Driving Simulation Articles

• Ambulance simulator teaches EMS providers to drive in dangerous conditions

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  EMS West began using EMS Virtual Drive to teach EMS providers how to drive with inclement weather, distracted drivers and pedestrians

• How MedStar reduced ambulance collisions

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  MedStar Mobile Health Care shares their experiences to improve driving safety and reduce repair costs through training, technology and culture change

• Paramedic Chief Digital: How new designs promise to improve patient and provider safety

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  This issue explores efforts to improve ambulance safety, shining a light both on technological advances and ways to improve driver behavior

• How to protect sleep-deprived EMS personnel

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  The effects of sleep deprivation are akin to alcohol intoxication; build a safe sleep room and a culture of watching over tired medics

• EMS use of red lights and sirens is a dangerous sacred cow

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  The evidence tells us that not using red lights and sirens should be the rule – and using them should be an infrequent exception

• Report critical of ambulance, fire truck crashes

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  Responsible for about one in five of the 829 firefighter fatalities in the past decade, fire truck crashes are more deadly than fighting a fire

• Frequent Flyers: Bump in the road

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  A comic for EMS drawing off the real experiences of EMS

• Medic never put down smartphone while driving child to hospital

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  Video captured by patient's mother and shared on Facebook shows the Philly firefighter using his smartphone while transporting the boy; the Fire Commissioner promises discipline

• Driver crashes vehicle posing for a selfie, passengers injured

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  The Maine driver leaned over to be in the photo before driving off the road

• Man critical after struggle in ambulance

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  The man jumped to the front seat, grabbed the gear shift and put his hand on the gas pedal; the driver was able to stop the ambulance

• Motorcylce ride honors Pa. medic who died on duty

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  All proceeds will go to the Janice Keen Livingston Memorial Park, which will be built to honor public safety providers who lost their lives helping others

• Report: Traffic deaths rise sharply in first part of 2015

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  Traffic deaths were up 14 percent nationally in the first six months of the year, a result of more people on the road due to an improved economy and low gas prices

• Inside EMS Podcast: How to safely drive an ambulance with lights and sirens

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  Hosts Chris and Kelly give advice to a new EMT on best driving practices to avoid becoming an ambulance crash statistic

• Is an ambulance the right vehicle for psych patient transfers?

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  EMS chiefs need to examine the clinical, safety, and economic rationale for medically-stable psych patient interfacility transfers

• PHOTO: Car crash like a "Dukes of Hazzard" scene

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  No injuries were reported after the driver of a Camaro landed on top of a parked Subaru

• Investigation: Fla. emergency responders have high rate of distracted-driving crashes

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  About 18 percent of Collier and Lee county police, fire, and EMS vehicle collisions involve distracted driving compared to 11 percent for all drivers

• Rural/Metro in Tenn. denies service delays

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  The company said reports that is has been failing contractual duties are erroneous, as the county investigates two incidents where no ambulances were available

• Wis. firefighter shot while moving patient to ambulance

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  The firefighter suffered a graze wound to the head as crews responded to a patient having trouble breathing

• Responding Neb. ambulance collides with 2 vehicles

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  Two personnel from the ambulance, including a ride-along student, were injured in the ambulance collision; 3 women were injured in the initial collision

• NHTSA to host free webinar on ambulance crash data used to improve safety

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  Officials will present detailed investigations of individual incidents to help EMS providers better understand and prevent ambulance crashes

• Fla. man crashes into storefront, injuring eight

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  85-year-old may have experienced a medical emergency before crashing his SUV

• ND ambulance crashes with mom and baby on board

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  No report on the condition of the patients or crew; intersection collision in area known for collisions

• School bus cam captures 60 mph head-on collision

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  Out of control SUV slammed into the front of a stopped school bus; driver may have had a medical emergency

• Ind. school bus and ambulance collide; 15 hurt

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  23-year-old ambulance driver was driving with suspended license

• Prince William begins job as medflight pilot

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  The second-in-line to the throne is flying a helicopter for the East Anglian Air Ambulance

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