EMS Equipment News & Articles

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  Gather round to learn the out-of-date and obsolete EMT skills that the Ambulance Driver has outlasted during his EMS career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

• Series of explosions rocks Texas chemical supplier

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  Ambulances were sent to the scene as a precaution, but no injuries were reported.

• Alarms sounded over Philly's aging ambulances

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  Years of budget cutbacks mean the fleet has grown dangerously old, union officials say, and breakdowns are frequent

• Suspected drunk driver slams into Houston ambulance

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  The ambulance was then hit by a truck and pushed into a SUV driving by

• Tourniquet breaks during use, NH responders warned of counterfeit devices

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  Manufacturer North American Rescue (NAR) Inc. identified 6 different conterfeit tourniquets being sold that are illegally using its CAT trademarks

• Mich. EMS and fire department gets grant for new equipment and resources

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  Since 2001, AFG has awarded nearly $6.1 billion in grants to first responder organizations for equipment, training and emergency vehicles

• Emergency calls soar for homeless in Hawaii

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  An encampment of homeless people around the University of Hawaii medical school has been exhausting emergency resources

• 8 hospitalized in Wash. chlorine gas leak

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  Nearly 100 firefighters and paramedics responded; hazmat crews hosed off workers who had stripped to their underwear and were evacuated by ambulance

• Glue, zip-ties used on old ambulances raises concern

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  This week, five of the county's 11 ambulances were out of order, several of them for ongoing issues

• Ohio fire and EMS departments add body armor

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  Officials said about a fourth of the departments have vests available to them and have been helpful on more than one occasion

• Ohio county to get $1M mobile stroke unit

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  Mercy Health Foundation is funding the vehicle, which could cut in half the time it takes to diagnose a stroke and begin treatment

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