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Hello everyone. The Alameda County EMS Agency is pleased to launch a new ALCO EMS Blog today. This blog will replace the EMS Newsletter we’ve been producing for you for many years. Adopting this new format presents us with an opportunity to provide much more information and content than we’ve been able to provide in the past. It will allow us to be more timely – as opposed to waiting for a quarterly newsletter format – and will also allow for various kinds of media we were not able to provide before. That includes videos, podcasts, and the ability to be interactive with our EMS partners. Previous entries will be stored long term on the site for easy reference. Our Field Manual will also be found here. We hope you enjoy this new format. We believe it will be useful and informative. Let us know if you have any suggestions for how we can improve it or add to it. As always, thank you for all the great work you do every day.
Fred Claridge
EMS Director
 Mechanical Chest Compressions and SimultaneousDefibrillation vs Conventional Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Out-of Hospital Cardiac Arrest: The LINC Randomized Trial.
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It isn’t often we get to take the time to recognize a crew for truly heroic actions in saving a life – let alone the lives of an entire family. To summarize the reported to me by paramedic Rebecca Foster would strip it from the drama and energy that took place. One of the dynamics of this incident is that it occurred on Father’s Day – which, under other circumstances, could have turned out very differently for this family of four.
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Did you know that Alameda County Emergency Medical Services Department has a Childhood Injury Prevention Program (CIPP)? Through community partnerships, CIPP strives to prevent unintentional deaths and injuries to children from birth through 18. Free education and fun events for parents and youth are offered in the following unintentional injury areas
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It is a daunting thing for a newly minted EMT Basic to walk into a event full of EMS directors, ED docs, flight nurses and paramedics who are gathered to exchange ideas and lessons. It is also an incredibly valuable one.
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