Ambulance Donations

An Ambulance Set to Pasture; Trek Medics Int’l ©2011 Updated Vitals: Ambulance Donations J. Friesen, Feb. 2, 2011 One of the more common development initiatives that EMS agencies undertake is the donation of ambulances. While at first this may seem like a worthwhile cause, realities on the ground offer significant evidence that these efforts can often be far more detrimental to a...

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EMS & the Global Burden of Traffic Injuries

Community Ambulance in Rural Africa; ©1998 Mark Piedra, with permission Mitigating the Global Burden of Road Traffic Injuries Should Low- and Middle-Income Countries Invest in Developing Prehospital Trauma Care Systems? By Jason Friesen, EMT-P Background: The Global Burden of Road Traffic Injuries In a 2005 report by the World Health Organization (WHO), injury was described as “one of the...

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Why EMS Abroad Is Important

Why EMS Abroad Is Important By Jason Friesen, NREMT-P _____________________________________________________________________ An amended version of this article was originally posted at EverydayEMSTips.com _____________________________________________________________________ As was described in a 2002 report by the World Health Organization (WHO), “Injury is one of the leading causes of...

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