EMS News
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BREAKING NEWS
New Hampshire is the first New England state to ban surprise ambulance bills, with a new rate starting Jan. 1 to protect patients and support EMS
Chiefs say Dr. Carl Schultz endangers patients, demoralizes crews by refusing prehospital blood transfusions, ketamine, magnesium and opioid-care pilots already used statewide
Attorneys for 31-year-old Dontae Melton Jr. say officers restrained the man and waited nearly an hour for an ambulance that never came
The 18-year veteran had been placed on paid leave when officials learned he hadn’t disclosed criminal allegations that he tried to sell an opioid-addiction drug to an undercover agent
Thompson Valley EMS warns of longer runs to the city’s only remaining emergency room at UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies
A pilot escaped injury when their plane crashed at Centennial Airport
Ninth Circuit upholds Snohomish Regional Fire and Rescue’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, denies firefighters’ exemptions
State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo plans to lift school immunization rules, a move public-health experts warn could trigger outbreaks of preventable diseases
Cheatham County EMS and the Pleasant View Volunteer Fire Department have partnered with the county to fund, staff and host a daytime unit, with plans to expand to 24/7 coverage
TRENDING NEWS
COLUMNISTS & EXPERTS
Even if PTSD becomes a workers’ compensational eligible occupational disease, EMS leaders need to change the culture for traumatic stress treatment
It’s time for EMS providers to advocate for their rights to equitable wages and a safer workplace
Review from The BMJ confirms what many paramedics, firefighters and police officers already know about shift work and its effect on sleep
Low hourly wages is a main contributor to most career EMS providers working two or more jobs
Follow the mantra “a patient isn’t dead unless they are warm and dead” based on assessment findings and knowing resuscitation contraindications
Hypothermia death of a Minn. teen is an unimaginable tragedy, but a breach is not enough for a finding of negligence
PRODUCT NEWS
Over 400 wildfires in Canada have affected air quality in several states
Laguna Beach theater students used their makeup, costume skills to play the part of patients for EMT students
Durham EMS is not at the point it was several months ago when ambulances were breaking down on calls
Human metapneumovirus has many of the same symptoms as COVID and RSV
A tourniquet was applied and the worker was flown to the University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital
Ukiah hospital’s ‘Trauma Expo’ brings first responders and ED staff together to experience each others’ jobs during an MCI training drill
An unfinished two-story house in Conroe collapsed on workers, trapping them under piles of lumber
The city has seen ambulances break down en route to the hospital with patients inside, EMS Chief Amera Gilchrist said
Divers performed a grid search to locate the man on the floor of the bay
The agency gets paid whether its crews care for patients at home, or transport them to a clinic or an ED