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.
The need for data-driven decisions in managing aggressive patients while ensuring safety and compliance
From the 1500s until today, techniques for placing a tube into the trachea have continuously evolved and will continue to improve in the future
Equipping citizens to put down the cell phone and save lives in an emergency
Officials said the two deputies were critically injured by fire inside the trailer
DUI charge and other charges against Kevin Tirrel McCorvey were dropped in a deal for a reduced prison sentence
Video shows firefighters fighting a fire involving a parked semi trailer at a detention center
Passengers were thrown forward when the operator hit the emergency brake to avoid hitting a vehicle
Authorities in Lexington said three people were injured in a 5-vehicle crash
The man was transported to Bellevue Hospital with a leg injury after dropping 30 feet into the World Trade Center memorial pool
First responders in Northwest Missouri often have to decide that it is quicker to transport by ground than wait for a helicopter
Marlene Jordan suffered a fractured femur when a Sacramento paramedic dropped her while moving her to a cot
Aurora paramedics Cooper and Cichuniec are scheduled to be tried in November
Prince George’s County first responders faced a total of 56 passengers at the crash scene
San Diego and Chula Vista FFs worked to extricate the driver after his truck went off a freeway ramp and overturned
Officials say the woman was struck by a vehicle and thrown into the path of the Cruise vehicle that ran over her
An employee leaving the Flint Processing Center in Swartz Creek hit workers blocking a driveway
Travis Muller was cleaning out the bin when he became caught in the power sweep auger
One patient in the Spafford explosion was trapped inside by the debris of the explosion
Portland firefighters faced a car pinned partially underneath a semi in a jack-knife collision
The Franklinville man lost his balance and fell onto a London-style gate, with decorative spikes, being used to section off a room
The Ogdensburg International Airport was the location for training a simulated plane crash and fire
An attorney for one of the Aurora officers said, “Mr. McClain died because Paramedic Cooper injected him with 1.7, 1.8 times the ketamine for someone his weight and size.”
Patients from the Bedford Park event were transported to several area hospitals
Prevent and survive an attack by pre-planning your fight or flight response
Family members say the Medway EMT forced the patient in respiratory distress to walk an “unreasonable distance” to the ambulance before the fall
The Department of Health Services said falls are 18% of ambulance runs in 2022
When New Ellenton firefighters found Maria Duthie, she had a faint pulse, was barely breathing and was blue
A construction worker was trapped in his excavator and suffered trauma to his head, chest and arms
Fresno authorities say patients were transported to three different hospitals
11 patients were transported to a hospital after a Delta flight hit severe turbulance
A future EMT’s submission to the NPR student podcast challenge seeks to educate the public about lights and siren use
Orange Beach Fire Rescue Chief Jeff Smith said the umbrella went completely through the leg and needed to be cut for stabilization
BWC footage captures medic telling officers not to lay the suspect facedown in a fatal in-custody investigation
