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  Why all EMS providers should be pre-planning hospital evacuations

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  Pre-plan, build an equipment stock and consider future ambulance and specialty vehicle design to serve as an evacuation function in your community

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  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

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  How NEMSIS and ePCR are transforming EMS records (white paper)

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  iPCR

  This free white paper describes how ePCR software with NEMSIS compliance can lead to error-free transfers of patient information

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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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  Man who posed as EMS provider, treated patients, sentenced to jail

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  Anthony Mario Fortuna was sentenced for impersonating an EMS provider after receiving permission to be on a "ride along" in an AMR ambulance

• 2 Houston EMTs, 2 patients hurt in ambulance hit-and-run

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  The crash occurred when a driver failed to yield, and then jumped out of the car and fled from the scene

• Vandalized ambulance taken out of service after ‘terrifying’ attack

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  West Midlands Ambulance Service EMS provider Edd Davis said a mirror was broken off the ambulance and mud was thrown while a patient was being treated

• EMS providers: Potholes are putting patients at risk

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  EMS providers with TLC Ambulance said the potholes around Syracuse are causing bumpy rides, which can sometimes make symptoms worse for patients

• Patient critically hurt after fleeing from ambulance

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  The woman was hit by a car while running from an EMS crew that was trying to convince her to return to the hospital

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