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Patient handling tools and techniques

Despite all of the advances in technology and medical knowledge in EMS, one of our baseline functions is still to move patients around. To that end, it’s surprising how little attention we pay to lifting and moving patients. In this in-depth report, we put patient handling devices under the microscope.

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