{"id":6491,"date":"2020-04-30T15:12:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T22:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6491"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:13:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T23:13:22","slug":"emergency-medical-services-resource-capacity-and-competency-amid-covid-19-in-the-united-states-preliminary-findings-from-a-national-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/30\/emergency-medical-services-resource-capacity-and-competency-amid-covid-19-in-the-united-states-preliminary-findings-from-a-national-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Medical Services resource capacity and competency amid COVID-19 in the United States: Preliminary findings from a national survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Preliminary findings from a national survey in the US suggest that Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers may inadvertently contribute to the COVID-19 transmission. The variety of knowledge of EMS providers on COVID-19 indicates that current pandemic education may be insufficient.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Providers may benefit from improved standardization in pandemic response, specifically with regard to clinical symptomatology recognition, origins of disease, a uniformed decontamination protocol, pandemic-specific inventory in-service, and stricter regulations and enforcement on decontamination of personal items, such as stethoscopes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ventura et al. (Apr 30, 2020). Emergency Medical Services resource capacity and competency amid COVID-19 in the United States: Preliminary findings from a national survey. Pre-print downloaded Apr 30 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.24.20073296\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.24.20073296<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary findings from a national survey in the US suggest that Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers may inadvertently contribute to the COVID-19 transmission. The variety of knowledge of EMS providers on COVID-19 indicates that current pandemic education may be insufficient. Providers may benefit from improved standardization in pandemic response, specifically with regard to clinical symptomatology&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/30\/emergency-medical-services-resource-capacity-and-competency-amid-covid-19-in-the-united-states-preliminary-findings-from-a-national-survey\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-6491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6492,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491\/revisions\/6492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6491"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}