Patient Safety
The patient safety topic contains news, tips and expert-written articles sharing how EMS providers can build safety into every system of care, ensuring that patients receive the safest and most reliable care.
Dr. Alex Isakov offers updates and insights for EMS professionals on navigating the infectious disease landscape
Field supervisors need to ensure EMS personnel follow infection control guidelines and ambulance decontamination processes
A joint NAEMSP, NASEMSO, NEMSMA, NAEMT, APA position statement prioritizes patient and provider safety
A vacuum truck was used to help rescue a man almost completely buried in corn inside the Henryville grain bin
A carnival crisis, cliffhangers, underground escapes and fiery extractions: First responders answered the call in 2023
Colorado Solictor General Shannon Stevenson said the Aurora paramedics administered too much ketamine for McClain’s body weight
Springfield EMT Peggy Finley had a $60K bond refunded due to recent legislation
Parker County Hospital District paramedics faced an amputation and having to perform bilateral finger thoracostomies
Jury selection begins Monday for Aurora Fire Department paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Lt. Peter Cichuniec
Capt. Jeffrey Scott Klein was in charge of a 2020 medical response that led to the death of a patient who was put in a prone position
What patient abandonment isn’t, and why it’s time to confront this EMS boogeyman
Police believe the driver who struck the Sun Prairie ambulance was impaired
Rescuers in Chaffee County were sent to rescue an ill-prepared hiker trapped by a snowstorm
Guilderland Emergency Medical Services will have improved crew, patient safety with a power stretcher, power load system
Exploring the infection control benefits of chlorhexidine, alcohol, betadine and povidone iodine-alcohol
First responders in Swansea had to stabilize the house before removing the car
Vallejo first responders successfully removed the man from the fence spike
Rescuers are in contact with one worker buried in the collapse of a multi-story plant in Martin County
A coordinated effort involving several departments saved a construction worker pinned by a foundation collapse
Firefighters and a patient fell to the ground when the roof of the Burlington structure collapsed
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles found the Cruise service to be “an unreasonable risk to public safety”
An FDNY ambulance was struck by an SUV while en route to a hospital
One patient suffered life-threatening injuries after falling into a mine shaft in Kern County
An FDNY ambulance was struck by an SUV while en route to a hospital
Steve Whitehead is going to tell you about a better way to secure your patient
Legislation requires hospitals to develop ambulance bed delay protocols by Sept. 1, 2024
“There, I said it. I do not like your pretty ambulances and I don’t think they contribute to the safety of our responders.”
The midair collision near Salt Lake County Flight Park left the paraglider passenger in critical condition
First responders in Cincinnati had difficulty reaching the SUV after it had been pushed past the crossing
Authorities said the Alamance-Burlington School System bus went off the road, struck a culvert and hit the building
One patient in the New Bedford pier collapse was transported to St. Luke’s Emergency Department by rescue boat
One of the patients was transported to a hospital in critical condition
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