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Red Lights to the Left of them, Blue to the right! – Coloring Emergency Lighting
April 7, 2010 | 911 fail, accident, Administration & Leadership, Ambulance, Ambulance Driver, Ambulance maintenance, ckemtp rants, code-3, Command & Leadership, drive fast, Emergency Medical Services, EMS, EMS Health & Safety, EMS Management, EMS rant, EMS safety, EMS Topics, Fire Rescue Topics, In the Line of Duty, Iowa, Iowa EMS, lights and sirens, Line of Duty, Management, politics, Technology & Communications, technology-communications-ems-topics, Vehicle Operation & Ambulances, Vehicle Operations & Apparatus, volunteer fire department, volunteer firefighter | Ckemtp | 45 Comments
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Ever pull over for a tow-truck or a snow plow? What’s up with the lack of a standard for emergency lighting colors? It’s confusing as heck..

Uh oh, is it that time again? EMS Recert Time Cometh…
November 20, 2009 | AHA, Emergency Medical Services, EMS, ems education, EMS Health & Safety, EMS Topics, EMS training, EMT, EMT-Intermediate, EMT-Paramedic Specialist, Iowa, Iowa EMS, Paramedic, paramedic education, Training & Development, wisconsin | Ckemtp | 5 Comments

I’ll betcha that a lot of you reading this are in the same boat that I am… Here’s the reminder! Yesterday I had the occasion to pull out all of my various certification cards and licenses, photocopy them, and turn them in to one of my departments for verification that I still had them. Much […]

Dear State of Illinois EMS…
October 28, 2009 | 911 fail, Administration & Leadership, change, ckemtp rants, Command & Leadership, crisis, edemse, Emergency Medical Services, EMS, ems 2.0, EMS ethics, EMS Management, EMS protocols, EMS system, EMS Topics, idph, illinois, Iowa, Iowa EMS, new perspective, northern illinois, Protocol development, southern wisconsin, wisconsin | Ckemtp | 13 Comments

State of Illinois EMS… We have to have a little talk. Can we save our relationship?

Something I found in the Iowa State EMS Protocols
October 26, 2009 | Administration & Leadership, Ambulance, Command & Leadership, Emergency Medical Services, EMS, ems 2.0, EMS protocols, EMS Topics, EMT-Paramedic Specialist, idph, Iowa, Iowa EMS, Paramedic, Protocol development, SMG, SMO | Ckemtp | 10 Comments

This is an excerpt from the newly released State of Iowa Statewide EMS protocols that I’d like to bring to the attention of the EMS blogosphere. Bravo to the State of Iowa for giving us the tools to improve the profession!