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 were asked to assist your trainee in assessing and treating a 56-year-old man with shortness of breath; did you make the right call?
You are dispatched to a bank for a man who is weak and lethargic
Your patient has neurological deficits after a traumatic injury. Should you use a backboard?
Bariatric stretchers, ambulance operations more common
Doctors want ambulances equipped with chilled saline and ice packs
Ambulance company merges with firefighters; paramedics to be held to firefighter standards
Several products offer strategies to combat cold and keep patients warm
26-year-old man erroneously classified as “Priority 4" by responders
Medic: Man unbuckled belts, opened door, and jumped out
EMTs called dispatch at request of restaurant worker
Without antibiotics and operating rooms, amputations common
Here are the top six points to consider when making a stretcher or stair chair purchase
