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The need for data-driven decisions in managing aggressive patients while ensuring safety and compliance
Understand the causes, signs and symptoms, and prehospital treatment for kidney injury
Remembering shock pioneer, R Adams Cowley, 30-years after his death
Tabitha Britt said the EMS workers’ actions when administering ketamine to her husband amounted to an “unlawful, unjustified, and unreasonable use of force”
The UCSF physician team discusses how to give avulsed teeth the best chance at reimplantation
“This is a monumental occasion as we partner with The Blood Center to administer blood,” said Dr. Emily Nichols, New Orleans EMS director
Under the new program, engines, trucks and ambulances will no longer be sent to low-risk medical calls in downtown Portland and outer Southeast Portland
The Ohio Valley has been hard hit by the latest surge in COVID-19, and that’s impacting all aspects of the health care system
“Nero’s Bill” would make it legally possible for personnel to provide emergency treatment and transport to K-9 officers
All 60 members of the Ames Fire Department are on track to be EMT-certified by January
To help manage high call volumes, AMR will operate a two-tiered system in Spokane to reserve paramedics for ALS calls
Empire BlueCross BlueShield and Mount Sinai Health System have reached an agreement to offer community paramedicine, ET3 and treat-in-place options
Each EMT-certified trooper will now carry advanced equipment for trauma, airway management and other medical emergencies
Crews argue they’re being taken advantage of and potentially taken out of action when a real disaster strikes; political battle begins
Keep these considerations in mind, and you can be confident in a choice the end users will be pleased with
The kits are part of the city’s new Safe Chicago program, and are equipped with a tourniquet, gauze, shears, gloves and an instruction manual
“It’s a big scary mess, and we honestly don’t know if the help is there beyond waiting out the current circumstance and hoping more people come in to the medical field”
Consider incorporating these three ways to use a digital stethoscope in your EMS training exercises and testing
Medstar of Michigan providers are delivering the doctor-prescribed antibody treatments to patients’ homes, which help reduce the chance of contracting the virus and fight it
Abdominal pain can be a benign case of indigestion, or immediately life-threatening, such as a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
The emergency use authorization for the monoclonal antibody therapy has been expanded to include prevention for those exposed to COVID-19
The protocol has been adopted by 18 other counties in Michigan amid a spike in overdoses earlier this year
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the decision this week, hoping to increase the number of trained vaccinators ahead of a push for COVID-19 booster shots
Crockett County EMS and Haywood County Ambulance Authority are administering antibody infusion therapy to reduce hospital overcrowding
South Kingstown EMS trio came to the aid of State Police Col. James Manni who was experiencing anaphylaxis
The chief officers, firefighters, EMTs and paramedics who responded to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol describe responding to the ill and injured
What paramedics needs to know as reports of self-medication for COVID-19 rise
A whole blood program benefits patients, is easy to institute and saves lives
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reported patients treated in a mobile stroke unit receive treatment faster and have lower mortality
One initiative states facilities receiving funds through Medicare or Medicaid will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19, which likely includes EMS, according to legal scholars
The NASEMSO project team seeks input on draft Version 3 of the Model EMS Clinical Guidelines
The Colo. grand jury indictment of two paramedics calls ketamine a “deadly weapon,” a category normally used for guns and knives in criminal complaints
