Enhancing EMS Practice Through Data and Performance Improvement

The Duke Endowment, NC OEMS , NC EMS Administrators, and the EMSPIC are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for North Carolina EMS.

RALEIGH – North Carolina patients with a life threatening illness or injury will have a better chance of survival through a $2.15-million grant awarded this month by The Duke Endowment to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.

Each year, EMS systems provide emergency care to more than 1.1 million people in North Carolina, of whom 7,500 will have suffered a cardiac arrest and another 100,000 will have a condition that could develop into cardiac arrest or require aggressive treatment and monitoring. Across the county-based EMS systems in North Carolina, cardiac arrest survival rates vary from as low as 5 percent to as high as 40 percent. The national average survival rate for an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is less than 7 percent.

This grant will provide medical devices to EMS agencies and assist EMS professionals in rapidly identifying patients who are experiencing a life threatening event as well as provide vital information guiding the correct treatment. These devices also can assist EMS in identifying which patients require hospitals specializing in heart, stroke, trauma, or intensive care.

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North Carolina Office of EMS, The Duke Endowment, NC EMS and EMSPIC featured in JEMS E NEWSLETTER EMS INDUSTRY NEWS.

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