EMS Management
The EMS management topic focuses on leadership within EMS agencies, bringing together a range of relevant columns and resources as well as the latest news on EMS department operations, budget issues and new appointments.
From issues of trust, conflict and commitment to accountability avoidance and inattention, dysfunction can render a team utterly ineffective
Infectious disease expert Dr. Alexander P. Isakov shares tips for encountering monkeypox
President of the Austin EMS Association, Capt. Selena Xie is always looking for ways to elevate the EMS impact on the community
They claim medics forcibly injected their son with a sedative and kicked him as he lay “completely unresponsive”
Mom said she was transferred, put on hold and told ‘they couldn’t find the EMS for my son’
The team will have 12 paramedics and EMTs
Several departments in the Jacksonville area are implementing a “trained auxiliaries” program
Residents have until Oct. 31 to opt out of the city’s program that provides emergency ambulance service for $3 a month
Report doesn’t say whether paramedics or dispatchers should be moved elsewhere within department or let go
The pilot team of motorcyclists will be assigned to a highway demolition
The new labeling system will categorize calls by level of seriousness
Suits allege that they were harassed and ostracized when they reported alleged misappropriations
The NY county Narcan pilot program shows promising effects
Patients said paramedics arrived within five minutes, but were forced to wait for EMT to take them to hospital
Mistakes resulted in a 54-minute delay for stroke patient who died the next day
A tribunal ruled that the paramedic who allegedly slapped a 69-year-old patient was fairly let go
Staff working for NHS Direct in the North East are being asked to take a pay cut if they want to work for the new NHS 111 service
The case arose after two subsidiaries of the Nashville-based hospital chain gave financial benefits to Diagnostic Associates of Chattanooga
After two months of research, the county was found financially prepared to handle the ambulance service
Municipal ambulance service alleges that competing company has stolen 25 percent of calls this year
Officials say an inadequate examination and lack of protocol contributed to the baby’s death
A local veterinary hospital donated 33 oxygen masks to the Murrieta Fire Dept.
The video reportedly shows a paramedic aggressively handling an intoxicated woman
Company knew its EMTs were not properly certified in accordance with state law but billed state for hundreds of transports
AMR will continue to answer emergency and non-emergency 911 medical calls in short term
Dozens of Filipino hospital workers will share the nearly $1 million settlement
The EMTs are now trying to file a lawsuit to start working again
The study raises concerns on time-consuming scripted questions dispatchers must ask before giving CPR instructions
Community abuzz over lack of background checks when plenty of our colleagues manage to besmirch EMS’s reputation with clean arrest records
Hand injury 32 years ago kept medic from returning to work and awarded him permanent disability checks
The only paramedic to reach dying Liverpool fans has revealed how those behind the Hillsborough cover-up ‘got to him’
Hospitals are so full that elderly patients are being discharged in the middle of the night and routine blood tests are being conducted at 3am
Dontay Martin was one of the four people in the car that conducted a drive-by shooting of an ambulance
