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• 3 Questions to ask when buying ambulance equipment mounts

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  Wall, surface and stretcher mounts help secure equipment within the ambulance, reducing the potential for injury to patients and providers

• Why reducing patient anxiety makes the provider’s job easier

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  Prepare for awkward lifts with smart strategies and tools to boost patient confidence and avoid on-the-job injuries

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  7 keys to proper care and cleaning of your ballistic vest

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  Propper International

  Follow these do’s and don’ts to prolong the life of this lifesaving investment

• Paramedic Chief Digital: How to improve patient and provider safety on the road

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  This issue features articles highlighting the importance of patient and provider safety during ambulance transport and the need for an EMS overhaul

• What if EMS won a $1 billion lottery jackpot?

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  Big dreams to improve EMS with a windfall of funding for safety, health and wellness, research and leadership development

• How to manage ambulance safety on the microscopic level

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  It’s important to clean and decontaminate the ambulance interior regularly to prevent the spread of germs

• Why all EMS providers should be pre-planning hospital evacuations

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  Pre-plan, build, and stock equipment that can serve as a future ambulance and specialty vehicle in the event of emergency evacuation

• Practicing on the deceased: ‘I get it’

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  The human body is an ideal training tool, but fire/EMS training protocols and the law must be followed

• PCR documentation for non-transporting first responders

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  Including clear, complete documentation in your patient care report is a critical component of patient care

• Use checklists to counter the effects of fatigue, improve patient care

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  Avoid missteps, reduce errors and give hospital staff an in-depth preview of a patient’s condition

• Webinar: How can prehospital providers quickly identify and treat sepsis?

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  Learn how you can quickly assess and treat patients with sepsis as an EMS provider

• Pinnacle EMS Quick Take: Why transitions of care are an important patient safety opportunity

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  Transitions of care are critical opportunities to communicate patient assessment and treatment information to other healthcare providers

• Training day: Disaster response, transporting patients from the scene

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  From full-scale to tabletop exercises, preparing for a mass casualty incident should be part of disaster management training

• AMR promises more staff, coverage after EMT assault on patient

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  American Medical Response said they will increase staffing and add ambulances after an EMT was caught assaulting a restrained teen patient

• Ga. town wants to end AMR contract after EMT assaults patient

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  After an EMT was shown punching a teen patient in an ambulance, city council officials want the state to give Dunwoody its own EMS certificate

• Body cam video shows EMT punching restrained teen patient

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  EMT Deannah Williams can be seen screaming expletives and repeatedly punching the 17-year-old patient in the face

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