SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
Insufficient sleep impacts decision-making, wellness and risk-taking, putting providers and patients at risk
PARAMEDIC SAFETY
EMS Trend Report 2017 findings highlight the importance of fatigue management as a safety issue for both caregivers and patients
Great strides have been made in ambulance safety, design and operation, but significant risk still exists
NIOSH and NHTSA collaborated to use emergency department visit data to identify the five primary types of injury events experienced by EMS providers
Fire and EMS agencies owe their crews, and the citizens they serve and protect, competent fire apparatus and ambulance driver/operators
Our co-hosts talk about an opioid panel discussion, sponsored by EMS1 and BoundTree, at EMS World Expo 2017
Running makes it harder to keep your cool and operate at peak effectiveness
A study that finds trauma patients fare better when they don’t wait for EMS to arrive sparks uproar, questions
If the EMS profession truly wants to prioritize safety, we must address distracted driving and all the ways we currently make it worse
A few simple screening tools and stretches can strengthen muscles and prevent knee pain and more serious injury in at-risk EMS providers
SAFETY AND SURVIVAL RESOURCES
