Ambulance Safety
This directory offers a curated selection of articles on Ambulance Safety, focusing on best practices for EMS professionals. Topics include safe driving techniques, equipment securing, and protocols to minimize risks during transport. Prioritizing Ambulance Safety is essential for protecting both patients and EMS personnel. Additionally, explore our resources on emergency vehicle operations, which are closely related to maintaining safety standards in the field. Use this directory to stay informed and ensure that your ambulance operations adhere to the highest safety standards.
U.S. EMS agencies have been ordering options that make rigs safer and more comfortable for providers and patients
Current challenges, issues and solutions common to both U.S. and Australia EMS, including hospital handovers and lights and siren responses
Matt Zavadsky shares how MedStar ceased red lights and sirens operations during recent weather event and discusses EMS on-demand
An EMS provider, a child being transported and the truck driver were hurt in the crash which flipped the rig
The driver ran into oncoming traffic on an Ill. interstate before being tackled by officers
Two EMS providers with Mobile Medical Response sustained minor injuries
David Worley, whose 21-year-old passenger died in the wreck, was critically injured when his vehicle hit the Fond du Lac Fire Rescue rig
Two EMS providers were transported to a hospital, but none of the injuries were said to be serious
A Bargersville Fire Department ambulance became available just in the nick of time to escort Sara O’Daniels to receive a new liver and kidney
The suspect fought a nurse and two officers before fleeing the hospital sans gown and stealing an ambulance from a crew unloading a patient
Members of a least a dozen agencies from across Arizona attended a memorial for Brendan Bessee, who died in an ambulance crash
The Ulster Hose Company No. 5 crew was removing a patient from the vehicle when it rolled backward, causing broken bones and facial injuries
The police report states that two of the drivers could not see an overturned semi or a Good Samaritan, who became injured
The bus driver was not found to be impaired at the time of the incident and had received adequate rest from the prior day’s shift
The Salt River Fire Department has “a rotation right now where our guys are standing by at the hospital nonstop until he wakes up,” said Capt. Ray Martinez
Footage from a bystander on scene showed the man refusing to move out of the way of the ambulance and later resisting police officers
Two EMTs and a patient were inside the Bell ambulance when the December 2021 crash occurred
Brendan Bessee had recently transferred from the Globe Fire Department to the Salt River Fire Department
A person in the Salt River Fire Department ambulance and the other vehicle’s driver were injured
A Unified Fire Department ambulance crashed with another vehicle while en route to a local hospital
The Houston ambulance and the Ford Focus that hit it both burned, but no one was hurt
Joseph Giovannone was being transported in a South Plainfield Rescue Squad ambulance when it hit a railroad bridge
San Diego Fire-Rescue transported four people to be treated for minor injuries
Tri-Hospital EMS CEO said that a paramedic’s quick reaction to the situation kept the collision from being head-on
Two EMS providers were transporting a patient to Pittsburgh and were not hurt in the crash
The ambulance reportedly went over 100 mph and eventually crashed
Paramedic David Mimms was treating a patient when Dontorrius Belser sped through a red light, causing the fatal collision
One vehicle collided with the Bell Ambulance rig, which had its lights and siren on, making the ambulance roll and hit a third vehicle
A car crashed head-on into a Southwick Fire Department rig that was transporting a patient on Route 10
Fire Lt. Jorge Ariel, who was near the area at the time, stopped to render aid before the 21-year-old was transported to a hospital
A Washington County Sheriff’s deputy was able to reach the patient and transport them to the hospital
A Prince George’s County Fire/EMS crew was responding in low-visibility winter conditions, investigators said
