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When assessing and treating patients in a cold environment, do these simple things to help prevent heat loss and improve heat retention
Everything from outdated strips to poor timing can lead to wrong glucose measurements, but here’s how to reduce errors
Clinical, operational and legal solutions for high utilizers of the 911 system
The bill would require air ambulance providers and insurance companies to negotiate payments for services
First responders were inside a residence aiding a patient when the vehicle was stolen
Alternative pain management therapies are included that clinicians can utilize in place of opioids
The program offers an epinephrine kit free of cost to those with insurance or families who make less than $100,000
You are the first arriving unit to a potentially chaotic scene; does your scene size-up for other units measure up?
You are dispatched to stage for police responding to reports of a fight in the parking lot of the local university
The program will serve as a six-month trial of how firefighters and paramedics can assist medical facilities with at-home patient care
Co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss the week’s top news stories
Dispatchers would send the ambulance or fire truck that would arrive the quickest, a computer calculation based on mapping and the use of automatic vehicle location devices
The organization is trying to formalize the health and safety checks its volunteers already conduct during their daily home visits to seniors
CVS says the new price it is charging for the Adrenaclick generic applies to both insured patients and those who pay cash without coverage
Our co-hosts discuss uses, challenges and letting EMTs administer ketamine
Test your ability to apply the START algorithm to a collection of simulated MCI patients
Discuss your duty to extricate a patient from a remote location and what equipment is available to you
Follow these methods to successfully assess and treat older patients
EMS providers were in the back of the ambulance treating a patient with a life-threatening condition at the time of the incident
EMS professionals would be allowed to administer controlled substances to patients with standing from a medical director
The app allows EMS providers to enter a child’s age or weight and computes the correct medication dose
An official said drones could be used to transport expensive and rarely used drugs, such as an antidote to rattlesnake bites
The hearing concluded that some air ambulance bills were too high and some insurance companies offered too little reimbursement
Measuring the time to epinephrine administration as a continuous variable shows time-dependent nature of epinephrine administration
Developers said the drone can be used to transport victims from a hot zone or deliver military forces and medical supplies
As EMS will always be the ultimate health care safety net, there are new and expanding opportunities as health care and EMS enter version 3.0
EMTs can easily learn how to use capnography as a patient assessment and monitoring tool
Better understanding and further scientific study of the mesentery could lead to less invasive surgeries, fewer complications and faster patient recovery
Babies at high risk need a check-up before any peanut exposure, and might get their first taste in the doctor’s office
Follow the mantra “a patient isn’t dead unless they are warm and dead” based on assessment findings and knowing resuscitation contraindications
Officials said the unnecessary calls have placed a strain on EMS providers, and places callers who have an actual medical emergency at risk
