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Continue Your Education
Thank you Emergency Medical Services instructors and providers! Education Day seeks to highlight community educational programs, as well as the importance of continuing education for EMS providers.
This is a perfect day to learn new things or just refresh your skills. We suggest checking out this Alaska Children's Justice Act Task Force training on Mandatory Child Abuse Reporting in Alaska. As an EMS provider you are required by State law (A.S.47.17.020) to report child maltreatment. This course will help you understand all the necessary actions in mandatory reporting, will test your knowledge, and supply you with a CME certificate.
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Share the Mental Load
EMS workers are prone to injury especially working in the sometimes austere conditions that can be seen here in Alaska. Looking at a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) report that was released in 2017, most EMS workers were injured by a means that could have been prevented.
These were listed as injuries caused by body motion while lifting and moving a patient, slips, trips and falls, exposures to harmful substances, motor vehicles, and violent assaults, all of these caused injuries to EMS providers while they were performing their tasks associated with their jobs.
We want everyone to have a long and healthy career both physically and spiritually, please let’s all work together in improving our work safety habits to and improve our mental and physical health environments.
A great resource for our, EMS provider’s mental health well-being is The Code Green Campaign.
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Alaska Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC)
The mission of the EMSC program is to reduce child and youth mortality and morbidity resulting from illness or trauma. Long-term success is measured by assessing the quality of pediatric emergency care provided in the prehospital and hospital settings, and integrating pediatric emergency care within the larger emergency medical service (EMS) system. National EMS for Children Day places a spotlight on the delivery of high-quality emergency medical care for children, focusing on the unique needs of critically ill or injured pediatric patients and the challenges faced by EMS professionals in meeting those needs. The EMS for Children program is working with EMS leaders nationwide to ensure that all children - no matter where they live, attend school, or travel, receive the best care possible in an emergency situation.
Special EMSC Day Celebration Webinar--
Prehospital Care of Children: Review of Evidence-Based Guidelines on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 9am (Alaska)
As prehospital professionals, we want to make patient care decisions based upon the best evidence available to improve patient outcomes. In this webinar, we will review the prehospital pediatric evidence-based guidelines for the management of asthma, seizures, pain, and cardiac arrest. Register for the EMSC Day Webinar here.
More about: National EMSC and Alaska EMSC.
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Early Bystander CPR
A few years ago an individual attending the Alaska State fair went into cardiac arrest. A bystander witnessed the arrest, rushed to the patient’s aid and immediately began Hands-Only CPR. 911 was called, EMS responded and the patient achieved Return of Spontaneous Circulation (ROSC).
This successful outcome was due in part by the early bystander CPR. Where did this bystander learn Hands-Only CPR? They had attended one of the Hands-Only CPR classes taught at the fair by Mat Su Borough EMS and Mat Su Regional Medical Center earlier that day!
This is only one example of an Alaska EMS agency providing outreach to increase chances of survival in their community. Click on the link below to learn how you can conduct Hands-Only CPR classes in your community to help increase cardiac arrest survival rates.
CPR Challenge
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Honor Your Peers
Please take time today to nominate individuals in your community for an Alaska EMS Award. These awards honor special advocacy, meritorious acts, heroic acts, innovations or new approaches to improve EMS in the state, or other unique and/or significant contributions by EMS personnel, physicians, nurses, EMTs, other medical providers, local officials, members of the law enforcement community, citizens, and first responders.
Please complete the nomination form ONLINE before July 31st. EMS award category descriptions can be found on the form or on the EMS Awards webpage.
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Thank you for your dedication and commitment to your patients and community! |
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