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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
Instead of safety seats, medics have been told to strap children to pediatric harnesses; many medics say they are too large for children under four
He called medics after he couldn’t stop the bleeding
The Doctors Without Borders physician returned six days ago from treating Ebola patients in Guinea; he is being treated in a designated isolation ward in Manhattan
Authorities believe there were three gunmen involved in three shootings Wednesday morning
The soldier was transported by ambulance and his condition is not immediately known; the gunman then entered Parliament
Responders rescued 407 people stranded on a popular trekking route after snowstorms and avalanches swept the Himalayas
The car is able to race to injured people at 185 mph and will be used by 50 specially-trained paramedics
They fell 65 feet after a ventilation grate collapsed at an outdoor concert
An ambulance and fire engine were cleaned and put back into service after an ill woman who had traveled to Africa tested negative for the virus
Military personnel and police were on hand to help with ambulance services after EMTs, nurses and health workers held a four-hour strike in response to not receiving pay raises
The mother of the six-year-old was terrified to move her screaming daughter while waiting for medics to arrive
The 134 replacement ambulances were designed with paramedic feedback and will resemble European ambulances
Thomas Eric Duncan was the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S.; his condition went from serious to critical over the weekend and he died Wednesday morning
She was part of a team that treated two missionaries flown home to Spain after becoming infected with Ebola in West Africa
A video journalist who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia is the fifth American to return to the U.S. for treatment
The ambulance crew member spends about $4 each day feeding the abandoned felines
The 25-year-old was overcome by fumes and lost her balance
The suspended Nova Scotia medic allegedly assaulted six female patients
Graphic footage shows truck driving over the top of a row of cars, then veering off course into a group on onlookers
She became too ill to work after an accident where she was first on the scene after an ambulance plunged over a cliff and sank to the bottom of a lake
She was dug up after children heard calls for help from a grave an hour after her funeral, but a doctor says she could not have been alive