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.
Deprioritizing epinephrine in the order of interventions
Using the stretcher as a tool in heads-up CPR
Learn how to put structure to your patient safety program while changing the culture and measuring progress
How would you treat a baseball umpire’s significant head laceration as players, fans and television viewers watch your every move?
The network is adding 17 ambulances and 2 MICUS for interfacility transports
The association president stated the pursuit of high patient-satisfaction can lead to unnecessary and even harmful treatments
The service claims the officer pulled them over for no apparent reason, other than to intimidate and threaten
The woman became ‘extremely combative’ during a medical transport Thursday
The plane was making the 1,500-mile flight back to a British research station on the Antarctic peninsula, where the patients will be flown off the continent
The 68-year-old singer collapsed while singing his classic “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)”
Police are investigating the driver’s interference of the ambulance which was transporting a patient
The soldier was transported eight hours by ground ambulance before surgery in a hospital parking lot
A program requiring prior authorization for repetitive nonemergency transports is intended to alleviate reimbursement issues and fraud
The customized ambulance is built to transport the four-person team and equipment to care for a patient receiving ECMO
A full life weighs more than an empty one, but who I have become because of my EMS experience has made me a better friend and caregiver
EMS providers and civilians escaped serious injuries in three different ambulance collisions
The Pine Grove Area Community Ambulance crew and patient escaped the fire unharmed
Being overweight is a threat to our patients, to our health and to our livelihood
By triaging patients with mental illness, especially repeat users, the Grady EMS Upstream Crisis Intervention Group provider has improved care, saved significant money and boosted morale
Patients treated with ketamine were sedated 12 minutes faster than with average sedative
The Nash County EMS providers did not sustain life-threatening injuries and cared for the injured vehicle occupants
The transports are conducted by off-duty personnel; the ambulances used are also pulled out of reserve
You were asked to assess and treat a potential stroke in a 39-year-old man found unresponsive while working out; did you make the right call?
You are asked to respond to the fitness room at a local hotel
Standardizing the transition of care helps improve patient safety and ensure the patient’s care is smooth and no information is lost
Organize your trauma kit so regular intravenous catheters are not mixed with catheters with backflow preventing or blood control valves
EMS providers need to admit that prehospital patient care errors can and do happen to begin addressing this serious cause of patient injury and death
During April, there were a combined 714 incidents of delays in handing over patients to staff
Learn the signs and symptoms for this significant pediatric airway and ventilation emergency
Health care accreditation and safety organizations have cited alarm fatigue as a top patient safety risk
The Excellance, Inc. ambulance allows medics to perform CT scans of suspected stroke patients and transmit images to neurologists
A scene two EMS providers thought was “safe” turned out to be much worse than the terrible weather outside
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