Assessing and adequately documenting a patient’s decision-making capacity is a responsibility and skill required of all EMS personnel.

Barriers to maintaining EMS in rural areas include personnel shortages, long travel times, and austere settings.

Dr Casey Patrick joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “According to Which Criteria Should a Return EMS Trip of Long Duration and Distance Be Deemed Ethically Justifiable?”

Ethics and science inform EMTs’ and paramedics’ decisions to initiate, continue, or terminate resuscitation.

In prehospital settings, clinicians make difficult decisions that need to be made quickly and be within their scope of practice and skill set.

EMS responses are critical functions of local governments, yet, in rural areas, many EMS systems are staffed by licensed volunteers.

James Small joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “How Should Rural EMS Funding Streams Be Improved?”

EMS care in rural areas of the United States has suffered from being chronically under-resourced and understaffed.

Representative Eric Emery joins Ethics Talk to discuss how rural EMS workers manage time as a critical resource and how legislative policy can help direct resources toward improving rural EMS service.

Situational awareness means that good care might not only be about the patient.