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EMS Magazine
Public Health Perspectives - an Emerging Role for EMS
Instead of scrambling to keep up with all those 9-1-1 calls, how about getting out in front of them and stopping them before they happen? That's not traditionally been the role of EMS - we're reactive, not proactive - but in this special section, we examine how it could be. With a greater embrace of the public health component of their roles, EMS providers can help people identify and better manage their conditions and diseases and make healthier choices in their lives...
University of Pittsburgh Facets Magazine
Emergency Medicine Makes a Housecall
When the Emed Health program was initiated eight years ago through the Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania, Prehospital Care at UPMC, and the Pennsylvania Emergency Medicine Foundation, its charge was to retrain underutilized EMTs so they could begin to conduct home visits as part of widespread injury prevention and disease management programs for those in need... Prehospital Emergency Care
Influenza Immunizations Provided by EMS Agencies: The MedicVax Project
Emergency medical services (EMS) agencies may be an underutilized resource for provision of preventive health services. This study sought to demonstrate... Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Paramedics Work to Avert Emergencies
Asthma attacks have often sent a wheezing Jennifer Ramsey on frightening trips to the emergency room... Community Health Challenge
Emed Health Provides Disease Management Services
Emed Health, a division of the non-profit Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania, Inc., is developing and piloting programs in disease managment for asthma, diabetes, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease... Trauma Rounds
Prevention and Disease Management: Future EMS Role?
The Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania has launched a program to study and develop methods for EMS agencies to deliver preventive health and disease management services... ACEP EMS Week 2006 Planning Guide
Pittsburgh Prepares for Bioterrorism Response with Flu Shot Drill
If predictions of avian flu are correct, or if terrorists unleash a deadly bioagent in a major urban area, one of the first lines of defense will likely be mass immunization...
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Mike Parlak doesn’t have diabetes, and after completing Emed Health’s Diabetes Prevention Program, he’s much less likely to develop this increasingly prevalent disease. Mike knew he was overweight and had high cholesterol, but he didn’t know he had an elevated fasting glucose level and several other risk factors that increased his chances for developing diabetes. “My doctor has been after me to lose weight and exercise more, but I had no idea I was at such high risk for developing diabetes,” Mike said.