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CALSTAR was founded as a nonprofit public-benefit corporation in 1983 and began flight operations the following year using a leased BK 117 helicopter based at Peninsula Hospital in San Mateo, California. [2] In its first year, they flew 235 patients. By 2010, CALSTAR’s operations had increased to gain ten helicopters.
Tactical EMS utilization has grown in law enforcement agencies as well as military over the last 20 years. Before the early 2000's, there were no teams in the military dedicated to tactical medicine. However, in 2003, the Special Operations Surgical Team was formed in the Air Force, with the purpose of providing far-forward medical support to ...
9-1-1 emergency dispatch center. An emergency medical dispatcher is a professional telecommunicator, tasked with the gathering of information related to medical emergencies, the provision of assistance and instructions by voice, prior to the arrival of emergency medical services (EMS), and the dispatching and support of EMS resources responding to an emergency call.
Equipment and procedures are necessarily limited in the pre-hospital environment, and EMS professionals are trained to follow a formal and carefully designed decision tree (more commonly referred to as a "protocol") which has been approved by Medical Control. This protocol helps ensure a consistent approach to the most common types of ...
The National Weather Service issued the warning for northern San Mateo County and parts of downtown San Francisco, just before 6 a.m. until 6:15 a.m. According to the NWS, there was a cyclonic ...
Emergency Medical Responder (Not recognized by the Arkansas Department of Health, certification issued by local EMS Authorities and/or the Arkansas Fire Training Academy) [5] Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) [6] Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) [6] Paramedic [6] Community Paramedic [5]
Baltimore infielder Jorge Mateo left Sunday's game against Tampa Bay and entered concussion protocol after he was hit by a bat as teammate Cedric Mullins loosened up. Both players were in the area ...
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