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.
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Paramedic Shea Lathrum and EMT Brandon Busch were returning from an out-of-county transport when they saw a car leave the roadway and catch fire
Have you recently reviewed lifting techniques, stretcher operations and teamwork to avoid a patient drop?
Asking our patients and their families to provide feedback through a formal assessment of patient satisfaction should be a priority of every EMS agency
How do you assess and treat general weakness in a geriatric patient that faints at church or a public event?
The new dock will give first responders quicker, easier access to patients
Doctors will be able to see a live feed of patients to provide better medical direction
In addition to off-road capabilities, the truck is unmarked, and its lights can be hidden to help avoid detection at night
Waterloo Fire Rescue received 376 stuffed animals purchased for a promotional campaign earlier this year
Planned facilities may hold patients for up to a day before they are transferred or released
The driver died, and seven children were taken to the hospital for their injuries
The patient was taken to the hospital by another ambulance
EMS Authority of Okla. uses “Howler” sirens which drivers can feel up to 200 feet away
Officials said that while the EMT was transporting a possible stroke victim, he cut off and tailgated other vehicles
The ambulance acts as a mobile ICU to buy time for patients until they can be transferred into a hospital
The crew left the patient’s body with a family member after they realized he had died
The 43-year-old said she took the vehicle because she “missed the last bus”
You were asked to assist your trainee in assessing and treating a 56-year-old man with shortness of breath; did you make the right call?
You are dispatched to a bank for a man who is weak and lethargic
Houston’s Life Flight celebrates 40 years of operation
Your patient has neurological deficits after a traumatic injury. Should you use a backboard?
Every ground ambulance and helicopter crash has different causal factors, but we must look at system design and safety behaviors to prevent further crashes
The EMT told the restrained patient to “get a haircut and join the military”
Officials suspected that a stronger cut of heroin was responsible for the spike in calls
The woman’s family discovered her at the dialysis clinic after she failed to come home
The two took numerous photos and recordings of over 20 unconscious or incapacitated patients
Five paramedics and one firefighter pulled the ambulance over to help the woman give birth
The victim was transported by armored vehicle during the second night of the skirmishes.
Firefighters rescued the 86-year-old woman after her family alerted authorities of her absence.
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Authorities said recent flooding had caused the bridge’s support beams to rot
The woman was cooperative with paramedics before unbuckling her seatbelt and leaving the ambulance
Officials said EMS “didn’t know where to go”
