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Practical writing for people who run EMS agencies and teach the next round of medics. When a national guideline changes, someone has to decide what it means for your protocol document, who retrains, and how fast the crews on shift find out. That is what we write about here.
What we cover
- Guideline changes. What the American Heart Association and other bodies actually changed, and which lines in your protocol document it touches.
- Protocol management. Version control, keeping a printed binder and a phone in agreement, and getting a change out to every crew.
- EMS education. How paramedic programs use protocol reference tools in labs, scenarios, and clinical rotations.
- Field use. What works on a phone at 3:00 AM in a moving ambulance and what does not.
- Where to find us. Conferences and trade shows we are exhibiting at this year.
Protocol
A General AI Is Not Your Protocol
A crew is on scene and somebody wants a dose. A phone comes out. The answer arrives in two seconds, written in confident, clean English, and it sounds exactly like the kind of thing a protocol would say. The speed is not the problem. The question worth asking your crews is a different one:
Protocol
The AHA 2025 CPR Guideline Overhaul: What EMS Agencies Need to Change Now
The American Heart Association (AHA) just released its 2025 CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) Guidelines, and this update isn't minor. It rewrites how we approach resuscitation, choking, and mechanical CPR in both adult and pediatric patients. For EMS agencies, training officers, and medical directors — these changes need attention
Protocol
2025 AHA Guideline Updates: What EMS Providers Should Prepare For
The American Heart Association (AHA) is set to release its 2025 Guidelines for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) on October 22, 2025, with new training courses launching the same day. These updates are expected to bring some of the most significant changes to resuscitation science and EMS reporting in
Protocol
See You at EMS World Expo 2025 — Booth 1949!
We're excited to announce we'll be at EMS World Expo 2025, the world's largest EMS-dedicated event, happening October 20–24 in Indianapolis, Indiana. It's where the EMS community gathers to learn, connect, and see the technology shaping the next generation of emergency care. You'll find us at Booth 1949. Why EMS
How our protocol agent uses AI safely
Some providers like AI and do not want to lose it. They do not want to thumb through a paper binder, and they do not want to work down a printed table of contents to find one page. Our protocol agent is built for them.
It interfaces with public AI in a safe manner: the AI is used to help find protocols that were written by your own medical director. Every answer identifies clearly what came from the public AI and what came from the medical director, so it is crystal clear what is public and what is the actual source of truth.
Guaranteed access to a protocol in 5 seconds or less
That is the guarantee behind it. The agent's job is to put your medical director's protocol in front of a crew in five seconds or less. It is not there to write the protocol.
Who writes this
EMS Dev Solutions has built protocol reference software since 2024, and the people writing here include a working paramedic. We are not writing from the outside about a field we read about.
Want us to cover something?
If your agency is wrestling with a protocol problem you suspect other agencies have too, tell us. Call 319-250-1367 or use the contact form.
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