Push to Talk with Bruce Webb: A Helicopter Podcast

Episode 61: Organizing EMS For Safety and Success (w/ Paul Ward)

Bruce Webb

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Each year more than half a million patients in the US are transported by air ambulance. EMS flight teams face the unique challenge of navigating the inherent risks of flight with the added stresses that come with emergency care. So how can we provide them the safest environment possible to deliver their critical services?

Paul Ward is the assistant vice president of safety programs at Intermountain Health. As a former medic and lifelong student of industrial organization, Paul works to optimize safety for medical transport teams, and take better care of the people who take care of us.