Summary: Solar ambulances saving money, telemedicine video conferencing reducing EMS call volumes, and what would you do if you were preparing a team for the annual JEMS Games at EMS Today? If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast.<br> The MedicCast is a proud member of the <a title="ProMed Network site" href="http://promednetwork.com/" target="_blank">ProMed Podcast Network</a>.<br> <a href="http://studentloangroup.us/podcast"></a>This episode is sponsored in part by our student loan consolidation and forgiveness partners at <a href="http://StudentLoanGroup.us/podcast" target="_blank">StudentLoanGroup.us/podcast</a>. And also brought to you by <a title="Med Math Book" href="http://medmathsimplified.com" target="_blank">Med Math Simplified</a>. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on <a title="Amazon Med Math Simplified link" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=med%20math%20simplified&linkCode=ur2&sprefix=med%20mat%2Caps%2C169&tag=themediccastp-20&url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&linkId=PEOAZ4JTRW3TJGOA">Amazon.com</a>.<br> MedicCast Episode 479<br> Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this episode, we look at three segments recorded at EMS Today 2016 in Baltimore back at the end of February. We interview two of the EMS 10 Awardees about their innovative improvements on EMS care in their systems.<br> I also chat with JEMS Games team captain Jerry Brenner who got a team together and trained them to compete in the annual JEMS Games at EMS Today 2016 this year. All of these segments were recorded thanks to Physio-Control and their sponsorship of this program. We’ll have all three of those segments coming up in this special episode of the MedicCast.<br> —<br> EMS Tip of the Week: Solar Ambulance Fleets<br> <a href="http://www.raaems.org" rel="attachment wp-att-11152"></a>First up this week is a look at what you can do to make your service’s ambulance fleet greener. No, I’m not talking about a new coat of paint. I’m talking about going to solar ambulance fleets in this EMS10 innovator award. Dan Fellows is the Fleet Manager of the <a href="http://www.raaems.org" target="_blank">Richmond Ambulance Authority</a>. The story of RAA’s fleet development and strategy has been told many times and how it has evolved into a reliable, robust and mission ready set of vehicles. Dan Fellows is the architect of this success. Dan Fellows has been the architect of that success as he has applied sound management, leadership and innovation to the development of fleet services. His addition of solar panels to the entire fleet of ambulances created savings in fuel and maintenance costs for his system. Check it out.<br> Next up in our coverage of the EMS10 awardees is a look at what one medical director is doing to manage non-emergency EMS patients in his system using telemedicine resources. David Persse developed a unique, innovative, technology-based program in December 2014 – called ETHAN (Emergency Telehealth and Navigation Program) in the Houston Fire Dept that uses advanced telehealth technologies and community-based resources to reduce excessive primary care related 9-1-1 calls and get the patients to the correct medical appointment location or treatment facility. “ETHAN” utilizes all department response units, a central control console staffed by a physician and two-way Panasonic video and data computers to put the patient, control physician and crew in instant two-way contact to assess, divert and properly channel the patient to the right medical facility and release EMS resources to handle higher priority calls.
