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Up Close and Critical: 2024 TCS NYC Marathon
On May 18th, 2024, CrowdRx was proud to provide comprehensive medical services for the 42nd RBC Brooklyn Half. This year’s event was a monumental occasion, hosting more than 28,000 runners, thereby becoming the largest half marathon in the country in 2024 and the largest in the event’s history.
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Up Close and Critical: CrowdRx at the 42nd RBC Brooklyn Half
On May 18th, 2024, CrowdRx was proud to provide comprehensive medical services for the 42nd RBC Brooklyn Half. This year’s event was a monumental occasion, hosting more than 28,000 runners, thereby becoming the largest half marathon in the country in 2024 and the largest in the event’s history.
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On Tour with LIV Golf and CrowdRx
Golf, but louder! Our “fans first” approach at CrowdRx jives perfectly with the LIV Golf tour. We are proud to be leading the inter-agency medical efforts across all domestic tour stops.
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Our Operational Medical Unit (OMU) is the 2023 Golden Eagle Award Winner
The Golden Eagle award is one of the most prestigious accolades in the security and safety industry. It recognizes companies that have demonstrated exceptional innovation, efficiency, and excellence in their field. The Golden Eagle Award winner is chosen by a team of subject matter experts who review all case studies and score each submission. This year, CrowdRx was selected as the recipient of the award for its innovative Operational Medical Unit (OMU), a state-of-the-art mobile medical facility designed to provide emergency medical care and support at large-scale events.
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CrowdRx/GMR cover the 2023 FISU World University Games
Working closely with the State of New York and the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games’ Chief Medical Officer, CrowdRx and GMR coordinated dedicated, on-site ambulance coverage for all venues within the games. Our GMR ambulance corps covered over 2,500 athletes and coaches representing 600+ Universities from over 50 countries.
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Ironman Maryland – Up Close and Critical with CrowdRx
When Ironman called, we answered. With over 1,500 participants in the IRONMAN Event and participants in the IRONMAN Eagleman 70.3 race, it was critical that our medical support was both responsive and available throughout the course with a potential high volume of medical events. Led by our expert staff of doctors, our team of highly trained medical support personnel was on-site before the event strategically planning and preparing for our unique brand of coverage. Our Board-Certified emergency physicians along with RNs, Paramedics and EMTs were deployed to ensure the safety and well-being of both the participants and spectators. CrowdRx worked with IRONMAN top-level leadership, as well as local and regional authorities, to execute a compliant strategy and to plan for the unexpected.
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Up Close and Critical at the Big Game
Fans may not have noticed our presence when attending the Big Game – but that’s how we like it. Covering 70,000 plus in attendance, hundreds of stadium, league and operations staff, as well as the participants is all in a day’s work for CrowdRx.
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Covering a Live TV Broadcast
Imagine the intensity, the planning, the raw nerves when you are producing and performing a live television staging of a Broadway show. Now imagine doing it during the Covid-19 pandemic and in the midst of the Delta surge. How do you keep the cast and crew safe from exposure and risking the shutdown of your entire production…
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CrowdRx at Global Citizen’s VAX LIVE
CrowdRx continues to lead the industry with medical event, on-site and custom critical solutions and services for our clients. We have recently launched our Vaccination Verification services to our clients as a standalone package or bundled with our current range of services.
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Team Spotlight: Matt S. Friedman, MD – CrowdRx National Medical Director
The CrowdRx leadership team includes highly qualified medical professionals, public safety experts, and emergency response leaders. They are at the top of their field, staying current on the latest technologies and best practices in onsite and event medical services. They are also accessible, responsive providers who agilely serve CrowdRx’s clients and influence public policy. Learn more and read our latest feature here.
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Keeping a Live Music Shoot Safe in LA
During a seven-day live music shoot for a leading singer/songwriter in Los Angeles, CrowdRx was charged with keeping everyone on the set safe. We deployed one of our lead COVID Compliance Officers and two medics to implement and run the safety protocols we recommended. With a dedicated physician leader on hand for the entire shoot,
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CrowdRx Helping Live Entertainment Come Back
As part of our CrowdRx Go! reopening services, we worked with client RWS Entertainment Group, a New York City-based production company that creates branded stage shows and experiences worldwide. We partnered with RWS to develop health and safety protocols for both the reopening of its NYC rehearsal complex and its return to live experience production.
