McGregor Memorial EMS in the News
Current EMS News
- April 14, 2009: Students see crash wreckage first hand
- April 14, 2009: Inside the life of a UNH EMT
- August 14, 2008: McGregor Memorial EMS works with Wentworth-Douglass Hospital on new stroke initiative
- July 29, 2008: McGregor EMS appointed to the New Hampshire South Strike Team
- October 24, 2007: McGregor Memorial EMS Provides Flu Vaccinations and Participates in Pandemic Readiness Exercise
- September 05, 2007: McGregor EMS Welcomes New Students with Renovated Facility
- August 31, 2007: Driver Not Badly Hurt in Route 125 Rollover
- August 07, 2007: Man Badly Hurt in Fall from Third-floor Balcony in Durham
- August 2, 2007: We've Changed Our Name! Durham Ambulance Corps is now McGregor Memorial EMS
(Download pdf) - May 17, 2007: McGregor Memorial EMS donates 3 new AEDs to the Oyster River Cooperative School District
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CPR in the News
Archived News
- Bomb Scare Hits Madbury Metal Recycling Center
- Skateboarder Assaulted in Durham
- McGregor Student EMT Featured in "Durham: It's Where You Live Campaign" Spring 06
- McGregor Treats Lee Crash Victim, Foster's, May 06
- McGregor Student EMTs Featured in UNH President's Report 2005 [pdf]
- McGregor Memorial Ambulance Newsletter, Winter 05 [pdf]
- Three Persons Increase Training Level For Durham Ambulance Corps, Foster's, Nov. 04
- McGregor Participates in Durham Hazmat Drill, Foster's, Aug. 04
- Six Hurt In Durham Two-Car Crash, Foster's, Aug. 03
- Trio Save Professor Having Heart Attack At Fitness Center, Foster's, May 03
Other Important EMS News
Fewer Paramedics Means More Lives Saved, USA Today, May 06
The study highlighted in the article concludes that: "it [is] better to put a much smaller group of paramedics on a second-tier response . . . [than] to have paramedics on first response vehicles. [This is true] even when those [paramedics]arrive as much as five minutes later than less-trained rescuers. . . . [Those cities] that save the highest percentage of cardiac-arrest victims--Seattle, Boston, Oklahoma City and Tulsa--use such a tiered response. Researchers believe the individual paramedics in such cities deal with a higher volume of critical cases, keeping sharp . . . tricky skills." In the cities that had the best outcomes, the paramedics responded to an average of 4.7 cardiac-arrests a year, versus 1.6 for the cities with the worst outcomes.
