EMS Equipment News & Articles

• Cold and injured: Motor vehicle accidents in the winter

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  Hypothermic patients, multi-systems trauma and slippery scenes present difficult decision-making challenges for rescuers

• What’s in your tactical medical kit?

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  When you’re on an operation and you can only take what you can carry, what do you choose?

• Can respiratory support devices create air hunger through flow dyssynchrony?

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  The work of breathing can go up and oxygen saturation can go down when the patient and the equipment are not in sync

• 4 things to explain to patients to increase their comfort and compliance

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  Put yourself in the patient’s position to gain an understanding of how their fear may complicate your interventions

• Single pressure CPAP vs. bilevel pressure CPAP: The rest of the story

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  Understanding the pathophysiology of difficulty breathing and different methods of delivering airway pressure

• 5 errors that are giving you incorrect blood pressure readings

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  Blood pressure may be the vital sign we measure the most and understand the least

• Using ultraviolet light to decontaminate ambulances

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  What you need to consider when purchasing UV-C devices for cleaning ambulances to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and other pathogens

• How to buy pediatric equipment (eBook)

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  Download this EMS1 pediatric equipment buying guide to learn key steps for product selection, purchasing and implementation

• How to recommend new EMS equipment for your agency

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  Everyone likes new equipment. But before you run to your boss to make your case, ask yourself these questions. If you are like me, you walk out of a trade show with an arm full of brochures, a bag ...

• How to buy capnography equipment (eBook)

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  Download this EMS1 capnography equipment buying guide to learn key steps for product selection, purchasing and implementation

• Funding EMS training, equipment through state funds grants

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  State funding is a great choice for EMS agencies that do not meet eligibility requirements or have applied for and not been awarded funds from major grant programs

• Ark. rescue squads begin fundraiser for equipment

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  The rescue squad will be offering family portraits for $30, which will go towards the purchase of equipment

• EMS needs planning, preparation to mitigate the effects of terrorist attacks

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  A National Academy of Medicine paper describes best practices for EMS responses to active shooter, bombing and terror attacks

• Prove It: Real-time feedback devices improve CPR training

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  Researchers measured the impact several CPR feedback or prompt devices had on chest compression depth, compression rate recoil and hand position

• Do EMS agencies and fire departments need special vehicles for mass gatherings?

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  Once the department decides it needs them, training on how to safely use them in the environment where they'll be deployed is critical

• Ohio health network adds EMS vehicle fleet

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  The network is adding 17 ambulances and 2 MICUS for interfacility transports

• 3 rules for telling a memorable EMS grant story

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  Write a compelling narrative with passion, conflict and resolution to engage grant application reviewers in your project

• 10 obsolete EMT skills

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  Gather round to learn the out-of-date and obsolete EMT skills that the Ambulance Driver has outlasted during his EMS career

• How medical device failures cause patient injuries

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  Improperly used or maintained patient care and devices can cause harm to patients and providers

• Army to equip all combat medics with junctional tourniquets

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  The junctional tourniquets are designed for rapid application and to stem bleeding from traumatic groin and armpit injuries

• Creative Pet Products delivers first aid kits tailored for police, military K-9s

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  The kits contain gauze, scissors, antiseptic iodine solution, cold packs, hydrogen peroxide, mouth attachments and more

• Kinequip launches new Smart Voltage Meter

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  The meter offers digital and low voltage alarms and built-in back light intensity control

• Ambulance Design: What needs to be fixed or added?

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  EMS1 LinkedIn members suggest safety and comfort improvements to the patient care and driver compartments, ambulance exterior and more

• 40 emergency vehicles, 120 rescue workers respond to bus crash in Romania

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  3 children were killed and triage was established for those injured after the bus overturned around a curve on a wet road

• Pa. EMS agency boosts pediatric service

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  The department will stock pediatric-specific equipment such as splints and cervical collars on ambulances as part of a voluntary program

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