WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: July 24, 2014 Featuring: Kedar Mate, MD, Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement David Williams, PhD, Improvement Advisor and Founder, TrueSimple Jonathan R. Studnek, PhD, NRP, Quality Improvement Manager, Mecklenburg EMS Agency (North Carolina) Kevin Rooney, MBChB, FRCA, FFICM, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine; Professor of Care Improvement, University of the West of Scotland When it comes to reliability, it’s hard to beat the track record of paramedics and EMTs. Whether it’s speed, knowing just what to do in the event of an accident, serious injury, gun violence, or heart attack, or the amazingly calm and reassuring way  emergency responders go about their work, there are plenty of reasons to heap praise on this group of individuals. This also includes how patients are cared for during that ambulance ride to the hospital emergency department.   Could our opinion of EMTs get even higher? Maybe so, now that emergency medical services (EMS) are becoming part of