Advisories, Memos and Notices

• Comfort Care
• Initial Training and Continuing Education
• Instructors and Examiners
• Certification
• Ambulance Services
• Statewide Treatment Protocols
• Open Meeting Notices

Comfort Care

• Comfort Care Program Update, Effective 1/22/07 (PDF)    

Initial Training and Continuing Education

• Memorandum: EMS Continuing Education and Refresher Course Monitoring; Blanket Approvals Date/Time/Location Notification; 5-Day Deadline for Submission of Attendance Rosters (PDF)    
• Advisory: Change in Teaching Credit Cap (PDF)    
• Advisory: On-Line CPR (BLS/ACLS) Training (PDF)    
• Advisory: Submission of EMT Training Program Rosters Directly to OEMS (PDF)    
• Advisory: EMT Certification vs. Athletic Trainer Licensure and Training (PDF)    

Instructors and Examiners

• Continuing Education and Refresher Training Course Approval Process Change, 8/31/2011 (PDF)    
• Advisory: Electronic Submission of Continuing Education Rosters (PDF)    
  • Electronic Roster Submission Template (XLS) 
• Advisory: Use of Electronic Communication Devices and Cell Phones at EMT Certification Examination (PDF)    
• Instructor Resource for Paramedic Refresher (Pediatric Emergencies) (PDF)    

Certification

• Memo: Patients and EMT Assistants at EMT Practical Examination (PDF)    
• Advisory <strong>:</strong> Use of Electronic Communication Devices and Cell Phones at EMT Certification Examination (PDF)    

Ambulance Services

• Advisory: Ensuring Ambulance Cot Safety and Preventing Cot Tip Over, 1/24/12    
• Advisory: EMS Response to Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs), 12/15/11    
• Memorandum: Drug Supply Shortages: D50, furosemide and substitutions in temporary shortages, 8/10/2010 (PDF)    
• Memorandum: Amendment to MGL c. 111C for minimum staffing standard of paramedic-level ambulances, 8/3/2010 (PDF)    
• Drug Supply Shortages: Epinephrine 1:10,000 and Morphine Sulfate (PDF)    
• Updated Massachusetts EMS Radio Communications Plan, Effective 3/1/10 (PDF)    
• Table of Approved Devices, 1/19/10 (PDF)    
• Updated Advisory: EMS Interaction with Suspected H1N1 Flu Patients (PDF)    
• Advisory: Sharing Patient Information for Quality Improvement and Required Reporting to the Department (PDF)    
• Advisory: EMS Response to Assisted Living Residences vs. Licensed Health Care Facilities, and Cancellation (PDF)    
• Advisory: HIPAA Allows Disclosure of Trip Records to Organ Banks (PDF)    
• Advisory: Implementation Date Set for 2007 Medical Control Regulatory Changes (PDF)    
• Advisory: Ambulances with Patients on Board Stopping at Other Emergencies (PDF)    
• Urgent Notice Updated: Ferno PROFlexx Model 35-X Stretcher Failures and Cot Handling Safety (PDF)    
• Department-Approved Statewide Point of Entry Plan for Appropriate Health Care Facility Destination Based on Patient's Specific Condition and Need, Effective 8/1/08 (PDF)    
• Advisory: Use of Hemostatic Dressings, 11/21/07 (PDF)    
• Memo: July 1, 2007 Implementation Date for Affiliation Agreement Regulation Changes, 3/29/07(PDF)    
• Advisory: Waiver of Cutoff Date in 105 CMR 170.355(C) and (D) (PDF)    
• Advisory: Elevating Wheeled Cot Safety Practices (PDF)    
• Advisory: Protection from Liability for Physicians Providing Medical Oversight to MA Ambulance Services (PDF)    
• Advisory: Potential Hare Traction Splint Problem (PDF)    
• Advisory: TASERS and EMS Response (PDF)    
• Advisory: EMT Personnel Roster Submission (PDF)    
• Hospital and Emergency Medical Services Preparedness
• Massachusetts Ambulance Trip Record Information System (MATRIS) Data List, the Statewide Minimum EMS Data Set: Updated 3/19/09 (PDF)    
• Massachusetts Ambulance Trip Record Information System (MATRIS) Data Dictionary, the Statewide Minimum EMS Data Set: Updated 3/19/09 (PDF)    
• Advisory: Delivery of Ambulance Trip Records to Receiving Hospitals (PDF)    
• List of Designated Primary Stroke Services Hospitals
• EMS Mass Casualty Incident Planning Guide (PDF)    
• Memo: Process for Implementation of Department's Primary Stroke Center Program and Development of Point-of-Entry Plans (PDF)    
• Stroke Point-of-Entry Plan (PDF)    
• Stroke Checklist (PDF)    
• Training Presentation for Stroke Point-of-Entry (PPT)    
• Manufacturer's Instructions: Thoratec Ventricular Assist Device (VAD)
• Advisory: Emergency Advisory Concerning Medtronic's Biphasic Life Pak 12 defibrillator/monitors (PDF)    
• Advisory: Pronouncement of Death Authority (PDF)    
• Memo: CPR Vest (PDF)    
• Advisory: HIPAA authorizes a covered entity to disclose patient protected health information for treatment purposes without patient authorization (PDF)    
• Advisory: Administration of Medication by Paramedics without Assessment or Transport (PDF)    
• Advisory: Immediate Dispatch and Confirmation of EMS Response (PDF)    
• Advisory: Elimination of All Special Medical Oversight Requirements for AED Use by Ambulance Services and their EMTs (PDF)    
• Advisory: Pediatric AED Capability (PDF)    
• Advisory: Transport of Suspected SARS Patient (PDF)    
• Advisory: Treat and Release: Patient Refusals (PDF)    
  

Statewide Treatment Protocols

• 12 -Lead Competency 1/20/2011 (PDF)    
• Statewide Treatment Protocol - Appendix U Fire Rehabilitation And Tactical EMS Principles 4/2/08 (PDF)    
• Advisory: Diltiazem HCl (Cardizem Lyoject) (PDF)    
• Advisory: Administration of Amiodarone hydrochloride (PDF)    
• Advisory: Update of Assisted Albuterol Program for Known Asthmatics/COPD 4/9/2010 (PDF)    
• Three Emergency Protocol Changes Regarding: (1) 12-Lead ECG findings of ST elevation AND cardiogenic shock or CHF, (2) 1-8 years old AED use, and (3) Lorazepam (PDF)    
• Supplemental information regarding the advisory on the administration of nitrates for patients taking phosphodiesterase-type-5 inhibitor category (PDE5) or similar drugs (PDF)    
• Advisory: Emergency change in 5.1 Newborn Resuscitation and 5.2 Pediatric Anaphylaxis Protocols 12/21/2004 (PDF)    
• Adult Intraosseous 10/10/2003 (PDF)    
• Capnography 10/10/2003 (PDF)    
• PICC Lines 10/10/2003 (PDF)    

Open Meeting Notices

Updated February 13, 2012; 10:33am

• February 13, 2012, 10:30 AM, meeting, Executive subcommittee of the Emergency Medical Care Advisory Board, Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) bunker, 400 Worcester Road (Route 9 Eastbound), Framingham.

This information is provided by the Office of Emergency Medical Services within the Department of Public Health.