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.
You are dispatched to a factory for a report of a man with his arm caught in a hydraulic press
A mobile stroke unit offers specially trained personnel and equipment which can provide remote diagnosis and evidence-based management to patients for definitive treatment
Improving driving and passenger safety behavior is an immediate action for EMS leaders as safety innovations diffuse through new ambulance purchases
Some hospitals now serve certain ethnic foods and perform particular tests and procedures to accommodate patients of different backgrounds
The father says he begged for help more than five times as his 23-month-old daughter worsened
An additional 60 people were injured, many too frail or weak to escape the blaze
Montreal paramedics say their new ambulances have stiff suspensions that can cause patients to be tossed around in the rear cabin
There are going to be some exciting new products introduced this year at EMS World Expo in New Orleans next week
The family says doctors kept the 8-year-old boy off the ventilator even though family members said he was moving
Jakub Halik lived for six months with a mechanical heart, dying from liver failure
The University of Md. Shock Trauma Center hopes to have ‘community consent’ allowing any patient who enters the hospital to become a subject in a blood transfusion study
Surgeons worked for 36 hours to repair a man’s face that had been mostly lost due to a gun accident
The 21-year-old mother apparently gave birth while en route, emerging from the subway with her baby
Tasleem Rafiq suffered an apparent heart attack and miraculously came back to life
Health officials say people are not calling ambulances when they truly need to
Tony Lindeman had an unexpected heart failure but miraculously survived after medics running the race helped him
You should be training ergonomics just like you train for patient care procedures, fitness or even tactical situations
Paramedics and police report a rise in overdose calls and drug arrests
Jeff Burke was helping a stroke patient when a fire truck popped out of gear and pinned him to an ambulance
Community Paramedicine will send paramedics to visit frequent 911 callers to assess why they call so often
Kelly Grayson recounts a huge call in this exclusive book excerpt from ‘En Route: A Paramedic’s Stories of Life, Death, and Everything in Between,’
The man suffered a serious head injury and lay waiting at the bottom of a flight of stairs for an ambulance
Despite having a bariatric ambulance, firefighters still must use rescue and lifting equipment to move patients
Data shows 65 percent of ambulance transports wait more than half an hour for a bed
The 66-year-old woman was allegedly not secured to her seat in the ambulance and was injured while riding in the vehicle
The family believes that if proper care was given to Joanne Rodriguez, she’d still be alive
A paramedic only gave the girl’s parents Tamiflu
Brad Tate responded to calls and told patients they did not need to be taken to the hospital, but they were rushed in later
What will EMS look like in 2030? What resources will be required to move an increasingly obese population?
The army veteran said a nurse repeatedly put ice packs on his penis after surgery, causing gangrene and leading to a partial amputation of the organ
He believes the hospital wrongly allowed her highly intoxicated daughter to leave alone and was later hit by a car
They claim medics forcibly injected their son with a sedative and kicked him as he lay “completely unresponsive”
