Interview with Lisa Basgall: EMS Director of Rice University EMS

Role of the state EMS medical director.

Dedicated and qualified medical direction is required to ensure safe and quality patient care. Medical direction is a fundamental element of the emergency medical services (EMS) system. It is essential that the lead agency for EMS within the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mari...

Rice EMS to use IVs , advanced drugs

W i e s s C o l l e g e f r e s h m a n Chr i s Williams, who s tuden t s r e m e m b e r as o u t g o i n g and enthusiast ic , died Sunday in a car accident . A c c o r d i n g to t h e B a s t r o p County, Texas Depar tmen t of Public Safety, Wil l iams' Mini Cooper drifted over the cen te r line as he was driving westbound on Route 290. His car collided with an eas tbound Jeep . Williams, ...

EMS Professionals

International EMS systems: Portugal.

EMS mutagenesis of Arabidopsis.

A powerful approach for determining the biological functions of genes in an organism is to produce mutants with altered phenotypes and physiological responses. Various approaches for mutagenesis involving chemical, irradiation, and insertional methods have been developed; each has advantages and disadvantages for the study of gene function. In this post-genomic era, the use of reverse genetic a...