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A Tribute to EMS Week
A Healthy Respect for Modern EMS
National EMS Week - May 19-25, 2013
We at NAAMTA honor those in the EMS industry for a job well done, and earnestly acknowledge your time, talent, hard work, and continual dedication!
May 7, 2012 - American Fork, UT -- It is a grand pleasure and honor to again commend and thank the hundreds of thousands of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel who serve with distinction consistently 24/7 across the country. EMS, as recognized today, was unimaginable some 40 years ago. In the early 1970s we began identifying the existing system's deficiencies, from which we described remedies and developed a national consensus for new roles in the prehospital EMS, hospitals, and specialty Trauma and other advanced receiving centers. These would need to be developed and to fit together and operate as a “System.”
EMS personnel are the crucial front line participants of their Regional Trauma/EMS System. They respond under all imaginable conditions, stabilize and evaluate each patient’s condition and start the educated triage and transport on to advanced definite care. Today, EMS personnel are an integral part of the overall system, from planning, resource development, and training to evaluation and research. They perform the entire extra-hospital functions using both Basic and Advanced personnel, ground and air transports, and communications components.
EMS is the front line response for the “unheralded” routine of day-to-day emergencies everywhere. They are also the basis of response and patient care in major disasters like the most recent Boston Marathon Terrorist Bombing, where again in “Real Time” and on “Prime Time” the EMS performed in an exquisitely professional and remarkable manner.
I think it is also remarkable that the press and TV commentators now use the Trauma/EMSS vernacular both accurately and knowledgably. EMS names and terms like First Responder, EMT and Paramedic, Trauma Surgeon and Nurse, Emergency Physician and Nurse, Patient Response, Stabilization and Triage, to Level I Trauma and Pediatric Trauma Centers are reported in common and correct use. A subtle but sterling tribute to the recognition and respect the nationwide community has for its EMSS. Excellence in EMS personnel and the reliability of the EMSS is now a permanent expectation throughout our society. The work you do is a highly-respected positioned gained by hard work and excellence in performance.
I was appointed National Director of Emergency Medical Services System in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (DHEW) by President Gerald R. Ford in 1974. I was able to convince him to declare the first Emergency Medical Services Week on 4 November 1975. This established a national tradition that was later re-enforced by an EMS Week Proclamation, by President George H. W. Bush and changed the celebration week to May to parallel other national Trauma and EMS activities.
With Congratulations and Sincere Appreciation,
David R. Boyd, MDCM, FACS
NAAMTA Advisory Board Member
About NAAMTA
David R. Boyd, the reputed "Father of EMS," is an active member of NAAMTA's Advisory Board, a group of industry experts and professionals with diverse backgrounds in all elements of pre-hospital care and EMS management. NAAMTA is the new accreditation standard bearer for the medical transport industry, offering procedures that include guidelines for developing a quality management system focusing on transport safety, patient care, and continuous improvement. Since the company's inception in 2009, NAAMTA has made great strides in identifying key best practices to improve the standard of performance among EMS providers at a national and global level.
NAAMTA "Advantage" Newsletter
NAAMTA's Quarterly Newsletter "The ADVANTAGE" 1st Quarter 2013
We are pleased to release the 1st Quarter of 2013 edition of our newsletter "The Advantage."This newsletter will keep you up-to-date on the latest happenings of NAAMTA. Each issue will include a message from NAAMTA's Executive Director and Executive members.
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National Accreditation Alliance of Medical Transport Applications
NAAMTA is a service organization offering accreditation to Fixed-Wing, Rotor, Ground, and Aquatic medical transport services
We aspire to be an example of quality management and safety practices to the medical transport industry by establishing an under-lying value system whereby standards are developed, defined, monitored, and enforced
We embrace a higher standard where all who fall under the NAAMTA umbrella desire a work place of excellence, a place where safety and quality of care are paramount
We inspire people to be better through education and communication. We establish standards offering professional attitudes, using decision making processes, evaluating consequences and taking action, and continually seeking to improve quality
It is with progressive momentum that NAAMTA announces a partnership with the IAAA that will strengthen industry standards and ensure that medical transport accreditation encompasses the needs of domestic and international fixed-wing operators.
NAAMTA is ISO 9001:2008 Compliant
NAAMTA Passes with Flying Colors
On December 13, 2012, we tackled our first annual Surveillance ISO audit and came out on top! Receiving no “findings” or “non-conformities,” NAAMTA is fit and ready to take on another year of being fully compliant to the ISO 9001:2008 Certification Standards.
The “Father of Trauma and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems” has joined NAAMTA in the capacity of Advisor to the Executive Director. As Dr. Boyd joins our team, he brings with him the knowledge and expertise to help shape NAAMTA’s future. His recognition in the EMS industry is immeasurable.
American Fork, UTAH – 4 April 2012 – NAAMTA (National Accreditation Alliance of Medical Transport Applications) is excited to announce a milestone achievement in becoming certified to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2008 Quality Management System Certification.
Through this announced achievement, we demonstrate how important third-party review is, not only to our clients, but also to our own business goals and processes.
Re: Twin Transport - CAMTS 9th EditionMay 17, 2013
2:27PM
NRP also clearly states that in the instance of multiple gestation deliveries each infant should have its own dedicated team for resuscitation (and each child its own warmer, t-piece, ect). For those looking to site standards of care /practice this is one more widely recognized standard of care that supports separate devices for separate patients.
Completing the brief survey at [link] will help the SOTM Executive Committee with development of its strategic plan for the next three years and will help direct its priorities and resources.
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Mike B Michael T Bigham, MD, FAAP Clinical Assistant Professor, NEOMED Pediatric Critical Care Medical Director, Transport Services Akron Children's Hospital Akron, Ohio 330-543-8639
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Re: Quality Improvement ProgramMay 17, 2013
1:54PM
I would review the metrics on the AAP website and establish the quality items to oversee for your program.
Tammy Rush
Good afternoon, We are in the infancy stage regarding the development of our QI program for our Pediatric/Neonatal transport program. If anyone would be willing to share samples of their QI forms/tools/policy’s/etc… it would be greatly appreciated.
Quality Improvement ProgramMay 17, 2013
1:45PM
Good afternoon, We are in the infancy stage regarding the development of our QI program for our Pediatric/Neonatal transport program. If anyone would be willing to share samples of their QI forms/tools/policy's/etc... it would be greatly appreciated.
For those programs that have a formal QI Transport Committee, can you share who sits on that committee and how often it meets?
Re: Twin Transport - CAMTS 9th EditionMay 17, 2013
12:29PM
One consideration if you have the space for the personnel would be to take 3 people from your institution (would need to be someone with critical airway skills) and leave one there to assist the referral center. The transport medical director should stay in touch with the referral staff as well and that would
Re: Twin Transport - CAMTS 9th EditionMay 17, 2013
12:18PM
Irregardless of an institution's policy the standard of care should be the same. Its about safety first, second and last in this arena. We have the public's trust and their children in our hands. I realize however that it can tax teams physically and in other ways at times. Some teams have gotten really creative in
Va. man charged in theft, crash of ambulance May 16, 2013
9:27AM
NORFOLK, Va. — A drunken man stole an ambulance and crashed into five cars Tuesday night. WVEC.com reported that Lamont Davis, 25, got into the private ambulance that was parked at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and drove off. After driving off, he crossed a median, crashed near an intersection and got out of the vehicle and ran off, according to the report. “I thought it was a bomb or ...
