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The Duke Endowment, NC OEMS , NC EMS Administrators, and the EMSPIC are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for North Carolina EMS. Grant from The Duke Endowment provides critical ambulance cardiac resuscitation equipment
RALEIGH – North Carolina patients with a life threatening illness or injury will have a better chance of survival through a $2.15-million grant awarded this month by The Duke Endowment to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. Each year, EMS systems provide emergency care to more than 1.1 million people in North Carolina, of whom 7,500 will have suffered a cardiac arrest and another 100,000 will have a condition that could develop into cardiac arrest or require aggressive treatment and monitoring. Across the county-based EMS systems in North Carolina, cardiac arrest survival rates vary from as low as 5 percent to as high as 40 percent. The national average survival rate for an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is less than 7 percent. This grant will provide medical devices to EMS agencies and assist EMS professionals in rapidly identifying patients who are experiencing a life threatening event as well as provide vital information guiding the correct treatment. These devices also can assist EMS in identifying which patients require hospitals specializing in heart, stroke, trauma, or intensive care. |
NEMSIS Version 3 Released February 8, 2010 - Advancing the EMS Electronic Medical Record February 8, 2010 marked an important event within the EMS Industry with the release of the National EMS Information System (NEMSIS) Version 3 Final Draft documents. After two years of collaborating and building consensus with the EMS community, the Final Draft of the NEMSIS Version 3 dataset was released on February 8, 2010. NEMSIS Version 3 represents a major enhancement of the Version 2 standard released in 2005. Click Here to Read More |
North Carolina EMS Data System Published in National Peer Reviewed Journal The January 2010 edition of Prehospital Emergency Care highlights the North Carolina EMS Data System. The article highlights the successful development of a fully integrated, statewide EMS data system for quality improvement of EMS service delivery and patient care in North Carolina. The article also provides a platform for linking EMS with emergency physicians, other health care providers, and public health agencies responsible for planning, disease surveillance, and disaster preparedness. The North Carolina EMS Data System applications include the Prehospital Medical Information System (PreMIS), the Credentialing Information System (CIS), the State Medical Asset Resource Tracking Tool (SMARTT), and the EMS Performance Improvement Toolkits. The system provides a quality and performance improvement program consistent with the idealized EMS design described in the EMS Agenda for the Future. The program has already achieved significant improvements in the quality of EMS service delivery, patient care, and integrated systems of care. |
 | The September 29th EMS Performance Improvement Center Webinar, How to Use and Apply the EMS Response Time Toolkit and EMS Data System Reports, is now available online for your convenience!
This exciting video is the first in a series of EMSPIC Webinars. Look forward to future opportunities that will be Regionally based with plenty of time for creative and two way exchange. This September 29th EMSPIC Webinar Video How to Use and Apply the EMS Response Time Toolkit and EMS Data System Reports highlights:
Those with High Speed Internet connections may Click Here to view the video in a larger format Those without High Speed Internet connections may Click Here to view the video in a reduced quality video format with normal sound quality Viewing these videos requires Microsoft Silverlight technology which is available for both Macintosh and Windows operating systems. If you do not have Silverlight installed on your machine, you may need to download it and install it from here: Get Silverlight
Questions? Call 1-866-773-6477 or email help@emspic.org |
 | NEW PreMIS Short and Long Patient Handoff Forms |
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New NC EMS Data Reports FAQ and Instructions
Beginning May 1, 2009 new North Carolina EMS Data Reports are available for all agencies in South Carolina. Click on the section below that you want to view: |
Free Online 12 Lead ECG Interpretation Course Available in North Carolina
Click Here for the FAQ and Instructions on how to access the course
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