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Public Affairs: Matt Zavadsky, Senior Editor

Pharmaceutical Backorder Report - UPDATE 3

Attached please find this week’s Pharmaceutical Backorder Report. Things to note on this week’s report:

Morphine 10mg, 1ml carpujects- This item was the only available 10mg Morphine and it is now on backorder, manufacturer ETA is not until March. At this time there is no available substitute. I will update as soon as information is available.

Nitro Tabs- Pfizer has both the 25 and 100 count bottles on backorder. It is expected to be a short term backorder with more inventory expected in
within 1-2 weeks.

Backorder Report #3 (pdf)

Jan 9, 2012, 12:46:25 PM

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Ambulance Crash Log

Two Dead From Accident on Route 20, Other in Hospital - Virginia

Virginia State Police have identified the victims of Friday's deadly crash involving an ambulance and a cement mixer.

Jan 9, 2012, 9:01:12 PM

America

Ring of Gunfire: Detroit EMS Unit Stranded on New Year's Eve - Michigan

Play the video in the player to see the video taken by paramedic Wisam Zeineh and to hear the sounds of almost constant gunfire as he and his partner sit in their broken down rig.

Jan 9, 2012, 8:51:50 PM

Bodily Assault Log

Wilton woman charged with assaulting paramedic, deputy - Maine

A 33-year-old woman faces multiple charges after being accused of assaulting a police officer and a paramedic who responded to a domestic disturbance Sunday afternoon

Jan 9, 2012, 8:50:37 PM

Criminal

Ambulance Worker Admitted to Sex Assault - Connecticut

The woman told police she woke up on the way to Yale–New Haven Hospital and Powell was sexually assaulting her. She was not able to move because she was strapped to a stretcher, she told police.

Jan 9, 2012, 8:37:47 PM

Criminal

Off-duty firefighter made phony emergency calls to rob fire stations - Nevada

A Clark County firefighter has been charged with 10 felony counts of burglary after reportedly confessing to stealing about $800 from fellow firefighters.

Jan 9, 2012, 8:36:42 PM

Criminal

Her case shows why healthcare privacy laws exist - California

They showed the entire chart to an editor of her hometown newspaper, and Prime's corporate office divulged some of her medical examination results to me (though I didn't ask for them). They didn't have her permission for those disclosures, her daughter says.

Jan 9, 2012, 8:34:57 PM

Criminal

#NDAA arrest, medic carried out by NYPD - New York

During the Grand Central Station rally to show the disgust of Obama signing into law the NDAA bill. #OWS medic was carried out without reason or explanation from rally. He was arrested for seemingly doing nothing.

Jan 9, 2012, 8:33:24 PM

Criminal

EMT Charged With Hit & Run - Pennsylvania

New details tonight on the man charged in a hit and run in Delaware county. Police say Matthew Cooper, the man they say was behind the wheel of the car that struck a father of two on new year's day, works as an EMT.

Jan 9, 2012, 8:31:55 PM

Obits/Services

Timothy Kyle Southern - Virginia

Kyle, also known as "Bubby," was a driver and EMT for Priority Patient Transport, and a volunteer EMT with the Waynesboro First Aid Crew for the last 4 years

Jan 9, 2012, 8:28:53 PM

Special Report

New England Journal: 200 years of medical history

Unhappy with today's health care? Think of what it was like to be sick 200 years ago.

Jan 9, 2012, 8:19:32 PM

Legal

Law keeps Ohio out of US database on ambulance runs

Ohio's emergency medical services agency wants to change a law two decades old that keeps the state from sending data on ambulance runs to a national database set up to improve patient care.

Jan 9, 2012, 8:18:42 PM

Legal

Ambulance company sues over "breached agreement" - Pennsylvania

Lackawanna Ambulance Inc. is suing Old Forge Ambulance and Rescue Association for $56,000 that Lackawanna claims it is owed for responding to 295 first-aid calls in the borough over a nearly three-year period.

Jan 9, 2012, 8:18:39 PM

Medevac

Opinion: Passing the MEDEVAC Buck

Jan 9, 2012, 7:28:55 PM

Military

RCT-5 sailors track, provide care for brothers-in-arms

CAMP DWYER, Helmand province, Afghanistan – U.S. Navy corpsmen are vital to keeping Marines in the business of fighting battles.

Jan 9, 2012, 7:25:38 PM

Military

For former medic, Iraq service a slideshow of hurt, doubts

Months after deploying to Iraq with the Nebraska National Guard's 313th Medical Company, Rachelle Spors was badly injured when a roadside bomb exploded beneath the military ambulance she was driving in July 2005.

Jan 9, 2012, 7:25:36 PM

Features

Muslim Sept. 11 responder deserves hero's honor

But you won’t find Hamdani’s name among those of official first responders at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in Manhattan. And don’t look for him on the list of those who died in the towers, although his remains were found where the north tower once stood.

Jan 9, 2012, 7:23:32 PM

Features

Smith & Warren is proud to introduce The Badge of Life

The Badge of Life™ has been uniquely designed to reflect the EMS professionals pledge to:
SAVE - By providing the best treatment available to patients while in your care.
SERVE- The community in which you work without discrimination.
RESPECT - The dignity and privacy of those homes and businesses you enter.