This week, Concordance Healthcare Solutions is embarking on another adventure. Through the hard work and commitment of our team, we are pleased to announce the opening of our newest distribution location in Riverside, California.
The EMS profession has a tremendous responsibility. The safe transport of children by ambulance to hospitals has always been an EMS priority. The lack of guidelines to address that priority has been a problem for years, but there have been no crash standards for child-transport equipment. Professional EMS personnel rely on manufacturers’ guidelines; those are the only standards upon which they’ve been able to depend.
This “multi-faceted problem” has been pursued without evidence-based standards until now. In March 2017, the new Safe Transport of Children by EMS Interim Guidance was released by NASEMSO (National Association of State EMS Officials). The organization will be seeking funding to conduct crash-testing research and to develop standards. Until that time, the Interim Guidance guidelines can be followed – based on what we now know – to minimize the risk of additional injury to children in ambulances.
The Guidance includes the following directives:
This week, Concordance Healthcare Solutions is embarking on another adventure. Through the hard work and commitment of our team, we are pleased to announce the opening of our newest distribution location in Riverside, California.
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