By Philip Reese and Cynthia Hubert Sacramento Bee SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Years before a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital bused a homeless, schizophrenic man to Sacramento without ...
By Jonathan Betz WFAA DALLAS, Texas — A former firefighter who was injured on the job is suing one of North Texas’ wealthiest cities, alleging the town refuses to pay ...
By Sharon Kiley Bangor Daily News CALAIS, Maine — Calais Fire-EMS is one of six services recently approved statewide to participate in a pilot project that is intended to ...
From lifting and loading the cot to the classic sheet drag patient transfer, there are poor lifting techniques in our profession that we must stop doing. ...
By Sandra Chereb The Associated Press CARSON CITY, Nev.— The federal agency that oversees Medicaid and Medicare compliance has put Nevada on notice of "serious ...
Evoking empathy is a powerful tool. I share it with some trepidation, knowing that it could be used inappropriately. I ask you to use it and develop it with respect. ...
By Dave Wedge Boston Hearld BOSTON — Jim Plourde, a stocky, fourth-year Jamaica Plain firefighter, was expecting to deal with a few fainting runners or minor bumps and ...
We have unknowingly handed down bad patient handling techniques, outright dangerous biomechanics and ergonomics from one generation of EMS responders to another. ...
The 65-year-old patient ultimately died, just three minutes after medics arrived at the scene ...
By Brady McCombs Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — A northern Utah sheriff's office is floating a unique and unproven idea for keeping seniors with Alzheimer's ...
The ambulances were all reported to be out of service after the officer was seriously injured in a hit-and-run ...
By Tim O'Neil St. Louis Post-Dispatch ST. LOUIS — An ambulance idling outside the emergency department at Barnes-Jewish Hospital was stolen early Monday while medical ...
RAPID CITY, S.D. — A SD teen will serve two concurrent one-year jail sentences for spitting on an EMT who was trying to treat him at the scene of an accident last Feb. Trey ...
WSVN-TV FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — An ambulance in the middle of transporting a patient to the hospital collided with a car, leaving five people injured, including paramedics ...
By Jessica Miller Ames Patch AMES, Iowa — A 22-year-old Ames man resisted his arrest and tried to stop firefighters from helping an unconscious intoxicated man at a party ...
By Matt McCutcheon WAVE3 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — University Hospital workers came together to grant a wish for a dying patient. Hospital staff members call Evonne Lee an ...
Associated Press SALEM, Ore. — An 81-year-old Salem man was safe in a hospital while friends and police searched for him for two days this week after he disappeared from his ...
By Shomari Stone and Mark Segraves NBC Washington WASHINGTON — District firefighters were forced to take a man suffering from a stroke to a hospital in a fire truck Thursday ...
Wiltshire Times WILTSHIRE, England — Paramedics in Wiltshire are continuing to be sent to inappropriate calls by the private company Harmoni, which is running the 111 ...
WJLA PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, Md. — A MPD officer struck in a hit-and-run had to wait nearly 20 minutes before an ambulance arrived on scene. A vehicle struck the MPD officer ...
