Closing Out the Year and Looking to the Future

As 2018 ends and 2019 approaches, I wanted to first thank all our readers, authors, columnists, photographers and editorial board members for following and contributing to our work throughout 2018. It was a year of change for JEMS, moving to an all-electronic platform and working to enhance our electronic delivery systems and methods. Change takes time, so we thank you for your patience and promise you that more great innovations are on the way to make your receipt and use of important articles and information easier to read, print out and share on all your devices. We appreciate our audience and do not take your trust in us lightly. You count on us to continue to seek out and present the most important, innovative and clinically sound information to you to allow you to do what you love to do—save lives, provide comfort to your patients, and remain energized and excited about EMS and all that it entails. We also want you to know that your safety and physical and emotional health is paramount to our staff, and we pledge to continue to “have your backs” in more ways than one. Stress and suicide in EMS continue to affect way to may providers and we, and many others, are working hard to help you get over these hurdles. In early 2019, JEMS and Clarion UX Fire & Rescue Group will publish a comprehensive textbook on EMS resiliency that’s being released through our Fire Engineering Books & Videos division titled, A Community of One: Building Social Resilience. The tex...
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