- 06/26/2014
The next time you’re in a disagreement with a patient it can ease their anxiety if they have the authority to take control, but if you have that control then be sure to take charge
- 06/22/2014
By David DeBolt
Contra Costa Times
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — If Jahi McMath is in fact at a New Jersey hospital, as one TV news station reported this week, the 13-year-old Oakland girl ...
- 06/20/2014
New Jersey is the only state with a law requiring hospitals to accommodate brain dead patients who belong to a religion that does not accept the diagnosis as a final verdict for death
- 06/19/2014
I knew what you wanted to talk about when I saw your number on my caller ID. I’d heard about your call, of course.
Grapevines being what they are, I declined to offer my opinion until ...
- 06/18/2014
Doctors said her symptoms were stress related, until she returned with a recording of herself describing the numbness and slurred speech as it was happening
- 06/18/2014
TORONTO — Stacey Yepes, 49, was watching TV when all of a sudden she lost feeling in her entire left side and her speech became slurred for about 10 minutes.
She decided to go to the ...
- 06/16/2014
Sue Sterling
The Daily Star-Journal
WARRENSBURG, Mo. — Johnson County Ambulance District will implement new procedures July 1 for handling patients with suspected spinal injuries, Chief ...
- 06/16/2014
The Shield's Gazette
JARROW, England — A family have hit out after claiming a grandmother was left to call for her own ambulance as she suffered a heart attack.
Loved ones of ...
- 06/12/2014
EMS columnist Steve Whitehead discusses the importance of not ruling out fetal trauma, and reminds us pregnant mothers can lose a lot of blood without showing any symptoms
- 06/11/2014
BBC
CORNWALL, England — An ambulance crew taking a man to hospital stopped to pick up two hitchhikers on route.
The crew carrying 60-year-old blood-clot patient Glenn Buscombe stopped ...
- 05/27/2014
By Dana McDonald
It was Thanksgiving, and I had chosen to do my ER clinical for EMT-B school that day. Don't ask me why. I guess I figured, if I was going to pursue a career in EMS I ...
- 05/27/2014
By Amanda Posey
I am a volunteer first responder who just completed my EMT basic class at Aiken Technical College.
My best off-duty save happened the day we graduated. I was en route to ...
- 05/22/2014
At 0700 hours just after completing shift change, you are dispatched to a skilled nursing facility in a rural part of your district for a report of a 75-year-old resident with shortness of breath.
The ...
- 05/12/2014
At first he's cheering while on the stretcher, then he turns and gives a paramedic the bird
- 05/12/2014
It's extremely useful. It may point to the underlying cause of the symptoms visible to the medical responders; it may warn them of potential complications which informs their decisions on ...
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