Eric Crompton - President and CEO of Z-Medica LLC - Wallingford, Connecticut. Over the past few years the way first responders and communities respond to emergencies has changed dramatically. Before terms like “mass casualty incident” and “active shooter” became more publicly known, priority used to be placed on getting victims to hospitals and first responders didn’t enter the “hot zone” until after the threat was neutralized. As times have changed and our understanding of how best to save lives in these scenarios has evolved, emergency response protocols have been re-evaluated and replaced with new guidelines, ones that shift emergency medical care from the hospital to the frontlines of tr