Patient Handling
The patient handling topic contains the latest news, information, education and training tips for EMTs and paramedics related to lifting and moving patients. Learn how to communicate with patients to ease assessment and intervention challenges, the latest products designed to assist with patient handling, and how to stay safe and prevent EMS injuries incurred by physically lifting and moving patients.
What if scheduling and finalizing a transport could be done in 60 seconds?
Make your patient feel less like a sack of potatoes with these tips from Steve Whitehead
Steve Whitehead is going to tell you about a better way to secure your patient
A vacuum truck was used to help rescue a man almost completely buried in corn inside the Henryville grain bin
Colorado Solictor General Shannon Stevenson said the Aurora paramedics administered too much ketamine for McClain’s body weight
Springfield EMT Peggy Finley had a $60K bond refunded due to recent legislation
Parker County Hospital District paramedics faced an amputation and having to perform bilateral finger thoracostomies
Jury selection begins Monday for Aurora Fire Department paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Lt. Peter Cichuniec
Rescuers in Chaffee County were sent to rescue an ill-prepared hiker trapped by a snowstorm
Guilderland Emergency Medical Services will have improved crew, patient safety with a power stretcher, power load system
The three patients were flown from the scene in Kissimmee to a hospital in Orlando
First responders in Swansea had to stabilize the house before removing the car
The nurse at the Kaiser Permanente’s Redwood City Medical Center was pinned between a hospital bed and the machine
Croton-on-Hudson first responders were initially unable to reach the injured hiker, who fell 50 feet down an embankment, because the trail was washed out
Vallejo first responders successfully removed the man from the fence spike
