What is National Emergency Medical Services Week?
National EMS Week and Emergency Medical
Services for Children Day will feature
hundreds of grassroots activities
coast-to-coast that will support this year’s theme, “Your Life is Our
Mission.” These activities will recognize the commitment that emergency
medical personnel make to the communities they serve. Their dedication
provides round-the-clock care to communities across the nation. May 21,
2008 has been designated EMS for Children Day. On May 21, local communities
and medical personnel are encouraged to focus their EMS activities and
events on child safety and injury prevention.
Each year, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) develops and distributes EMS Week organizational kits to help communities plan and promote their own activities. Thanks to the support of CDC and others, the EMS Week kits (http://www.acep.org/emsweek) are free to the public.
This year, the organizational kit features lifesaving information that includes Bombings: Injury Patterns and Care, a course designed to provide the latest clinical information regarding blast-related injuries that are a result of terrorism. The course is available in multiple formats, including a CD-ROM/Web interactive scenario-based training. Bombings: Injury Patterns and Care is supported by CDC’s Terrorism Injuries Information, Dissemination and Exchange (TIIDE) Project. TIIDE was established through a cooperative agreement and links acute care and emergency medical services to state and local injury prevention programs for terrorism preparedness and response. Bombings: Injury Patterns and Care was developed by a team of experts from the following TIIDE grantee organizations.
- American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)*
- American College of Surgeons (ACS)*
- American Medical Association (AMA)*
- American Trauma Society (ATS)*
- National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)*
- National Association of Emergency Medical Service Physicians (NAEMSP)*
- National Native American Emergency Medical Services Association (NNAEMSA)*
- Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD)*
- State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association (STIPDA)*
* Links to non-Federal organizations found at this site are provided solely as a service to our users. These links do not constitute an endorsement of these organizations or their programs by CDC or the Federal Government, and none should be inferred. CDC is not responsible for the content of the individual organization Web pages found at these links.
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Page last modified: May 19, 2008