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Welcome to “News From MEPARS”
This is our first in a series of newsletters highlighting lessons
learned from the cases reported to MEPARS. These will be
appearing on an irregular basis as cases are reported to the
system.

In This Issue
• IV hazards, Worms in EMS
• Handoffs are high risk
• Meet the Editors

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Posted by Dr. Bob Gwinn at 03:58 PM | Permalink

Due to a huge amounts of spam polluting the message board we have removed this feature from the website. We are indeed sorry that this is necessary.

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This presentation was given by Dr Terry Fairbanks of The University of Rochester at the 2007 meeting of the National Association of EMS Physicians in January of 2007. It includes a discussion of the system factors that may contribute to a medical adverse event and also discussion of several of the MEPARS cases from a systems perspective. Thank you to Dr Fairbanks for sharing his presentation.

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Posted by Dr. Bob Gwinn at 01:58 PM | Permalink

The National Association of EMS Physicians has recently published new position statements on Alternative Airways in the out of hospital setting and Intraosseous Vascular Access in the out of hospital setting. Both of these papers can be found at: http://www.naemsp.org/position.html

Posted by Dr. Bob Gwinn at 01:52 PM | Permalink

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