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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.
Everything from outdated strips to poor timing can lead to wrong glucose measurements, but here’s how to reduce errors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
What EMS needs to know about treating suicide attempts
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
You were asked to assess and treat a 44-year-old woman who has been feeling weak and lethargic; did you make the right call?
You are dispatched to a bank for a woman who is weak and lethargic.
EMS leaders at Pinnacle conference head specific recommendations to improve prehospital care from the Promoting Innovation in EMS project co-leader
Patient safety methods and lessons learned need to be applied to the evolving subspecialty of community paramedicine
EMS leaders at Pinnacle learn how the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council improves patient care through collaboration and consensus building
Here’s how EMS recognition and initiation of interventions can lower sepsis mortality
EMS1 and Fitch & Associates take an in-depth look at EMS trends in the United States and set a foundation for assessing how the EMS profession is changing
Sen. Charles Schumer pushes ban on 19 types of “spice” and three derivatives of fentanyl