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EMSResponder.com is the online home of EMS Magazine. Our online publication provides EMS news and training for paramedics and EMTs, as well as other prehospital practitioners and public safety responders. We serve members of all EMS delivery models including fire-based EMS, municipal EMS agencies, volunteer EMS agencies and private EMS services.


Featured Articles


The EMS Voluntary Event Notification Tool provides a way for EMS providers to anonymously report adverse events.
Trauma simulations let field providers work alongside nurses, physicians.
Dealing With Downtime: What's the most productive way to spend intervals between calls?
Prehospital assessment and management of traumatic carotid artery dissection and mild traumatic brain injuries.



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EMS Training Center

First Responders and the 'Silver Hour'
Marilyn Smith-Stoner, RN, PhD, & Chris Miller, MICP, MSCP
What should providers know about dealing with death in the field--and the loved ones left behind?
Skills Station: Drug Overdose Considerations
Paul Murphy, MHSA, MA
When it comes to a drug overdose call, EMS providers must consider a variety of factors ranging from determining what drug was involved to a potential treatment plan.
Research Study Identifies Interoception in Elderly Heart Failure Patients
Results reveal the ability to detect and interpret disease symptoms can diminish with age. What does this mean for your geriatric patients?

The Corner Office

Budget Basics
Michelle Hector & Brian Hector
Tips for developing an accurate budget to keep your agency on track.
Customer Service Excellence: Part 2
Andrew T. Caruso
Making a difference does not have to mean saving a life or doing something heroic. It can be accomplished with a simple touch, gesture or quiet statement.

EMS On The Hill

EMS On The Hill

EMS Top Innovations

EMS EXPO's Top Innovation Awards recognizes companies exhibiting at EMS EXPO that have produced innovative new products or products that have seen significant changes. Click here to see previous winners.

Hot Products

Reading Room

A pediatric surgeon twice deployed to Iraq is forever haunted by the images of war, injury and death.


Podcasts & Videos

Mike Rubin interviews Chief Terry Shaffer with the Shanksville (PA) Volunteer Fire Department, who responded to the United Airlines Flight 93 crash on 9/11.
Re-learning neutral spine position allows your body to rediscover a normal and efficient posture.
View this video lecture by John Puryear, EMT-P, and pass the quiz at RapidCE.com to earn .5 CE hours.
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