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July 2012
Forensic Emergency Medicine, defined as the application of forensic medical knowledge and appropriate techniques to living patients (Roswell), integrates forensic best practices with emergency services responsibilities.  As the popularity of forensics continues to grow, more and more first responders are being asked to play an active role in evidence collection, scene assessment (assault, criminal) and protection of evidence during a medical evaluation.  In fact, the importance of forensics in pre hospital care has become so important that we have updated our curriculum to include a brief introduction to forensics training.  The additional curriculum features a Do's & Don't's lecture and simulated training exercise conducted in our new forensic laboratory apartment scenario.  The call will be recorded on video and an after action review will take place to help improve student response.

 

Forensic Emergency Medicine also incorporates a multidisciplinary approach to helping victims.  With forensics, professionals with unique expertise (EMTs, law enforcement, nurses, etc.) must know how to interface with one another for the best patient outcomes.  This is accomplished by offering healthcare professionals the same base level of forensic preparedness training as we do our law enforcement professionals.  A standard baseline ensures continuity in processes and techniques and reduces the cost, error and probability of inappropriate acquittals.  Interested in learning more, please join us in November for the Forensics Healthcare seminar as we explore and define the relationship between healthcare and forensics from crime scene to trial. (Please note: this program has not been approved for coned credits and is not applicable for the Emergency Services Subscription Program).


 

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'Headache' found to be a symptom of much more serious condition

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It's a Thursday afternoon, and you're dispatched to a local substance abuse rehabilitation facility for a person complaining of a headache. While en route, you and your partner discuss how many times you've responded to this facility for calls that don't seem legitimate.
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Stroke care faster when EMS calls in en route

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Stroke patients get faster, better treatment when paramedics send word ahead to alert the hospital that they are coming -- a practice recommended in guidelines, but still not done in about a third of cases, researchers found <READ MORE>


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