In September 2017, the FIRST Center was awarded a $1.5 million dollar grant by FEMA for the project, “Stress and Violence in fire-based EMS Responders (SAVER),” which responds to seven of FEMA’s ...

We made this assumption based on the nature of EMS work. Another 183 subjects (10 ... divorced were more likely to have had posttraumatic stress than were single and married subjects (P<0.001).

The setting of this study provided a unique opportunity to study a large population of subjects regularly exposed to the traumatic events inherent in the work of an urban EMS worker. Ongoing ...

(WDBJ) - The Blue Ridge EMS (BREMS) Council welcomed a new highly trained yellow Labrador Retriever named Billie Monday, January 13 to serve as a Critical Incident Stress Management K9. K9 Billie ...

A survey of New York’s first responders shows that police, 911 operators, EMS staff and fire fighters are suffering from high ...