News & Announcements

Prehospital Emergency Care, the official journal of NAEMSP, is now a fully online publication. The latest issue (1/3/2023) is currently available. For more information on accessing PEC, please visit our Prehospital Emergency Care webpage.

Our friend and colleague Susan McHenry recently passed away with her family and friends by her side. As part of NHTSA, Susan was a longtime NAEMSP partner and the recipient of NAEMSP’s Keith Neely Outstanding Contribution to NAEMSP Award in 2018. She will be remembered not only for the outsize impact she made in the EMS field, but also for the warmth and kindness that drove her to serve her community and field. Susan, thank you for all you’ve done – we will miss you greatly.

The patient boarding crisis means EMS crews often have extended waits to hand off patients in saturated EDs in order to return to service for their next call. Our system is failing. Read more in this joint letter to the White House from ACEP, NAEMSP and 30+ other medical specialty organizations.

It’s not too late to register for NAEMSP 2023 in Tampa, Florida! Join us January 23-25 for preconference workshops and January 26-28 for regular sessions. Browse the schedule and register now!

Browse the schedule and register now for NAEMSP 2023 in Tampa, Florida! Join us January 23-25 for preconference workshops—including a free one-day Resuscitation Academy for advanced providers—and January 26-28 for regular sessions.

NAEMSP member Brooke Lerner, PhD, FAEMS was recently diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. As Dr. Lerner’s family, friends, and the EMS community gathered to support her, she expressed the desire to promote the growth of EMS by establishing a research fund for early career researchers. NAEMSP has created the E. Brooke Lerner Research Fund to realize Dr. Lerner’s vision and honor her commitment to EMS research and researchers.

Comprehensive certification processes and active EMS physician oversight are essential to high-quality EMS care. NAEMSP opposes NREMT's Resolution on Updated Eligibility Criteria for Initial EMS Education as written.

The Pediatric EMS Podcast provides case-based discussion with evidence-based recommendations by content experts in prehospital pediatric medicine to advance the care of children outside the hospital. In their first episode, hosts Dr. Joseph Finney and Dr. Joelle Donofrio-Odmann talk about safely and effectively managing pain in our pediatric patients.

EMS professionals respond to emergencies wherever they occur—including conflict and disaster zones. In support of our members and colleagues working around the clock to provide emergency medical care in Ukraine and the surrounding countries, NAEMSP encourages monetary donations to well-established international organizations such as:

• Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF): Learn about this organization’s medical humanitarian response and donate here.
• International Medical Corps: Learn about this organization’s medical humanitarian response and donate here.

NAEMSP has had a position statement on the use of lights & siren (L&S) in EMS since 1994, but crashes related to L&S use continue to harm EMS practitioners, our patients, and the public.

The evidence and best practices for EMS use of L&S have progressed since then, and now NAEMSP has joined a broad consortium of 13 other organizations with interests in EMS, quality, and safety to update our previous position statement into a Joint Statement on L&S Vehicle Operations on EMS Responses.

This position statement reviews the principles of L&S use on EMS responses and the responsibilities of EMS medical directors, EMS agency managers, EMS vehicle operators, emergency medical dispatch, and local/state governments."

The January issue of Prehospital Emergency Care includes a publicly available compendium of position statements and resource documents on prehospital airway management.

Access the airway compendium now and get the who, what, why and how in our PEC Podcast series.