Jason and Kathy Lott, founders of the Thin Gold Line Foundation, talk about Jason’s experience as an emergency dispatcher with PTSD and the resources their organization provides for other dispatchers. 
 

For Your Information: 
The Thin Gold Line Foundation website: https://www.thethingoldlinefoundation.com/ 

WarFighter Advance website: https://www.warfighteradvance.org/

Supplementary reading: The Healthy Dispatcher by Adam Timm and The Resilient 911 Professional by Jim Marshall

The Thin Gold Line Foundation with Jason and Kathy Lott

Isabel Gardett talks with Brett Patterson, the chair of the Medical Council of Standards for the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch. They discuss the why and how of getting involved with research, what it means that a dispatch system is “evidence-based,” and how to enact change to protocols using research.

For Your Information:
Sepsis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepsis)

ABCs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_(medicine))

AHA (http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/)

Hypoxic seizure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_hypoxia)

W. Edwards Deming, Some Theory of Sampling (https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Sampling-William-Edwards-Deming/dp/048664684X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505500418&sr=1-4&refinements=p_lbr_one_browse-bin%3AW.+Edwards+Deming)

W. Edwards Deming, Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position (https://www.amazon.com/Quality-Productivity-Competitive-Position-Edwards/dp/0911379002/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8)

Want to get involved in a study? Have a question? Email us at dispatchindepth @ emergencydispatch (dot) org

The Thin Gold Line Foundation with Jason and Kathy Lott

Dispatch in Depth

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