EMS Today 2012 in Baltimore this weekend was an astounding event. More than two dozen brand new products and companies were exhibiting. This was the 30th year of EMS Today, and ...
EMS has come a long way since the 1970s, when ambulances morphed from converted hearses to big, boxy trucks. It was a time when ambulance attendants became EMS providers, changing ...
The Associated PressHILO, Hawaii — The Coast Guard is waiting for an update on the condition of a woman who needed blood delivered to her while aboard a Hawaii-bound cruise ...
Often it is not the complicated and expensive technologies that make a real difference in EMS. It is more often the simple ideas; inexpensive disposable products that make the ...
By Jordan Grummer Southwest Times Record RUSSELLVILLE, While transporting a patient on a rainy night in October about 10 miles west of Russellville, a Fort Smith Emergency Medical ...
By Michelle Boudin NewsChannel36SALISBURY, N.C. — A horrible accident left a Salisbury teen in a coma hundreds of miles away from home, and now a local EMS crew is stepping ...
By Kevin Pearsons The Press Enterprise LOS ANGELES — When American Medical Response and the Hemet Fire Department respond to a medical aid call, crews often have to improvise ...
Some research showed an increase in thyroid cancers among some 9/11 responders ...
There are a broad range of very important devices that are now available for emergency patient packaging, but it is our earliest days of medic training that will often be critical ...
Associated PressDOUGLASSVILLE, Pa. — Authorities say a woman is hospitalized in critical condition after she crashed her car in southeastern Pennsylvania and wasn't found for ...
By Robin Epley Chico Enterprise-Record CHICO — A man fell approximately 100 feet while playing at the new Peregrine Point disc golf course on Highway 32 on Sunday. He was ...
EMS1 is focusing on news and information about Patient Handling throughout the month of May 2011. Check out some of these great products currently on the site: ...
Introducing a new line of stretcher in the U.S. anymore is a very hard thing to do. ...
By EMS1 StaffAmy Turley got the idea for her innovative backboard pad 17 years ago, when she was in EMT school. In one training exercise her classmates placed her on a backboard, ...
When the research team at Emergency Products and Research began looking at a redesign of their traction device, they turned to the military. ...
Vacuum mattresses can have a major drawback: their cost. At around $500 apiece, they can be too expensive for some agencies to afford. Hartwell Medical's new FASPLINT Full Body was ...
By Gary Stern Investor's Business Daily DES PERES, Mo. — Imagine if a company created a product that saved lives and filled a product niche. Helping society is fine, but can ...
This is really much more than a traction splint; it can immobilize the knee or any lower long bone fracture, PLUS it is a great traction splint. ...
By StrykerIn 2002, 36 percent of all injuries suffered by Charleston County employees were strain-related injuries. The county’s Emergency Medical Service Department (EMS) ...
By Stryker As director of the Fairfield County, South Carolina EMS Department, Mike Tanner routinely balances the need to save lives with the demand to conserve expenses and meet ...
