Understanding Healthcare

Everyone’s looking for ways to cut costs these days, but the FDNY has taken it a bit too far. According to the NY Daily News, Assistant Chief of EMS John McFarland recently cancelled all tune-ups on the department’s LifePak 12 defibrillators and cardiac monitors and ordered that all expired units are to be kept in
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Filed under: Focus on Healthcare by Administrator

Tags: defibrillators, ems, emt, fdny, healthcare, lifepack, rescue, scam

Worried parents heard all the hype about the H1N1 Swine flu. They waited in line with their kids for hours to get one of the precious vaccine doses. They thought they could finally relax. Now there’s a recall.
The good news is that the vaccine recall is not a safety issue. 800,000 pediatric vaccine doses are
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Tags: Flu Shots, H1N1 Vaccine, Recall, Swine Flu

AEDs (Automatic External Defibrillator) have been hitting headlines recently… saving lives when they are available, and prompting lawsuits when they are not.
As one of the leading causes of death in the United States, SCA (Sudden Cardiac Arrest) claims more than 310,000 lives every year . The tragedy is that most of these deaths are preventable.
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Filed under: Focus on Healthcare by Jack - Editor

Tags: AED, cpr, defibrillators, doctor, exam, healthcare, paramedic

Salt Lake City Utah is facing a difficult decision after their ambulance service contractor Southwest Ambulance said they are losing money. They plan to renegotiate before renewing the contract that expires in December.
So Salt Lake is proposing that the Fire Department provide 911 service. Right now the city cannot afford the services. It could be
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