SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
Insufficient sleep impacts decision-making, wellness and risk-taking, putting providers and patients at risk
PARAMEDIC SAFETY
This issue explores efforts to improve ambulance safety, shining a light both on technological advances and ways to improve driver behavior
Understanding the underlying cause of a patient’s behavioral changes is necessary to assure accurate treatment is started
The top events and trends of 2016 will continue to shape and influence the future of EMS in 2017
Although the Ambulance Driver had a year he wants to forget, there are five noteworthy events in EMS propelling us into 2017
Our co-hosts discuss the top EMS news articles from the week
Peter Amato fought through blankets of snow to transport a woman awaiting a kidney transplant, a gift his brother had received 18 years ago
As the students piled out of their vehicle to help, paramedic and professor David Fifer’s first worry was for their safety
Our co-hosts are joined by Art Hsieh to discuss an article on carfentanil exposure
True concern requires a look beyond singular events and towards methods to eradicate a child’s replica-gun-involved death.
SAFETY AND SURVIVAL RESOURCES
