EMS News
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BREAKING NEWS
Monongalia EMS will begin administering whole blood in the field starting May 1, becoming just the third agency in West Virginia to offer the lifesaving service
Weiser Ambulance District’s new community paramedic initiative is helping divert crisis calls from EDs and 911
Four children were among nine injured when a drunk driving suspect drove into an outdoor seating area at a busy Fort Myers taco stand
A 21-year-old former student opened fire at a Graz secondary school with two firearms before dying by suicide, police said
Twenty EMS professionals have received Fitch EMS Foundation scholarships, selected from a record 313 applications
With earnings nearly triple initial projections, Flint plans to reinvest ambulance revenue into a new public safety training facility and expand its EMS fleet
The Illinois State Police said the patient became combative during transport, leading to the Carle Ambulance rig stopping on the interstate shoulder
With EMS now city-run, Kingston officials approved funding for a new ambulance to reduce the risk of all units being tied up, pending reimbursement through a state grant
The bipartisan EMS Counts Act aims to fix outdated federal job classifications that undercount cross-trained EMTs and paramedics, making it harder to identify service gaps
TRENDING NEWS
COLUMNISTS & EXPERTS
EMS leaders and providers need to study successes and failures as an opportunity to reduce death and disability from the next mass shooting
Dallas’ program came under fire for not making money, and that’s OK; here are 5 steps to a successful community paramedicine program
A growing population with more chronically ill patients and budget pressures demands all EMS agencies work diligently to provide appropriate services to their community
Being overweight is a threat to our patients, to our health and to our livelihood
Call on your elected officials to support legislation pending in the U.S. Congress to set aside federal land for a National EMS Memorial
EMS providers need to admit that prehospital patient care errors can and do happen to begin addressing this serious cause of patient injury and death
PRODUCT NEWS
The city failed an audit and was left with about 800 claims on hold dating back up to five months, according to an internal investigation
Pa. police stopped the stolen rig more than 20 miles away
Naperville’s International MedTec series 4300 rig had been a reserve vehicle, was destined for Mexico, then went to a Ukrainian hospital before its current location
Social security numbers and other information belonging to at least 100,000 people was taken, according to court documents
The rig flipped onto its side, and one passenger in the Jeep had to be extricated
Area Ambulance Service is the latest U.S. agency to donate a used rig instead of selling it
After an ambulance with its lights and siren on was forced to drive onto a median to avoid a collision, Harmony EMS issued a reminder to pull over
Crews rushed to move the injured recruits off a live electrical wire downed in the crash and stabilize as many patients as possible
Central EMS EMT Gina Ayres, 57, was driving the ambulance in a turn lane with its lights and siren activated
‘We need a tourniquet': LASD recruits render aid to wounded after driver plowed into them during run
“We need an airway for him,” one recruit shouted, while another was heard repeatedly saying, “We need help, here. Help, here.”