2008 National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Conference
February 29-March 2, 2008
Cornell EMS sent 10 Members to the 2008 National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Conference (NCEMSF) in Philadelphia. Six Current Executive Board Members as well as four general members attended lectures based on emergency medicine given by doctors and emergency service personnel. Topics ranged from Chest Trauma, to Administrative Roundtables, to Planning a Campus Evacuation Exercise. CUEMS members were fortunate enough to listen to CUEMS and Cornell Alum, Jeffrey Lubin, MD, MPH, speak about Air Medical Services and Collegiate EMS. The Conference allowed members to gain insight on how other Collegiate EMS Agencies run and provided a number of ideas for the future as well as what areas CUEMS stands out as a collegiate agency. The group returned to Ithaca ready to plan for the future and implement new ideas in areas such as Training, Operations, and Community Outreach.


Cornell EMS Ramps Up Disaster Preparedness with New Addition
Summer of 2007
Cornell EMS puts Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) Trailer into Service with generous assitance from Cornell University's Department of Risk Management. The MCI Unit is just one of many steps that CUEMS has taken to improve its preparation should a large scale disaster come to Cornell University. The trailer is filled with equipment which among many other things, will allow CUEMS Personnel the ability to provide care to over 100 patients, provide spinal immobilization to 50 pts, simultaneously administer Oxygen to 20 patients, organize EMS Incident Command and ensure organization between CUEMS providers. The Trailer has the most amount of emergency medical supplies in all of Tompkins County and is one of very few like it in the larger surrounding area.