SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
Insufficient sleep impacts decision-making, wellness and risk-taking, putting providers and patients at risk
PARAMEDIC SAFETY
Consider the choices we as leaders and providers make that create the very crisis we are trying to resolve
Current AHA guidelines recommend medication doses based on weight, but the tape seemed to accurately guess weight of the sample size just nearly half the time
I can feel the heartburn of the jurisdiction’s risk managers as they try to figure out how to shield the city or town from the liability of a personal vehicle crash.
Domestic violence can be hard to recognize unless you’re looking for it
Our focus on addressing scene safety first can sometimes lead us to let our guard down once we’ve entered the scene
There are going to be some exciting new products introduced this year at EMS World Expo in New Orleans next week
All it takes is 1 EMT to show up, feel threatened and show his weapon for our neutrality to disappear for good
With all of the controversy surrounding rapid response, it seems less of a benefit to drive recklessly in the name of patient care
SAFETY AND SURVIVAL RESOURCES
