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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.
Because most EMS providers infrequently encounter sick pediatric patients, it is important to regularly refresh knowledge of anatomy, pathophysiology and life-saving treatments
Healthcare providers should be aware of mpox symptoms and how to properly treat patients
Steve Whitehead shares how to assess that patient with weird, vague complaints
You are dispatched to a bank for a man who is weak and lethargic
Here is the “never-do” list if you want to have a long and prosperous career in EMS
A screenshot of the call log showed the woman called five minutes earlier than what the dispatch office claimed
Your patient has neurological deficits after a traumatic injury. Should you use a backboard?
Progressive programs like community paramedicine and MIH are important steps towards fixing a flawed, inefficient health care system
Every ground ambulance and helicopter crash has different causal factors, but we must look at system design and safety behaviors to prevent further crashes
The two took numerous photos and recordings of over 20 unconscious or incapacitated patients
Learn the importance of electrolytes for homeostasis and how to recognize when sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, phosphate and magnesium levels are too high or too low
Five paramedics and one firefighter pulled the ambulance over to help the woman give birth
Recognize the signs and symptoms of pneumonia and understand how capnography can be used to guide treatment for pneumonia and sepsis.
Here are the seven expectations all ambulance services should strive to meet when dealing with Medicare, Medicaid and other federal payers
The agency will receive four new heart monitors, which cost roughly $36,000 a piece
Crowds in the parking lot slowed EMTs; hot temperatures and ecstasy implicated in deaths
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Augmented reality, with heads-up display devices and conductive swath devices, has the potential to improve patient assessment and care
Patients do not die from failure to intubate, but failure to oxygenate. When in doubt, pull out the tube.
Because sepsis is a common patient presentation, it is important for EMTs and paramedics to learn and review its signs and symptoms
The viral sensation of 2014 raised $115 million for ALS research
There’s no level of training as intense as actually responding to a mass casualty incident
The service is challenging the nearly $300,000 penalty recommended by OSHA after failing a federal inspection
A complete patient assessment and consideration of multiple causes will help make sure the patient’s altered mental status is correctly assessed
Capnography is a tool to monitor ventilation and perfusion in ill and injured patients
The 57-year-old is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in the back of an ambulance
