Patient care and safety are the priorities for all emergency medical services.

An air medical helicopter should be an appropriately equipped and licensed ambulance that is staffed with adequate personnel to provide rapid and stabilizing care under various conditions.

Develop real-time syndromic surveillance capturing a majority of clinical illnesses and injury patterns on a mass scale

National credentialing mechanism and up-to-date database of available physicians and medical volunteers who could be deployed as needed in the face of a national emergency.

Emergency physicians should assume a primary role in the medical aspects of disaster planning, management, and patient care.

Advertising/marketing as an air ambulance service

Resuscitative efforts may be discontinued in the out-of-hospital setting for pulseless patients who do not respond to an adequate trial of resuscitation therapy

Guidelines for the role of EMS personnel in domestic violence.

Procedures for uses of drug-assisted intubation (DAI)

Importance of AED availability

Patients be transported under the direction of an EMS system should be taken, whenever possible, to a hospital facility that meets the Emergency Department Planning and Resource Guidelines of ACEP.

EMS role in the community.

Appropriate equipment and supplies to provide necessary patient care

Scope of practice programs

Handling of nuclear, chemical, and biological hazardous materials