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Access our directory of clinical articles in EMS, which offers in-depth information on patient assessment, treatment protocols, and emerging medical practices. This collection covers various clinical topics essential for EMS professionals, from advanced pharmacology to trauma management. Staying up-to-date with clinical knowledge is vital for delivering high-quality patient care. For additional resources, explore our section on Medical Research. Enhance your clinical expertise with our expert-driven content.
Steps to implementing unified command, staging and access learned from the Route 91 Harvest Festival attack
Examining how IM epinephrine increases treatment timing, frequency and survival
This advanced life support framework can help improve your trauma care
Key takeaways for police and EMS from SWAT physician, Dr. Faroukh M. Mehkri
Sick, hurt children couldn’t understand why they were getting shots – so this doc found a simpler way to administer medication while reducing the risk of cross-infection to caregivers
Novel use of video laryngoscopy with recording capability to improve clinical oversight in EMS airway management
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?
Three EMTs, three dispatchers and one paramedic received the awards during a ceremony at Fitzwilliam Town Hall.
Colorado Solictor General Shannon Stevenson said the Aurora paramedics administered too much ketamine for McClain’s body weight
Chris and Kelly tackle EMS safety, resiliency, onboarding, the duty to act and more hot topics in Inside EMS
Springfield EMT Peggy Finley had a $60K bond refunded due to recent legislation
Parker County Hospital District paramedics faced an amputation and having to perform bilateral finger thoracostomies
Tips for navigating prehospital airway management techniques and challenges
Jury selection begins Monday for Aurora Fire Department paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Lt. Peter Cichuniec
Medic Squad 63 of Kern County Fire Department resuscitated a cardiac arrest patient before transporting them to the hospital
As the National Guard helicopter was shuttling gifts to children in a rural town, the pilots shifted focus and added two paramedics to the flight to get them to a patient in another nearby town
What the research says about calcium in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
How to protect yourself and your patients, and take action
What patient abandonment isn’t, and why it’s time to confront this EMS boogeyman
Marcellus Ambulance personnel faced a driver pinned upside down in a burning vehicle
There’s someone out there who would like to really hear from you, and Steve Whitehead will tell you who in this episode
Rescuers in Chaffee County were sent to rescue an ill-prepared hiker trapped by a snowstorm
Wireless handheld ultrasound equipment brings diagnostic imaging to patients regardless of location
POCUS, ECG and assessment findings to look for to avoid the RV spiral of death
Exploring the infection control benefits of chlorhexidine, alcohol, betadine and povidone iodine-alcohol
Montgomery County Hospital District shares their findings trialing carotid ultrasound during CPR to enhance cardiac arrest response
The three patients were flown from the scene in Kissimmee to a hospital in Orlando
Six Paso Robles students were evaluated after inhaling a “sulfur substance” in a locker room
Gold Cross Paramedic Jeff Wilson used lessons learned with his son who is autistic to help others in EMS
Croton-on-Hudson first responders were initially unable to reach the injured hiker, who fell 50 feet down an embankment, because the trail was washed out
First responders safely moved the patient down a rugged trail on Lookout Mountain
A coordinated effort involving several departments saved a construction worker pinned by a foundation collapse
