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.
Improve your patient care and decrease your legal liability risk with conscious, deliberate practices
For new EMTs and paramedics there is nothing more important than improving your patient assessment skills; learn and follow these field proven tips
The criminalization of medical errors has added a new layer to reducing harm
The LAFD said one of the crane’s arms broke as workers were removing the billboard
Sweltering weather spreads from the Southwest to California causing heat-related deaths
The Tidewater EMS Council is looking at treating young trauma patients and adding more locations
An EMT and patient are killed after their ambulance collided head-on with a tractor-trailer
Springfield EMT Peggy Finley faces murder charges related to “compressional and positional asphyxia” of a patient
Boulder County rangers say the cows were likely protecting calves in attacks that sent one jogger to the hospital
A Logan County paramedic once worked a 120-hours shift and transports sometimes have a 6-7 hour turnaround time
A freon leak inside the Pittsburg store caused an employee to have trouble breathing
Officials extended “Code Red” air quality alerts for a third straight day
Three workers were pinned when the 6-foot-high, 40-foot-long wall collapsed near a trench where they were working
Knowing how xylazine presents clinically, as well as how it impacts overdose management is important for any provider responding to illicit drug overdoses
Set a positive example by encouraging open communication, constructive feedback and shared responsibility for patient outcomes
We can apply the 5 Es of CRR to distracted driving to better protect our first responders operating on roadways
The law requires EMS and trauma care systems to develop transport protocols by Jan. 1, 2024
“We have a duty to care for those who care for us,” President Joe Biden said
A 74-year-old patient died after head-on collision involving a Regional Paramedical Services ambulance
EMS1 tours Horton ambulances equipped with a new restraint system
LaDamonyon “DeeDee” Hall, 47, died in 2022 after police and EMS providers responding to a reported disturbance handcuffed and transported her
While first responders were helping victims of a crash, another vehicle hit the ambulance with so much force that it knocked it over, MEDIC said
The next time you encounter a patient for which your clinical impression is “excited delirium,” remember that the treatment you render isn’t to treat the delirium
Maia Dorsett and Nikki Little share a journey to improving care through a multi-modal NAEMSP approach
U.S. EMS agencies have been ordering options that make rigs safer and more comfortable for providers and patients
“There is a lot of discussion about overdose prevention centers, but ultimately, we need data to see if they are working or not,” said Dr. Nora Volkow
“Their clinical assessment assumed that the agonal respiration the patient took was the same as being apneic,” said Clearwater Fire & Rescue Chief Scott Ehlers
Karen Owens shares insider tips for training to treat pediatric athletic injuries, some of which may surprise you
Universal Ambulance Services “began an investigation immediately,” said General Manager Duncan Walker
Bullitt County EMS said it has received offers of assistance and an “outpouring of love, concern, and prayers”
Miguel Nieblas Ontiveros faces charges stemming from a 2022 transport of a 76-year-old fall victim
A 2021 disciplinary letter to Capt. Jeffrey Scott Klein states that the patient, who needed a glucose shot, was handcuffed and put in a prone position
“This has nothing to do with the monetary value of the lawsuit, but everything to do with accountability,” Nichols’ mother said
