emergency-medical-services

Giving whole blood or the component parts of blood are equally effective options for paramedics and emergency medical technicians to use in treating patients with severe, traumatic bleeding before arriving at the hospital, according to a large, nationwide trial directed by University of Pittsburgh and UPMC clinicians and scientists.

A Discrete Event System (DES) simulation and optimization model is proposed for the ambulance allocation problem in an Emergency Medical Service (EMS) system. The accuracy of the proposed model is enhanced by estimation of input parameters using Poisson mixture distribution and the Expectation Maximization Algorithm. The results are proven by Mann Whitney and Kolmogorov Smirnov tests. The DES mod…

The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) has supported the creation of both Virginia’s first emergency medical technician (EMT) registered apprenticeship program and Virginia’s first registered paramedic apprenticeship program. […] The post Expanding Registered Apprenticeship in the EMS Sector appeared first on Institute for Advanced Learning and Research .