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Providing Medical Solutions for Large-Scale Client Event Shortly before Declaration of Global Pandemic
On January 31, 2020, the US Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency to aid the nation’s healthcare community in responding to COVID-19. While COVID-19 was a major threat across Asia at the time, it had not yet been determined to be a global pandemic. CrowdRx was engaged to provide innovative onsite medical solutions to screen attendees.
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On Call in the Arctic
CrowdRx is equipped to respond to any medical emergency at any time. This time, we were called in for an epic, time-sensitive rescue—in the Arctic. We were charged with aiding an individual who was taking part in an intense survival reality TV series.
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Fashion Forward Safely During Pandemic
As the pandemic continues, CrowdRx serves its clients with strategic, cutting-edge solutions to keep business moving as safely as possible. Madison Square Garden has been a CrowdRx client for over three decades. We’ve provided the necessary medical services, including onsite medical care, emergency response, and more, for every event there since 1991.
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Keeping an Essential Business Moving Forward during Global Pandemic
Due to the crucial role our client plays in the supply chain and delivering critical relief, it is considered an essential business and needed to continue operating under state of emergency and shelter-in-place orders. Staff frequently travel internationally and routinely come in contact with packages. To help mitigate the spread of COVID-19, our client hired Global Medical Response (GMR) and CrowdRx to provide onsite temperature screening nationwide via the CrowdRx active and passive fever screen systems.
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Lights, Camera, Coronavirus
Today on Fast Forward, we’re talking about how TV and movie sets are handling the COVID crisis with Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA’s COO & General Counsel & Connor Fitzpatrick, Executive Director, CrowdRx. (12:01) via Cheddar.com
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How coronavirus will change sports stadiums
As sports begin to return, stadiums will look a lot different post-Covid. CNBC reports on what venues are doing to get ready for crowds. Dr. Andrew Bazos, Managing Director of CrowdRx, discusses sports’ comeback and what leagues can do to make things safer for athletes and fans.
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COVID-19 Situation Summary
The CDC is responding to a pandemic of respiratory disease spreading from person-to-person caused by a novel (new) coronavirus. The disease has been named “coronavirus disease 2019” (abbreviated “COVID-19”). This situation poses a serious public health risk. The federal government is working closely with state, local, tribal, and territorial partners, as well as public health partners, to respond to this situation. COVID-19 can cause mild to severe illness; most severe illness occurs in older adults.
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CrowdRx Chairman, Andrew Bazos, MD Featured on SiriusXM Radio.
Listen to Dr. Bazos, Chairman of CrowdRx, discuss event medicine.
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EP Monthly: Rattlesnakes, Stabbings, Hyperthermia and a Visualized Appendicitis? Music Fest Medical Care Recap
The challenges of treating the ill and injured at a 30,000 person festival. When staffing music festivals, be prepared to treat an interesting mix of pathology. While much of the pathology is predictable based on the specific type of festival and a historical analysis of the previous medical care provided, patient presentations are quite variable between different types of music festivals featuring different music and mood.
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NYC’s critical emergency services worker shortage highlights need for on-site medical providers
According to a recent report, New York City’s ability to respond to medical emergencies has reached a critical point, highlighting the importance of on-site medical services. Over the past year, official data show, the average time to reach people in cardiac arrest or choking rose by 24 seconds — an increase that can mean life or death.
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Festival Organizers Focused On Safety Ahead Of 2-Day Event
For two days, artists from across the world will entertain guests at the fifth annual Moonrise Festival being held at Pimlico’s Infield. A big focus will be on safety. Organizers tell WJZ they’ve made improvements from their past festivals and have a medical team on site to ensure everyone enjoys the event.
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Behind the Music: A Look at Medical Care at Asia’s Largest Music Festival
Every December since 2011, Jakarta, Indonesia hosts the largest music festival in Asia and, consequently, one of the largest mass gatherings. Once an underground warehouse rave, the Djakarta Warehouse Project was born out of tragedy. In 2010, a brawl at the original host venue left one dead and two injured two weeks before the event was scheduled.
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EP Monthly: The Party Drugs of Summer 2017
An unresponsive patient rolls in with the local volunteer EMS squad from a nearby music festival after a witnessed generalized tonic-clonic seizure lasting for approximately two minutes with a postictal period. He is tachycardic, warm to the touch, and has dilated, reactive pupils. His friends report he has no known medical problems and has taken eight tabs of ‘acid’ throughout the day. He is slowly returning to his baseline mental status as per his friends. What workup is necessary for this first time seizure and for how long should the patient be monitored?
