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Following five strategies, Skidmore College EMS tripled their fundraising goal. Consider adopting these strategies to maximize returns on your next campaign.

EC-ERT created a program called “Continued Care” (CC) to provide a prehospital care resource for patients who required additional time to monitor their condition until care could be terminated. Through its design and implementation, CC reduces non-emergent ALS transports, thus reducing strain on the county EMS system and local emergencies rooms.

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Illini EMS created and implemented an online Orientation course for new members. Using a combination of original and adapted videos followed by a quiz, this self-paced program teaches and assesses the basics of topics including bleeding control, organizational structure, team dynamics, and First Responder mental health in under an hour.

The JCEMS Team reflects on the challenges of 2020, the courage and compassion of collegiate EMS providers, and the next steps for the collegiate EMS community to move forward.

While EMS professionals have not received any training in human trafficking, they are in a unique position to identify trafficked persons, gaining a view of the patient’s out-of-hospital environment not visible to most other healthcare providers.

The authors examine the case of a previously healthy 19-year-old university student and e-cigarette user who was diagnosed with COVID-19.

Renko et al. create a model to predict patient volumes at collegiate football games to help aid EMS in planning.

Bystander CPR has been shown to significantly improve survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), yet rates of bystander CPR remain low across the United States. This paper outlines a brief HOCPR training that was successfully implemented by a collegiate-based EMS agency.

Student volunteer EMS providers are often under significant mental and physical stress which may lead to provider burnout and decreased compassion malleability. The authors demonstrate the efficacy of Cognitively-Based Compassion Training on addressing these conditions.