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.
Running makes it harder to keep your cool and operate at peak effectiveness
Today’s hi-tech stretchers accommodate obstacles, eliminate manual lifting and save unnecessary wear and tear on EMS providers’ knees and backs
EMS1 contributors and editorial advisory board members predict the future technologies that will transform patient assessment, care and transport
Council members raised concerns about the response time in light of a recent 10-day strike notice due contract disputes
Although a nurse told doctors that she was recovering from her overdose, those same doctors pronounced her dead
It will cost about $32,000 to update an existing ambulance to handle heavier patients
Volunteers, not city fire department, responded to anaphylaxis victim
The machinery itself does most of the moving and lifting and that means both patients and paramedics are at less of a risk for being injured
Charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct, the man has been suspended from his agency without pay following his arrest
Eutisha Rennix was six months pregnant when she collapsed from an asthma attack at a Brooklyn coffee shop in 2009
Baseball offers one of the purest comparisons — a heady game of technical precision, where numbers and probabilities reign
The woman had to be transported to the hospital for treatment of her injuries
The cuts are a part of a spending reduction plan put in place after cuts in reimbursement from Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance
The loss of personnel the hospital’s emergency room would have to stop accepting patients by ambulance and would be taking only walk-in patients
He was removed from the ambulance after struggling with officers and EMS personnel
Medics initially took one unconscious man to hospital, returned within hour after other residents, staff complained of illness
The EMT continued speaking to the woman and attempted to keep her conscious
She assessed the child’s condition and began CPR
The complaint filed Tuesday seeks class-action status for as many as 1,500 people who were bused to almost every state in the U.S.
Firefighters provided basic life support and assisted EMS with patient packaging
The EMS industry needs its own Steve Jobs
There’s been many developments over the years and this creates a gaze into a collective crystal ball for what the future might bring
Here’s a look at products that can save EMS providers from aggravation and injury
3 great old-school EMS patient handling devices
She called the medic an obscenity and swung her fist, hitting him in the left side of the face
Rescuers may decide a patient doesn’t need an emergency room at all, maybe an urgent care or a trip to the doctor’s office instead
The law aims to combat overdoses by encouraging witnesses to call for help and expanding access to naloxone, a drug that reverses the effects of an overdose
On average, officials say it would cost taxpayers around $20 a year
Rawson-Neal bused about 150 patients to the Greyhound bus station near Los Angeles’ Skid Row in the past five years, far more than were sent to any other city
Tucker injured his back and neck while trying to lift a patient onto a stretcher
Beginning June 1, it won’t be out of the ordinary for paramedics to check blood pressure or make sure medications are being used properly
Let’s look at a few more ways to keep us from getting hurt
