Friday, 17 August 2018
Sentara Nightingale has flown more than 20,000 accident-free missions since its first flight on February 25, 1982. A flying ICU, Nightingale’s flight nurses and paramedics provide hospital-grade care while speeding critically ill and injured patients to the Level I trauma and tertiary referral center at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
Read more: Nightingale Regional Air Ambulance Celebrates 35th Anniversary
January 27, 2017 - Today the Tidewater Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Council announced immediate availability of the regional EMS protocol training videos, enabling EMS providers and agencies to begin the rollout process of the 12th edition of the regional protocols. The protocols and training videos are available 24/7 at www.tidewaterems.org/protocols.
The 2017 session of the Virginia General Assembly opened January 11 and adjourned on February 25. One additional session will be held on April 5 to consider any Governor vetos. The council tracked bills and resolutions of interest to the EMS community.
During the past several years the Tidewater EMS region and many places across the nation have worked to improve the outcome of patients experiencing ST-elevation myocardial infarction, or STEMI. Hospitals and emergency medical systems are organizing coordinated regional plans for STEMI diagnosis and rapid reperfusion. The work is being done through heart attack coalitions, and in our region the Eastern Virginia Heart Attack Coalition has achieved amazing success.
Read more: STEMI Accelerator Project improves cardiac outcomes – but there’s more to do
There are nearly 30 million victims of forced labor and human trafficking in a $150 billion industry globally. Unfortunately, the Hampton Roads region isn’t exempt from this activity. The Chesapeake Fire Department has focused on the issue of human trafficking. Their goals, and perhaps the goals that your EMS agency and fire department might set as well, are:
• To be cognizant of the subversive culture of sex and labor slavery and its existence in Hampton Roads
• To be mindful that this culture involves extremely dangerous criminals and horrendously victimized human beings
• To act as an organization in a manner that denies safe harbor for sex and labor criminal systems.
| Education and Training Committee Meeting Wed Aug 22 @ 9:30AM - 11:30AM |
| Office Closed - Labor Day Mon Sep 03 @12:00AM |
| Cardiac Grand Rounds Tue Sep 11 @ 7:00AM - 08:00AM |
| OMD Committee Meeting Tue Sep 11 @12:00PM - 02:00PM |
| Patient & Provider Safety PI Meeting Thu Sep 13 @ 1:00PM - 02:00PM |
| Trauma/Triage PI Meeting Thu Sep 13 @ 2:30PM - 03:30PM |
| Board of Directors Meeting Thu Sep 13 @ 6:00PM - 08:00PM |
| Education and Training Committee Meeting Wed Sep 19 @ 9:30AM - 11:30PM |
| TEMS Quarterly Drug/IV Box Inventory Wed Sep 19 @ 4:30PM - 04:31PM |
| Office Closed - Columbus Day Mon Oct 08 @12:00AM |
| NIMS ICS 400 Wed Aug 22 @ 8:30AM - 05:30PM |
| NIMS ICS 400 Thu Aug 23 @ 8:30AM - 05:30PM |
| Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) Sat Sep 08 @ 8:00AM - 04:00PM |
| Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) Sun Sep 09 @ 8:00AM - 04:00PM |
| Cardiac Grand Rounds Tue Sep 11 @ 7:00AM - 08:00AM |
| National Registry EMT Course Wed Sep 12 @ 6:00PM - 10:00PM |
| Consolidated Testing @ EVMS 09/29/2018 Sat Sep 29 @ 9:00AM - 05:00PM |
| NIMS ICS-300 TRAINING: WHO MUST TAKE IT, WHAT IT COVERS Tue Oct 23 @ 8:30AM - 05:30PM |
| NIMS ICS-300 TRAINING: WHO MUST TAKE IT, WHAT IT COVERS Wed Oct 24 @ 8:30AM - 05:30PM |
| Mass Casualty Incident Management - Module I Sat Oct 27 @ 9:00AM - 02:00PM |
