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• Warm EMS equipment for a warm patient

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  Excessively cold temperatures add to a patient's physical discomfort. Learn how to keep patients warm during assessment.

• Combative patients: Don't be the 'calm down guy'

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  Regardless of how good your intentions are, yelling "Calm Down!" in someone's ear never, ever helps

• How a safer ambulance saved lives

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  After a high-speed collision, Kootenai County EMS System chief confirms lessons about designing and operating a safer ambulance

• What football can teach us about patient assessment

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  Patient assessment is a often a team effort that requires a plan, roles, and follow through

• Alcohol-related calls: 7 reminders for this weekend

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  Keep the following tips in mind when you encounter a patient who went out of his/her way to overindulge this holiday

• 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

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