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<title>Police: Texas man posed as paramedic</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Janelle Stecklein The Amarillo Globe-NewsAMARILLO, Texas &mdash; An Amarillo man already busted for impersonating a public servant has been arrested again, this time for allegedly pretending to be a paramedic and providing medical treatment to people at events around town.Zachary Paul Harris, 22, is accused of attending events such as Homer's Backyard Ball in May under the guise of a paramedic working ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:53:23 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Okla. ambulance service focus of drug query</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Ann Kelley The OklahomanSEMINOLE, Okla. &mdash; Law enforcement officials are investigating allegations that narcotics are missing from Medicus, the cityowned ambulance service.An agent from the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control opened an investigation Tuesday after receiving a tip about possible misuse of drugs, spokesman Mark Woodward said.Woodward said he couldn't comment ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:50:01 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Ohio man charged for breaking cell phone dialing 911</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Darrel Rowland The Columbus DispatchCOLUMBUS, Ohio &mdash; Flattening the tires of an ambulance speeding to an emergency.Blowing up a city waterline.Smashing a single cell phone.All are potential violations of a state law against disrupting public service, a unanimous Ohio Supreme Court ruled yesterday in a precedent-setting ruling.Raynell Robinson of Marysville was convicted of the fourth-degree ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:45:33 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Preventing Injury in EMS Professionals</title>
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<description><![CDATA[While new devices like cots and stair chairs have reduced the incidence of stretcher-lifting injuries, our primary source of injury still comes from getting the patient to the stretcher. Read on to see how and why a good fitness routine plays a large role in injury prevention.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:47:49 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Speed and Time in Prehospital Trauma Care</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's a commonly held view in EMS that we should get the patient to the hospital as soon as possible. And while there is some validity in that, research has shown that speed of transport makes less difference in terms of patient survival outcomes than we think. This need for speed is one EMS ritual that our industry can do without, as we don't need to also compromise public and provider safety while meeting artificial response times. Do you think such practices are truly beneficial and sustainable?]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:40:49 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>NY paramedic disputes man on dad's death</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Terence Corcoran The Journal NewsPEEKSKILL, N.Y. &mdash; A man who died after his son left him in a sweltering car while he was at work last year may have been dead longer than the two hours that his son told police he'd left him.Paramedic Steve Colt estimated Wednesday that Joseph Pressman had been dead four hours when he examined his body around 4 p.m. July 7, 2008.&quot;He was very hot to the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:24:25 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Ohio fire department seeks permission to transport patients</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Heather Rutz The Lima NewsLIMA, Ohio &mdash; The Fire Department wants a piece of the emergency ambulance response business.Fire Chief Mark Heffner presented his proposal to City Council's Safety Services Committee on Tuesday, saying his firefighters would provide transport to hospitals from all motor vehicle crashes and take a third spot in the 911 rotation.Currently MedCorp and Lima Allen County ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:16:38 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Texas youths set record for world's largest CPR training class</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Jeff Mosier The Dallas Morning NewsARLINGTON, Texas &mdash; Most of Arlington's eighth-graders were sprawled across the Cowboys Stadium field and into the record books Tuesday.The 4,626 youths set the record for the largest-ever CPR training class. An official with Guinness World Records reviewed sign-in sheets and turnstile counts and observed how the CPR class was taught. Shortly after the students ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:01:14 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Minn. bus crash kills 2, injures 21 after driver suffers aneurysm </title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Jeff Baenen The Associated PressMINNEAPOLIS &mdash; A tour bus driver suffered a ruptured aneurysm before a crash on a southern Minnesota interstate that killed two people and injured 21 others, the bus company's owner said Thursday.Driver Ed Erickson suffered the aneurysm in his chest and lost consciousness shortly before the bus swerved off a clear, dry freeway Wednesday and rolled into a ditch ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:19:53 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>CT scans used in Fla. ERs to rule out heart attacks quicker</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Marilynn Marchione The Associated PressORLANDO, Fla. &mdash; A CT scan &mdash; a kind of super X-ray &mdash; provides a faster, cheaper way to diagnose a heart attack when someone goes to the emergency room with chest pains, a new study suggests.About 6 million people each year go to hospitals with chest pain, but only a small fraction are truly having a heart attack. CT scans are increasingly used ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:14:30 UTC</pubDate>

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