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.
Harnessing next-generation clinical guidance to reduce chaos and enhance confidence for EMS providers
Move with purpose to prevent an apparatus crash, slip or fall, and protect the patient from increased discomfort
Insufficient sleep impacts decision-making, wellness and risk-taking, putting providers and patients at risk
Here’s a look at how the rules are changing, training for oil train crashes, and some of the more recent crashes around the country
He responded to a call for woman who was knocked off her bike by a van
The vehicle went up in flames moments after the crew dropped off a patient
The county’s EMS chief describes the cheaper, lighter and more compact vehicle that includes unique safety features as “the most innovative ambulance design in 40 years”
The European Union will require all new vehicles be retrofitted by 2018 with crash sensors that transmit the location, time, direction and number of people in the vehicle
The 21-year-old was hit around 4 a.m. as the ambulance was returning from an emergency call
Cabell County EMS says the ambulance had lights and sirens running when it struck a 16-year-old crossing a busy street by his home
The rig’s driver and a paramedic stopped the truck to evaluate the firefighter until another EMS unit arrived on scene
Two trucks crashed in dense fog on Interstate 80, causing a chain reaction crash that also injured 16 people and caused a tanker truck to catch fire
A chair with a harness on the right side will allow EMTs to be safely secured while treating patients during transport
Officials will present detailed investigations of individual incidents to help EMS providers better understand and prevent ambulance crashes
Ambulance en route to the crash scene for the overturned fire truck also involved in an accident
He was trapped inside the unit following a collision with a minivan, and complained of chest pains
The guidebooks recommend ambulance physical design standards and procedures while operating an ambulance
Video captures the ambulance engulfed in flames and loud explosions are heard as firefighters begin suppression
She lost control of the vehicle, went over the shoulder of the road and plunged several hundred feet over an embankment
Whether he is cited for the crash with an ambulance carrying a mother and her child will depend on the outcome of an investigation into the crash
Eight members of Wormreich and Khaotika were also injured when their van went down an embankment and crashed into a tree
It was suspended because he missed a court appearance for not updating his address on his license and he never told supervisors
A witness offered to drive her, but she told him to stay at the scene and set off on foot
The “BackSafe” system is now ready for market and allows a driver and spotter to communicate by color code over two wireless devices
He crossed the center lane while driving around a curve and hit an oncoming ambulance, police say
He’s seeking $305,000 for injuries sustained in a 2013 fatal collision when a car crashed into the rig, causing him “to fly ... within the ambulance, colliding with objects”
Crews were about to transport a driver injured in another crash when a vehicle going around 75 miles per hour hit the ambulance
An ambulance that was hit by a car flipped onto its side and landed on another vehicle
The $310,000 simulation rig is coming to 135 ambulance services in Western Pennsylvania to improve safety and reduce ambulance crashes
The driver of the SUV and a person in the ambulance were both flown to hospitals; severity of injuries is unknown
