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.
The Legal Guardian answers a reader’s question about if legal liability starts at time of dispatch or time of patient contact
Regardless of its cost, helicopter transport is a treatment choice and should not be chosen out of convenience
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) could help assess and control contamination on ambulance surfaces
Also administered epi to a friend while off-duty after stealing it from ambulance
Medics will carefully roll patients onto mat, use air supply to float mattress with patient onto HoverDeck
We need to incorporate cutting-edge engineering, mandatory physical abilities testing, fitness as job requirement
Pilot initiative uses software to triage low-acuity calls to a nurse, who assesses situation and determines best course of action
Heat wave expected to last for another seven to 10 days
We have more choices today than ever before for challenge of keeping our most precious little cargo safe
Basic, rugged EMS products can really help EMS do better job under difficult conditions
When you respond to to the home of a patient with hoarding behavior, these principles should serve you well
‘Scoop and run’ might seem like best tactic to take for cardiac arrest patients, but it actually wastes precious resuscitation time
Check out the runners-up for EMS Week Contest finalists!
Sold in 3-gram bags marked as ‘potpourri'; drug has 4x potency of normal marijuana
Numerous small yet effective steps can be taken to begin truly engaging everyone in culture of fitness, wellness, ergonomic excellence
Georgia Davis, 19, needed hospital treatment after abandoning latest extreme diet doctors put her on in bid to save her life
What’s old is new again; 4 Salt Lake-area hospitals participating in program
Crews initially feared that either phenyl mercaptan or chromium trioxide, both of which are toxic, had leaked
Morphine, Fentanyl, Zofran among drugs on back-order or simply not available
This is the winning story for our EMS Week 2012 contest: “More than a job. A calling”
Five days before wife died an ambulance was called after she experienced ‘severe’ chest pains, but paramedics did not consider it necessary to advise her to go to hospital
Mental health services client called police to report that Columbia Community Mental Health worker had been stabbed
‘Medical Body Area Network’ devices avoid having to disconnect sensors in ambulances, hospitals
Autistic are 7 times as likely as others to come into contact with first responders
Doctors were gravely concerned for patientwhen he was admitted, but he had since made remarkable progress
CEO of ambulance company: ‘why we did not transport would be a question for the hospital’
5 hours elapsed from triage to physician contact; came to ER after clinic diagnosed appendicitis
‘We saw the ambulance shaking,’ says witness; TASER required to subdue attacker
Says some falsely classified as ‘trauma’ and taken to regional trauma center, allege service denied patients choice
Ambulance technicians arrived 15 minutes later, clamped baby’s umbilical cord and allowed dad to cut it
Despite the mistake, family of patient are praising responders
Hypothermic trauma patients are less likely to survive their injuries, when compared to similar patients who are normothermic