MedStar Mobile Healthcare has implemented a Resuscitation Quality Improvement Telecommunicator to deliver high-quality telephone CPR to patients experiencing cardiac arrest.
More than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in the United States annually, according to the American Heart Association.
Cardiac arrest is a life-threatening condition with about a 10-minute life expectancy without immediate CPR from a bystander… READ MORE
The nation’s move to the next generation of 911 technology has made strides over the past year, but industry experts said during an online event Friday that considerable work is still needed in securing sustainable funding from Congress and establishing standards, particularly to secure the new, IP-based systems.
Recent developments affecting next-generation 911 include an announcement this week by Jessica Rosenworcel, acting chair of the Federal Communications Commission, that the FCC has secured agreements with the nation’s three largest wireless carriers — AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon — to begin delivering vertical location data nationwide. The companies have agreed to immediately begin providing 911 centers nationwide with what the industry calls “z-axis” data, intended to help first responders more quickly locate callers in multi-story buildings…
MEIGS COUNTY, Tenn. — A family in Meigs County credits a quick-thinking 911 dispatcher for saving a life, even though the dispatcher wasn’t near the person she saved.
On May 1st, Karissa Cardner successfully gave CPR instructions for a 25-year-old man who was unresponsive. That saved his life.
Cardner’s training was made possible through the new Telecommunicator CPR law in Tennessee, which went into effect in January of this year…
Question:What’s the status of Ripon’s dispatch transfer?Answer:After nine months of intensive work, the transfer of all Emergency Communications Services between the city of Ripon and Fond du Lac County Communications Center happened Tuesday.
“The transition has been made — fire, EMS and police,” City Administrator Adam Sonntag said. “We had a department head meeting [Wednesday], and all of them indicated that — short of a couple of hiccups, but nothing major — the transition went really smoothly.”
Members of the Ripon Police Department, Ripon Guardian Ambulance Service, Ripon Area Fire District (RAFD) and Fond du Lac County Communications have been working behind the scenes to ensure a smooth transition over the last nine months…
Spencer Merritt thought he was going to die. Voices in his head—angry, insistent voices—told him he’d been poisoned by Ivermex, an antiparasite drug prescribed for veterinary use that his mother kept in the house. Other imagined voices belonging to his mother and stepfather told him they had poisoned his beloved dog, Lulu, who had died a year earlier. He thought they were talking to him through hidden microphones and speakers, although he couldn’t find any in his room.
Merritt, 32, felt like he couldn’t breathe. He thought he was having a heart attack. His cluttered second-story bedroom seemed like a death trap, and he was terrified that his parents were going to kill him. He bolted up from the sofa he used as a bed, ran down the stairs and out the front door. It was 1 a.m. and he was wearing jogging pants and a blue bathrobe. Outside, on the streets, he paced and ran, falling to the ground several times as pain shot to his chest and voices echoed in his head. Maybe he was having a seizure, he thought…
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