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Practical takeaways from the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting for initial treatment and safe transportation
How paramedics can take action to protect patients from falling through the cracks
Steve Whitehead shares tips to get your patient to change their way of thinking
State-specific restrictions, Medicare reimbursement, turf battles and public and patient acceptance must be tackled for any program to be successful
Like his father, the 21-year-old declined medical treatment and relied on prayer for healingThe 21-year-old is recovering from a bite and relied on prayer for healing
You arrive on scene to find staff performing CPR; did you get your priorities right?
The first bill to seriously look at EMS issues since the 1960s, the act would improve access to essential and life-saving EMS services and better integrate EMS within the larger health care system
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“I love my job,” Timothy Greenlee said at the hearing. “I can return to be a better firefighter than I was before my addiction.”
The worker died in the back of an ambulance after transporting a patient; life-saving efforts performed by the partner were unsuccessful
Brayden Denton died after a battle with brain cancer; he was hopefully looking down thinking ‘this is so cool’
Legislators backed the rule change in an attempt to maintain services in rural communities that, without a hospital, may otherwise be left with no emergency care
For now, medics will travel to more distant hosptials
From heavy traffic, to poor equipment, to terrorism victims, ‘ambulance drivers’ in Karachi have seen it all
Proposals include a fall-prevention program, follow-up care after hospital discharges, and partnerships with nonprofit social service agencies
Police speculate that a medical condition caused Charles Glass, 65, to lose consciousness while behind the wheel
Manchester EMT Carolyn Edwards is in critical condition after a collision with a car
Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson bring expert perspective to hot topics, clinical issues, operational and leadership lessons to EMS personnel and leaders to be safe and successful
Her car flipped along a scenic highway; rescuers found her responsive and say she had a strong will to survive
Although EMS is never mentioned in the ACA, the law has several revenue and service opportunities for fire-based EMS
Programs have been popping up throughout the state to find more efficient ways to treat non-emergency patients
At least 400 cases of the respiratory illness have been reported, and more than 100 people have died since MERS first surfaced two years ago
Knowing the type of amputation, ways to quickly control bleeding, and proper body part preservation can lead to an increase in survival rates
They organized a bone marrow drive after EMT and volunteer firefighter Will Frawley, 28, was diagnosed with a type of cancer
The state will start tracking ambulance VIN numbers to stop companies from shutting down to avoid paying back large audits, then reopening under a different name
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It’s alarmingly simple for someone with criminal intent to get into the medical transportation business, which could lead more regulations and less reimbursement
Officials say it explains why a newly released report shows Medicaid paid more to ambulance companies than cancer doctors or orthopedic surgeons
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