos
Playing nurse - New Zealand

America
Fire truck smashes into car - Cincinnati, Ohio
A Cincinnati fire truck crashed into a car Wednesday morning at West Eighth Street and Freeman Avenues in Queensgate, injuring the car's driver.
Ambulance service biller defends results - Kentucky
Frustration was evident by the end of a Hardin County Fiscal Court committee meeting on whether to renew
911 board member calls for ‘cooling-off period’ - Western District, Missouiri
One of three Western District members on the seven-member 911 board, Smith said he was uncertain if others on the board would agree
Merger talks coming to a head - San Diego, California
Proponents of combining the agencies into one fire department have said for years that such a merger would improve fire and paramedic service
Nikiski paramedic/ firefighter poisoned - Alaska
Carl Schwarz, a paramedic with the Nikiski Fire Department, was flown to the hospital April 14 after he fell ill, where it was determined he had somehow ingested antifreeze. Troopers look into whether it’s accidental or intentional
Post-9/11 hospital system utilized - Virginia
The Web-based emergency operations system, which is in place around the state, was created after the Sept. 11 attacks as a way to improve hospital response

Medevac
'There's money to be made' - New Jersey
The question of which helicopter is asked to respond to trauma calls is not just a question of patient care, as MONOC, a regional emergency response organization, maintains; it's also a cash competition, some say.
Aero Med: 20 years saving lives - Michighan
Aero Med has been helping save lives for 20 years, and a reunion of sorts took place Saturday at the Ford International Airport

Human Interest
One Night on the Job at Station 73 - California
The men of station 73 agreed that it's not until the job is done that they decompress, debrief and deal with the demands of the job.

Obits/Services
He died while he was ‘living his dream’ - Cambria, California
Hundreds paid tribute to paramedic Dave Melendy in Cambria on Saturday.
Allan J. Doody, EMT (ret) - Canton, Massachusetts
Mr. Doody was also an emergency medical technician, and was on the first ambulance-purchasing committee in town

Medevac
Trauma in the air - New Jersey
If you are critically injured in an automobile accident and need to be airlifted to a trauma center, you'd think you would always get the closest available medevac helicopter crew. Not in New Jersey.