Happy New Year and Happy Birthday

Happy New Year! It’s going to be a good one for EMS World because among other things, we’re turning 45. When we began in 1972, it was just six years after publication of the seminal white paper Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society and a year before the EMS Systems Act of 1973 kick-started the development of prehospital care networks nationwide.

We’ve watched and chronicled as our industry has grown into maturity and steadily advanced its capabilities, care levels and technologies. The care we today provide victims of life-imperiling, time-sensitive threats like cardiac arrest, stroke, trauma and more would astonish our forebears. So would the concepts of mobile integrated taking follow-up and preventive care to those vulnerable and at risk.

It’s a much different world than 1972, and it’s with some pride that we enter 2017 as the longest-standing, most widely read and most influential trade publication and website for emergency medical services providers. Thanks for allowing us to serve you. We’ll be commemorating it all with a special anniversary edition later this year, as well as digging up key articles, interviews and other content from our near-half-century-deep vault of archives for republication on EMSWorld.com.

And if you’d like to start planning early, EMS World Expo 2017 will be held October 16–20 in Las Vegas. For information see EMSWorldExpo.com.

Our work could not happen without your work, so thanks for your tenacious efforts to keep our communities safer, healthier and happier for the citizens you serve. We’re thrilled to be a part of it with you.