Nashville Fire Department Archive — Page 1 of 1

Group of emergency care researchers, trauma surgery staff, and Nashville firefighters posing in front of a Nashville Fire Department ambulance marked “MEDIC 79.”
February 7, 2020

Study tracks how to best help patients breathe after trauma

By Craig Boerner
Nashville Fire Department emergency medical services ambulance marked “MEDIC 79” crossing a city street, with construction barriers and buildings in the background.
November 26, 2019

VUMC, Nashville Fire Department test real-time medical record system to improve handoff of incoming emergency patients

VUMC and the Nashville Fire Department are testing a system to automatically generate patient acuity scores and abbreviated care records of in-transit patient procedures based on computer interpretations of signals from sensors and video cameras.

By Paul Govern
Portrait of a gray-haired man wearing glasses, a light blue shirt, and a red striped tie.
August 30, 2019

Slovis to step down from top Emergency Medicine role

After serving more than 27 years as Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Corey M. Slovis, MD, has decided to step down.

By John Howser