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What the 2005 London attack teaches EMS leaders about scalable incident command and mutual-aid coordination
This EMS One-Stop international edition features Steinar Olsen, director for EMS and national preparedness in the Norwegian Directorate of Health
The Rwandan Ministry of Health’s Jean Marie Uwitonze and Dr. Sudha Jayaraman discuss the jewel in the crown of African Ambulance Services
Alkan Air makes plane doors wider and purchased a mechanical lift to transfer patients weighing over 350 pounds
The village was being used as a staging post for rescuers to get supplies to remote communities after Saturday’s earthquake
Rescue workers are still struggling to reach mountain villages two days after the 7.8 earthquake as many countries send medical teams to Nepal
He hurried to de-escalate the situation and talked to agitated man until police arrived
The agency says a new payroll deduction program is a voluntary donation that asks paramedics to pay for EMS equipment
Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 2 to assist local emergency operations in and around the hardest hit areas of the country
Nepalese dug through the rubble for missing people as aftershocks panicked survivors
The violent earthquake collapsed houses, leveled centuries-old temples and triggered avalanches in the Himalayas
Two paramedics suffered minor injuries and the ambulance was destroyed after it was hit and pushed into a tree as the crew was pulling out of the station
The Islamic extremist who planned to open fire on Paris churchgoers mistakenly shot himself in the leg; he remains hospitalized after police followed a trail of blood to his car and found loaded guns and notes about potential targets
They got them into an inflatable boat minutes before the car was submerged; torrential rain has caused flooding across the Sydney region
The call taker at first assumed it was a report of a hit-and-run involving a person with a broken neck, but soon realized that was not the case
EMS providers transported a patient with severe abdominal pain to the hospital, and returned to find a brick through the windshield of their ambulance
Police detain a student, allegedly carrying a knife and a crosswbow, suspected of killing a teacher and wounding 4 others
While other onlookers ran to get phone coverage to call for the help, the off-duty paramedic tied a canvas jacket to a backpack to form a makeshift winch, and dragged the woman up the side of the cliff
The call taker thought the ‘bird’ was a woman collapsed and gave emergency care instructions until the paramedic arrived
The driver of the ambulance in India lost control of the ambulance and hit a roadside tree
The bus driver was seriously injured in the collision with the stolen private ambulance
Video shows the flaming wreckage of the tour bus carrying young athletes; it caught fire after hitting a tanker truck carrying hydrocarbons
Now facing a misconduct hearing he explains he did not respond to a call, saying there wasn’t enough time for crews to care for the patient and finish their 12-hour night shift on time
Crews were retrieving a 92-year-old man with chest pain, and returned to find him and a girl kissing on a stretcher
The proposed ‘Bystander Insurance’ will pay medical fees to civilians that become injured or infected while helping others
She struggled to cope after serving as an army medic in Iraq, and speaks openly about her drug addiction to raise public awareness
Most of those killed were students but the death toll also included two police officers, one soldier and two watchmen
A witness offered to drive her, but she told him to stay at the scene and set off on foot