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Maia Dorsett and Nikki Little share a journey to improving care through a multi-modal NAEMSP approach
“The problem with people testing their limits is that they often find them.”
Your agency should have a policy covering communication with Deaf and hard-of-hearing people; are you familiar with it?
Addition will include a new bedroom, a fitness room for rehabilitation and a study area
Plan is designed to reduce misuse, abuse of long-acting opioid pain relievers, including morphine, methadone, oxycodone
Man who police believe was homeless, high on ‘bath salts’ was pulled from river
24-year-old developed necrotizing fasciitis in May, discharged to rehab facility after multiple amputations
She’ll spend the next several weeks learning to move herself using a wheelchair after having her left leg, right foot and both hands amputated
The drug we use most often in EMS can cause harm if we give it without good reason
Operation allegedly thrived from having corrupt doctors dispense millions of pills without medical justification to patients, many of whom were drug addicts
Approach, assessment, management of patients with behavioral emergency are consistent with those of patients with physical conditions
Victim suffering from blood-borne version of lymph node disease that wiped out 33% of Europe in 14th century
24-year-old graduate student developed necrotizing fasciitis after cutting her leg in fall May 1 from homemade zip line
How would you treat 68-year-old male complaining of chest pain, grayish in color but very warm and diaphoretic?
First doctor to reach president after he was shot found him paralyzed, comatose, leaning against his wife
Footage shows him writhing on floor, then making faces and singing to himself as he is strapped down by paramedics
24-year-old developed necrotizing fasciitis after cutting her leg in May 1 fall from homemade zip line
Doctors at an Augusta hospital helped Aimee Copeland into the chair, where she sat up for five hours
Pay attention to what each NREMT exam question is asking; study high-yield ‘nooks and crannies’
Morphine, Fentanyl, Zofran among drugs on back-order or simply not available
Drug reduces life-threatening blood clots in high-risk patients, although it also increases risk of internal bleeding
Ongoing educational efforts assure that emergency response teams and emergency rooms in the 50-hospital, 50,000-square-mile area served by the regional stroke center diagnose stroke promptly, initiate therapy and launch the transfer process
Man is reported to have told authorities that he stopped his treatment out of concern for his liver while binging on alcohol, methamphetamine
36-year-old woman noticed spot on back of her left leg after giving birth to twins last week
Results of study suggest doctors should prescribe other options for people already prone to heart problems
We know that hypothermic patients are never considered dead until they are warm and dead
Doctors were gravely concerned for patientwhen he was admitted, but he had since made remarkable progress
Family members have said she will lose her hands, remaining foot to necrotizing fasciitis
There’s nothing like hopping a ride in the back of an ambulance and observing or providing care at the scene
Research found that the mixture reduces by half the number of heart attack victims who have cardiac arrest
Local residents can stop by these basic preventive-care clinics for such things as blood pressure and blood sugar checks
The new option was announced Tuesday by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg