The JEMS Report

Dr. Candice McDonald and Robin Goldinger, RN, talk about empowering women in emergency medical services.

Tim Nowak is the Founder & CEO of Emergency Medical Solutions, LLC, an EMS training & consulting company that he developed in 2010. His background includes nearly a decade of company officer and chief officer level experience, in addition to training content delivery and program development spanning his entire career. Tim also has active experience as a columnist and content developer with over 200 published works and over 100 hours of education content available online. He is also a social media influencer on LinkedIn within the EMS industry.

Infection control consultant Katherine West explains the new influenza vaccines for the upcoming year.

Chief Douglas Randell talks with Kraig Kinney and Dr. Michael Kaufmann from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, EMS Division, and Dr. Kristina Box, commissioner of the Indiana Department of Health, on the state's Coronavirus response.

Doug Hexel has been in emergency services since 2004 and currently serves as a firefighter-paramedic for the City of Schenectady (NY), a rescue-medical specialist for New York Urban/Technical Search and Rescue Task Force 2 (NY-TF2), paramedic instructor at the State University of New York at Cobleskill and shift commander at the Albany County Sheriff’s Office EMS Division, where he is also a lead instructor.  He is a New York State Certified Instructor Coordinator (CIC) and holds technician-level certification in rope, confined space, trench, swiftwater and collapse rescue.  His professional passion is educating paramedics and paramedic students in all realms of EMS and technical rescue, as well as removing the stigma of “fire medics” among providers.

Scot Phelps and Maria Werner talk about why 911 controllers and communicators are handcuffed from doing their job the proper way.

If you’ve ever read a medical research study, even just the headline, this podcast is for you. If you’re an EMS educator leading the next generation of EMS providers to our field, this podcast is for you. If you’re a training officer or other EMS professional who presents to colleagues or medical directors, this podcast is for you. You don’t have to be a statistician to interpret all the studies. You don’t even have to be a statistician.

Tony Fernandez has been a nationally certified paramedic since 2005. Tony was the second individual to successfully complete the Emergency Medical Services Research fellowship offered by the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians. Upon completion of this program,  Tony was a research assistant professor within the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. 

Within the department, Tony was the director of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Research for the EMS Performance Improvement Center, which develops and maintains a comprehensive statewide EMS Data System for North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia.

In addition to serving as research director, his own research focuses on patient care in the prehospital environment, EMS occupational health and safety, disaster preparedness, and understanding the EMS workforce. In 2012, Tony was elected as a Fellow for the American Heart Association (AHA).  Tony currently works as a research scientist at ESO.

This is part two of a two-part mid-pandemic deep dive — Jonathon Feit sits down with Joseph Casciotti, battalion chief of Community Medicine at the Harris County (TX) Emergency Service District 48 Fire Department.

In this installment, the two explore the experience of sharing data with a state immunization registry… only to find errors in one’s own vaccine record.

Listen to part one here.

In honor of Telecommunication Week, the EMS Handoff has a special recording highlighting some telecommunication professionals as they discuss telecommunication, the job profile, challenges, and even, the “perfect” system. 

Randy Beeman is the current National Emergency Number Association (NENA) chapter president. He is a 30-year retired medic with 40+ years in local government but currently serves as the director of Durham Emergency Communications Center. Randy holds a B.A. in business administration. 

Ollie Wall is a communications shift supervisor at Durham Emergency Communications Center in Durham, NC, and has worked for the department for 20 years. Her career began as a telecommunicator and served as a mentor before stepping into her full-time supervisor role.

How fast should you operate an ambulance? How strong is a signature in a patient care refusal situation? Doug Wolfberg joins us to discuss this and more on this week’s episode about Doug’s top five EMS issues.

Doug Wolfberg, a founding member of Page, Wolfberg & Wirth, has been a practicing EMS attorney for 25 years. Doug is a nationally respected EMS leader who has been involved in the profession for over 40 years, having served as an EMS practitioner, a county EMS director and an EMS administrator at the regional, state and federal levels over the course of his career.