User:Arosenblum17/sandbox

I'm interested in working on EMS/PH topics in particular. Some topics I've found so far:

Supraventricular_tachycardia

I was also thinking about creating the page for the Hopkins Emergency Response Organization (HERO), which has existed on the Homewood campus for 20+ years. The idea came because HERO is listed on the NCEMSF page and other campus EMS organizations have wikipedia pages but HERO does not.

Other possible topics:

- Pediatric Advanced Life Support

- Wallace rule of nines

- Advanced cardiac life support (which is out of date from the 2015 guidelines)

- Pediatric advanced life support (which is a very bare article for a deep topic)

- National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation

This is an interesting idea. Can you add some of the resources you'd consider using for HERO (or ems/PH topics generally)? What is it about these topics that interest you? Gingerninjagirl (talk) 20:08, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

My interst in this comes from my personal interst in EMS. I've been in EMS in various capacities since 2013. I got started as a water rescue tech, followed up an EMT and currently I'm an EMT-Intermediate (advanced life support). I'm also the Captain of the Campus EMS organization HERO, and I was thinking it would be cool if we had a wikipedia page as only a few other collegiate EMS services have wikipedia pages. A few sources I found relatively quickly:

- http://www.jhunewsletter.com/2001/10/04/heru-resumes-operation-71601/

-- this article gives stats from 2004 and talks about when Dr. Joffe became the medical director

- http://www.jhunewsletter.com/2004/09/09/ready-for-anything-heru-volunteers-rush-to-the-scene-44950/

-- 2004 article about operations

- http://www.jhunewsletter.com/2005/11/03/heru-holds-incident-training-15017/

-- 2005 Mass causality training with BCFD

- http://www.jhunewsletter.com/2006/11/09/heru-stages-simulated-mass-casualty-incident-68144/

-- 2006 MCI

- http://www.jhunewsletter.com/2013/11/14/hero-teaches-students-on-cpr-awareness-day-82816/

-- 2013 CPR day

- http://www.jhunewsletter.com/2014/09/18/security-week-returns-to-promote-student-safety-82264/

-- working with campus safety/security for security week 2014

-http://www.jhunewsletter.com/2006/04/05/heru-upgrades-medical-services-91186/

-- transitioning to an EMT organization from first responders

- http://www.jhunewsletter.com/2015/12/03/hero-celebrates-20th-anniversary-on-hopkins-campus/

-- 20th Anniversary

And of course the HERU website is full of info/history/background http://heru.jhu.edu/

Although I was wondering how "good" these sources are by Wikipedia's terms becuase they're mostly newspaper articles and the organizations website

But I'm not dead set on this topic and would be interstred in other options too. But if possible something EMS/Public Health related.

Andrew! I agree it would be great to have a wiki page for this. For the sake of the course assignment, it might be helpful to pull back and try to think in sort of "big history" around EMS. Have you read Eric Klinenberg's Heat Wave (about the 1995 Chicago heat wave)? He is a sociologist and has written quite a bit about changes in emergency response funding/infrastructure. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo20809880.html Of course others have explored similar issues concerning the social infrastructure relevant to emergency response (Katrina, etc)...You wouldn't have to focus on "natural disaster." Perhaps you could fill in the history on the National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation? Not sure if there are good sources. Gingerninjagirl (talk) 14:49, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

-- New related idea I think is even better. The Virginia Beach Dept of EMS (Where I'm from and an active patient care provider) doesn't have a page at all. They've been at the forefront of various various epidemiological projects over their 60 year history and there is a decent amount written about them in terms of available sources.