For the fourth year running, EMS data/software company ESO has released its annual comprehensive analysis of how 2,000-plus U.S. EMS agencies have performed in key areas of interest to researchers. Its 2021 ESO EMS Index analyzed information from 8.8 million 9-1-1 calls during the pandemic year of 2020, with the goal of helping EMS agencies compare their performance to their peers. The Index also provides best-practice recommendations around the six metrics it measured to help agencies improve.
Here is an overview of this year’s findings.
Stroke Assessments Up
About 140,000 Americans die from strokes each year, according to the CDC. Someone in the U.S. has a stroke every 40 seconds.
“Samantha, I run this acronym through my head on every call. Actually, I run it over and over again even if the scene is normal, but especially if it’s chaotic or confusing. And after the call when I’m writing the report. If there’s an EMS secret that makes sure I don’t miss the basics, this is it.”
There are things we need to consider on every call, medical or trauma. Here’s where I start: Never skip the basics. Any organization, from sports teams to the military to EMS, can get in trouble if it strays from the basics.
In late December and early January, two members of Oklahoma’s Elk City Fire & EMS, Chief Medical Officer Kyle Chervenka and Assistant Chief Medical Officer Brian Pierce, began helping the Beckham County Health Department with its COVID-19 vaccine pods. We quickly turned into “shot-givers” who met with them every Wednesday in January, February, and March.
After the first day of shot-giving, we realized there was going to be a large population we couldn’t reach: the homebound and elderly who couldn’t stand in lines or maybe even figure out a computer to set up appointments. We determined Elk City Fire & EMS was set up perfectly to help this underserved population, so by mid-January we’d started the paperwork process to begin in-home vaccinations.
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