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.
You can’t help anyone if you don’t get there safely; always practice defensive driving, especially when you’re responding to an emergency call
Ambulance collisions, which happen with frightening regularity, often result in injury and are occasionally fatal, especially for private vehicle drivers
Insufficient sleep impacts decision-making, wellness and risk-taking, putting providers and patients at risk
A Trans Care ambulance was stopped in the zone when it was struck from behind
Data shows Oregon has the highest rate of death per 100,000 people
Syracuse firefighters were transporting a child to a hospital when they collided with an SUV
Officials say the decline comes even as more people are driving
High winds and dust made visibility difficult at a highway intersection south of Midland
Police said a tractor-trailer pulled into the path of the Somerset-Pulaski County EMS ambulance
The ambulance was transporting a patient from Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield to Birmingham when it collided with a motorcycle
Jessamine County EMS moved from 24-hour shifts to help fight fatigue in EMS personnel
A Lifeguard Ambulance EMT was ejected after the ambulance they were in hit a guardrail and overturned
Paramedic Dina Filo-O’Neil was in the back of the Lower Kiski ambulance when it struck a guardrail
Nine months after Kansas City firefighter/medic Andy Zuniga was injured, the officer involved in had another pursuit crash
Electric vehicles tore through guardrails and hardly slowed after hitting concrete barriers
Four people were injured in the crash on I-75 in Dayton
One of the AMR paramedics was critically injured in the crash with a wrong-way driver on I-10
The time has come for electric vehicles in EMS
Tucson Police Department stated a vehicle traveling the wrong way collided with an AMR ambulance
911 audio from Fairfax County shows the caller wanting to “remain a little subtle,” and have the patient transported to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Findings from an analysis of over 5 million 911 calls offer a reduction in use of lights, siren for EMS personnel safety
One simple trick we can take from our fire service friends to stabilize a vehicle
Help keep you, your crew and your patient safe at motor vehicle collision scenes
Traditional methods of decontamination may miss key threats – automated methods can provide a solution
Approximately 45% of the state’s MVA’s had a confirmed or suspected distracted driver
Roseboro Rescue and EMS shifted operations after a fire destroyed a rig and damaged their station
An ambulance security New Year’s resolution
13,400 people were killed in DUI crashes in 2021, costing $280 billion in medical expenses, lost wages and loss of quality of life
At the time of the incident, a patient was in the back of the ambulance, the Detroit Fire Department said
The Howard County ambulance was parked with its rear yellow warning lights activated when the car struck the back
ACETECH reps will be in BOOTH #26 at the Arrowhead EMS Conference & Expo in Duluth, Minnesota January 17-21
The 19-year-old medical transport van driver was facing charges of vehicular homicide and failure to maintain a lane
