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.
Our co-hosts discuss how one program is teaching paramedics how to deal and empathize with dementia patients by using virtual training
A specially trained group of emergency physicians responds with EMS providers to assist with care, build relationships and improve patient outcomes
Ada County Paramedics, a three-time Mission: Lifeline recipient, describes their collaborations with hospitals and doctors to improve STEMI care
Rural Metro Ambulance to give a statement on how he escaped
Clearly patients do surprise us from time to time, even when they are dead
What does vitamin B1 deficiency mean in the prehospital environment?
Marshall County EMS placed into service a John Deere Gator 4X4 XUV outfitted with a MedLite™ EMS insert in the cargo bed
Evelyn Stypula is starting a program to provide emergency transportation for people with disabilities and senior citizens
Paramedics wrongly diagnosed heart condition as asthma
Potentially unstable patients may be seen more quickly
$20K Beavercreek initiative expected to be model for other area emergency agencies
Find out which populations rely most on ambulance transport
On-board oxygen system shut off, killing a woman in April
Could take more than a week to add information back into system
Man being transported for psychological evaluation when he allegedly started fighting with medics in the back of an ambulance
Disaster could overwhelm hospitals, ambulances
There is often a chaotic scene as burn victims are usually pulled out of the fire early, which easily distract responders
Of the complaints, just over a third were about ambulances not arriving quickly enough, while another third were about quality of care
5 of the hospitalized people are in critical condition
Nicholas Blossom is in stable condition after landing headfirst on a spiked fence
Only minor injuries; 58 passengers OK
Sends paramedics to scene before ambulance can respond
Drill brings together local, state and federal agencies
Melissa Massey admitted the attack but successfully appealed her case
How innovations in technology have shaped an essential EMS tool
Firefigher-Paramedic Charles Anthony MacDougall was reportedly stabbed in the back and chest in downtown Los Angeles
Newspaper probe unveils the serious — and sometimes fatal — mistakes made by ambulance crews in the region
Responders spent two hours moving bed-ridden woman from her bed to a stretcher
Non-emergencies will now be taken to a clinic
Officials denied the appeal of 2 paramedics disciplined for the death of a Pittsburgh man who died waiting 30 hours for an ambulance
Family says medics contributed to man’s death
Toxicology tests helped confirm that a poor blood supply caused Curtis Mitchell’s intestines to swell
Vehicle had emergency lights on, going through red light when car crashed into it
