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• 4 questions to answer before purchasing a specialty EMS vehicle

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  Agencies should take into consideration local terrain, potential hazards and future needs before purchasing a specialty EMS vehicle

• How one agency cut injuries and boosted morale with a powered patient transport system

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  MedStar Mobile Healthcare in Texas reduced lost-time hours by 86 percent in the first year after adopting Stryker’s powered patient transport system

• Why reducing patient anxiety makes the provider’s job easier

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  Prepare for awkward lifts with smart strategies and tools to boost patient confidence and avoid on-the-job injuries

• Paramedic accused of choking woman threatening to die by suicide

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  Body camera footage allegedly shows paramedic Raymond Lee choking an agitated patient while transporting her to a mental health facility

• How to manage ambulance safety on the microscopic level

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  It’s important to clean and decontaminate the ambulance interior regularly to prevent the spread of germs

• Paramedics hike 6 flights of stairs, carry patient after elevator breaks

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  The paramedics carried a special patient transfer chair up six flights of stairs to get to a man after arriving at his apartment to find the elevator was broken

• EMS From a Distance: Responding to Emergency

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  Emphasizing the old-world values of Squad 51 in today’s EMS

• 3 benefits of a community paramedicine program

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  A treatment-based approach can help your agency provide more appropriate care, reduce costly transports and benefit your staff as well as the patients you serve

• Fla. county settles lawsuit from woman dropped by paramedics

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  Palm Beach County settled with Jean Reed-Garry for $100,000 after she was dropped while being loaded into an ambulance in 2012

• Powerful moments: The rollercoaster of life in EMS

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  Making connections with the patients you treat and transport can allow you to feel the magic

• Patient care: First and last impressions make the difference

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  Positive beginning and ending patient interactions fall into the “serial positioning effect” and can boost patient care reviews

• Patient-centered EMS leadership

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  Patient-centered care partnerships with patients and family need to start at the top

• Pinnacle EMS Quick Take: Why transitions of care are an important patient safety opportunity

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  Transitions of care are critical opportunities to communicate patient assessment and treatment information to other healthcare providers

• 3 ways to finance a power stretcher purchase

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  How can you afford the cost of such an upgrade? Check out these three ways to make your purchase happen

• EMTs help disabled pilot visit former airport

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  Two EMTs volunteered to help a former patient visit the airport where he was a pilot before suffering an aneurysm

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