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Janet Taylor shares assessment and management tips for mastering seizure thresholds, classification and treatment approaches
What if scheduling and finalizing a transport could be done in 60 seconds?
Chris and Kelly tackle EMS safety, resiliency, onboarding, the duty to act and more hot topics in Inside EMS
Doctors in Miami told the family late last week that the boy had extensive brain damage
Students are proudly displaying health issues as temporary tattoos for their own safety
Cardiac assist device provides mechanical support for a heart in crisis
Sarah has started to walk around the hospital with the aid of a walker and has even gone outside briefly
He injected himself with powerful painkillers like Morphine, Dilaudid, Fentanyl and Versed, and then replaced the syringes with a saline solution
Family members said he was infected while knee boarding with friends in a ditch near his family’s home
Officials believe she got sick after trip to now-shuttered Ark. water park. Amoeba enters body through nose while swimming.
One man took off his belt to make a tourniquet while a food cart vendor placed her severed leg on ice in a cooler
The most severe injury was from a bullet that appeared to enter through the left inside of his mouth and exit the lower section of his face on the left side
In order to hide her misuse, she intentionally damaged and falsified her records, using fictitious names for patients to whom she claimed to have given the morphine to
Doctors extracted the fork free using forceps and ‘copious lubrication’ while the man was under general anesthetic
The hospital is investigating where the infection came from, but the bacteria lives naturally in the skin and throat
It offers the hope that one day doctors might track consciousness nearly as easily as they check blood pressure
The amoeba typically enters the body through the nose as people are swimming or diving
The exercises put stress on dispatchers, the hospital system and on the fire department and civilian volunteers
Your understanding of standard operating procedure may evolve from rulebook to guidebook
Discontinue ambulance, paramedic and emergency medical technician services
The ambulance allegedly took more than twice the response time it should have because medics went to the wrong address
Thirty-five percent of those killed, or 1,547 pedestrians, had blood alcohol content levels of .08 or higher, the legal limit for driving
Doctors discovered a blockage in an artery
Sherri Muzher has MS and wants to donate her organs while they are still viable
Sixteen others were hospitalized after being exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide in a packing facility at a farm
Despite a lack of hard numbers, there’s anecdotal evidence that the illegal procedures are becoming more common
His heart stopped beating for 10 to 15 minutes before he was resuscitated
The former EMT quickly took action, because the unborn infant’s foot was seen through the gash on her abdomen
