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NJ-ACEP continues to have a significant presence
in EMS in New Jersey. Dr. Jennifer Waxler currently serves
as chair and Dr. Larry DesRochers serves as the vice-chair
of the MICU advisory committee. There are also multiple
ACEP members who attend this quarterly meeting. It is for
this reason that most of our committee work takes place
and is part of this meeting.
After much work, the new state EMS regulations
are in the process of final publication. Some errors have
been found and corrected in that process. Included in that
was the error regarding a requirement for BLS for medical
command.
It was also voted on at the last MICU Advisory
meeting that the definition of Board Certification in the
state regulations will be ABEM and AOBEM.
The state is also moving toward having an
electronic charting system that would be available for all
ALS units. This would facilitate large amounts of data collection
for individual sites and the state for its quarterly and
annual reports.
EMS week was in May. Please congratulate the
EMS award winner for NJ-ACEP, Elliot Justin, and take time
to view the State EMS award winners at the following web
address:
http://www.state.nj.us/health/ems/awardrece2004.pdf
Also underway is the development and implementation
of EMS Task Force regions within the state. Basically, these
would be pools of equipment and personnel, able to respond
quickly to a large scale EMS emergency within the state
or our neighboring states. The idea would be that if there
is an incident in the Southern part of the state, overwhelming
it, the Northern or Central Task Forces would respond to
assist. For more information see the below web address:
http://www.state.nj.us/health/ems/taskforce.htm
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