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Design more effective emergency medical services (EMS) systems with the guidelines and expert recommendations in NFPA 450.

Make your local EMS system as effective and proficient as possible. To serve the public and support first responders, pre-hospital care must be skillfully coordinated and provisioned. The comprehensive 2021 edition of NFPA 450, Guide for Emergency Medical Services and Systems, provides the guidelines, resources, and recommendations you need to comprehensively develop and design your EMS system.

This document can be used as a template when developing an EMS system, as well as during the evaluation of measurable outcomes. It provides a framework for evaluating systems and making improvements to create the best possible EMS procedures.

NFPA 450 reflects the rapidly changing health care environment and the importance of effective EMS services. With the recent changes to the Affordable Care Act and an increasing need to collect and report data, NFPA 450 puts greater emphasis on the current demands facing health care and EMS responders.

Significant changes and additions to the 2021 edition of NFPA 450 include the following:

  • Alignment with the newly published NFPA 451, Guide for Community Health Care Programs
  • Further focus on EMS and 9-1-1 systems and less focus on community/mobile health care (now covered by NFPA 451)
  • Clarification of medical control structures and requirements
  • Updates regarding new EMS technologies and data reporting initiatives
  • A new chapter on training for new EMS responders and licensed EMS providers

NFPA 450 correlates with other federal EMS documents and is consistent with commonly used terminology in the EMS community. Everyone working on EMS systems, from local stakeholders to owners and staff of organizations, should use the latest edition. (Print, Approx. 40 pp., 2021)

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Published:
10/25/2020
Number of Pages:
44

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Protect lives by designing and evaluating emergency medical services systems using the guidelines and recommendations in the 2013 NFPA 450.

To serve the public and support first responders, effective provision of pre-hospital care requires the coordination and cooperation of disparate elements. To address all the diverse factors, NFPA 450: Guide for Emergency Medical Services and Systems provides guidelines, resources, and recommendations to help those interested or involved in comprehensive EMS systems development and/or design. This document also provides a framework for evaluating systems and making improvements based on that evaluation.

Changes to this latest edition ensure correlation with other federal EMS documents and consistency with commonly used terminology in the EMS community, including:

  • Clarifying the foundation of NFPA 450 and its ties with the EMS Agenda for the Future
  • Clearly defining what on-line and off-line (direct and in-direct) medical direction is, and is not
  • Specifying how medical oversight is to be used in an EMS system

Essential for agencies that are looking to establish an EMS, this document will be useful as a template when developing an EMS system as well as in the evaluation of measurable outcomes. Everyone from local stakeholders to owners and staff of agencies and organizations, needs the latest edition of NFPA 450.

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Published:
06/18/2012
ISBN(s):
9781455904310

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Design effective emergency medical services (EMS) systems with the guidelines and expert recommendations in NFPA 450.

Make sure your local EMS system is one of the best. To serve the public and support first responders, effective provision of pre-hospital care requires the coordination and cooperation of disparate elements. The comprehensive 2017 edition of NFPA 450: Guide for Emergency Medical Services and Systems provides the guidelines, resources, and recommendations you need for comprehensive EMS systems development and/or design.

This document is useful as a template when developing an EMS system as well as in the evaluation of measurable outcomes. It provides a framework for evaluating systems and making improvements based on that evaluation.

Essential for agencies looking to establish an EMS system, the 2017 edition of NFPA 450:

  • Reflects changes in the delivery of healthcare services as a result of the Affordable Care Act
  • Adds new coverage for Mobile Integrated Healthcare and Community Paramedicine — growing areas in the delivery of EMS
  • Includes greater emphasis on the importance of the Chain of Survival
  • Covers the issue of addressing public health as part of an EMS system, in response to recent health-related events
  • Highlights data collecting and the reporting of that data
  • Features updated references throughout

NFPA 450 correlates with other federal EMS documents and is consistent with commonly used terminology in the EMS community. Everyone from local stakeholders to owners and staff of agencies and organizations needs the latest edition.

Product Details

Published:
06/02/2016
ISBN(s):
9781455914036
Number of Pages:
42

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