What contributions to the National Parks Service(NPS)/Sequoia Kings
National Park (SEKI) EMS have been made over the years?
A) Standardized NPS Patient Care Report - created through our program, this document
has been revised and adopted for use throughout the National Park Service.
B) Standardized EMT-Basic and Parkmedic protocols – originally produced
by our program for SEKI, these protocols have been revised with national input
and are currently in draft form for NPS-wide application.
C) January course – this six week course has trained the majority of the
Parkmedics in the NPS.
D) EMS database – initially designed for local use at SEKI, this database
is currently being incorporated into a NPS-wide EMS/SAR (Search and Rescue) database.
E) NPS/EMS conferences – Dr.’s Shalit and Stroh, as well as many
of the Parkmedic residents, have attended, presented, and facilitated sessions
at these national conferences.
F) Research – many publications have been generated from this program.
There is always an ongoing list of current research projects/scholarly activities.
Residents have the opportunity to join existing projects or develop their own
research projects based on personal interest in specific areas of EMS and wilderness
medicine.
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