What drives us is keeping soldiers alive on the battlefield and helping emergency medical services care-givers deliver better and safer patient care.

Looking to the battlefield, everyone involved with ESF8-CON - manufacturers, medical advisors, and others with extensive background in emergency medical care want to accomplish one thing…reduce death and disability resulting from wounds and injury in combat.

In emergency medical services, better products that produce superior results keep EMTs and paramedics safer and mean that more patients will survive to walk out of the hospital.

We are a business but we are also educators, innovators, problem-solvers, and friends to all we serve.

About the founder of ESF8-CON

Richard A. "Doc" Clinchy, III, Ph.D., EMT-P

Dr. Clinchy has over 50 years prehospital emergency care experience.  Starting as a firefighter in New York State, his EMS career has taken him to Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the US Virgin Islands, Louisiana, and now Florida.  He has had the pleasure of sharing EMS education and experiences with providers on every continent of the world other than Antarctica.  Teaching EMS for Doc started in 1970 and, to a lesser extent, continues today.  He has worked as an EMT, paramedic, firefighter, flight medic, hyperbaric technologist, and public safety officer, as well as both a part-time and full-time EMS educator. Having held various positions in EMS, he founded and operated The American College of Prehospital Medicine from 1990 until closing the school in 2004.  Now, as owner of ESF8-CON, he is a consultant to and representative for a variety of tactical and emergency care equipment manufacturers as well as being involved with the US military.  Still active in EMS, he is a paramedic with the Florida One Disaster Medical Assistance Team, part of the National Disaster Medical System.  Widely published in EMS periodicals, Doc is also the author of instructional texts on SCUBA, author of the emergency medical care chapter of the NOAA Diving Manual, author of Dive First Responder as well as the creator of a course bearing the same name, and most recently authored Emergency First Aid On Board, an International Marine Captain’s QuickGuide.  Dr. Clinchy is a US Navy veteran.
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