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Does Your Event Need a Field Hospital?
The South by Southwest Music Festival kicks off March 13, while Miami Music Week gets underway March 21. Both mark the unofficial start to “festival season,” when cities around the country host huge multiday gatherings of fans spanning a variety of music genres, from electronic dance music to country and rock. These events, which often involve the dicey combination of high heat and controlled substances such as alcohol and drugs, require special attention to issues of health and safety.
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Eagle Pharmaceutical Inc.’s Treatment Approved for Malignant Hyperthermia is Being Studied for Intoxication of Psychostimulant Drugs by CrowdRx, Inc.
Intoxication produced by certain illicit stimulant drugs may lead to a life-threatening condition in which the person experiences severe increase in body temperature, metabolic abnormalities, rapid heart rate, aggressiveness, delusions, convulsions, coma or even death.
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NFPA Festival Medicine: Life of the Party
Life of the Party Safe spaces, mental health services, drug checking facilities. Welcome to the brave new world of harm reduction, the latest life safety tool of the booming global festival industry.
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CrowdRx Featured on CNN’s This is Life with Lisa Ling: Exploring the Advantages or Onsite Event Medical Services.
CNN’s Lisa Ling discusses music festival medical coverage with CrowdRx’s Dr. Andrew Bazos. Lisa follows CrowdRx’s Connor Fitzpatrick and team while providing their music festival medical services and expertise at Mysteryland. Exploring how CrowdRx is working to make EDM festivals safer for all.
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Rolling Stone Discusses Music Festival Safety
Harm reduction groups are trying to prevent bad trips and medical emergencies – but will the law let them?
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American Promoters Look to Europe for Safety
ollowing a spate of highly publicized drug related incidents, safety and security has taken center stage for American show promoters. Taking a page from the European electro scene, American promoters are shifting to more comprehensive, long-term strategies.
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EP Monthly Article: Raves and Saves: Massive Music Festivals Call for Advanced Emergency Care
Drug-fueled electronic dance festivals – like this month’s Electric Zoo in New York – shine a light on the need for advanced emergency management at mass gatherings…
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Amsterdam Dance Event on October 16th
CrowdRx is speaking at the 2014 Amsterdam Dance Event on October 16th. Andrew Bazos, Chairman of CrowdRx, will be moderating panelists including Erick Salk, MD and others.
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The Doctor is In
“Because regulations are different in every state, the kind of services that are available are very fragmented,” Bazos said. “What we hope to accomplish is a national set of standards and procedures.” Andrew Bazos, MD
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Safety and Sponsors: Keeping Everyone Happy
Event Medical and Security Consultant Dr. Andrew Bazos discusses security measures and protocol to help curtail the use of Ecstasy and other drugs at EDM festivals. Making raves safer for participants makes them more consumable for corporate sponsors.
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CrowdRx Discusses Medical Safety over at POLLSTAR
Fans of EDM music love hearing the oontz-oontz and getting glitter bombed. They do not necessarily find the guy standing next to an ambulance as interesting.
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The Metamorphosis of On-Site Medical Care
When you think about the glitz and glamour of any event or festival — regardless of whether it’s large or small —it is a safe bet that on-site emergency medical services wouldn’t be what pops into your mind first. Or even second. But providing the best possible medical care to those attending such festivities has become the life’s work of Dr. Andrew Bazos, Founder and Chairman of Philadelphia, PA-based CrowdRx.
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Our Operational Medical Unit (OMU) is the 2023 Golden Eagle Award Winner
CrowdRx, a leading provider of event medical services, has been awarded the 2023 Golden Eagle award by The National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security (NCS4) at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) together with SDM & Security Magazines for its Operational Medical Unit (OMU).
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CrowdRx Joins Global Medical Response
(GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.) — Global Medical Response (GMR) officials announced today that CrowdRx has joined the GMR family of companies. Randy Strozyk, GMR Senior Vice President of Operations, said CrowdRx’s expertise in site-based medicine and resources combined with GMR’s solid reputation in the event medical arena is exciting news for those who attend large gatherings throughout the United States.
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What sports will look like as the pandemic eases
CrowdRx discusses what sports and entertainment venues in the U.S. will look like post-pandemic for CNBC. One-stop-shop consulting to get your venue or workplace open and back in the game.
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