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August 30, 2007 Volume 1 |
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Unrelenting Midwest rains have killed 22, dislocated hundreds |
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Canoes and high-riding shuttle buses were used to rescue stranded residents across the Midwest on Wednesday as heavy rains generated by a potent combination of scorching temperatures and high humidity forced rivers over their banks, flooding homes and businesses, and saturating farmland in several states, authorities said ... Full Story
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| EKG Club Case 1 - Achy Breaky Heart | |
| Evaluating a challenging EKG-based base study | |
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By EKG Club, EMS1.com Columnist |
| The EKG Club expert panel provides an opportunity for health care providers at all levels to learn from real patient-based case studies. Just as in real life, the case studies may take odd and dramatic twists, but will not involve trickery. Following a typical, appropriate and textbook standard of care common to EMS providers in industrialized countries, you can learn from the these real scenarios ... Full Case | |
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| Out of the Box | |
| The Victim | |
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By Dave Ross, EMS1.com Columnist |
| I am a victim. Yup, it’s true. A victim who has been “intubated” on numerous occasions, has had a rescue airway “inserted,” been bagged, been fully c-spined — too many times to remember — and turned upside down on the board to prove that I really was securely strapped. I have been a severely injured, intubated trauma patient in a public education video on traffic safety when ambulances are using lights and sirens ... Full Column | |
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| Press Release: HealthEMS® Mobile to be at 2007 EMS EXPO, October 11 – 13 in Orlando [Sansio] Firefighter lawsuit extinguishes hopes for Mont. paramedic plan [Billings, Mont.] Related Article: Disciplined D.C. emergency responders drop suitCrowded ER backs up Md. ambulances, but new data shows no worse [Baltimore, Md.] Calif. officer at fault in collison with ambulance [Stockton, Calif.] Mo. paramedics rescue baby from restaurant toilet [Kansas City, Mo.] |
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| Press Release: ColoradoCases.com is Launched, Giving EMS Professionals a Quick and Easy Way to Buy Popular Soft-Sided Colorado Cases Direct [ColoradoCases.com] Study questions nationwide push for school defibrillators [Seattle, Wash.] No need for captains on ambulances, Neb. report says [Omaha, Neb.] Hurricane Dean proves a key test for Texas EMS [Houston, Texas] $50 police ticket burns up N.Y. firefighters [Suffolk, N.Y.]
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