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.
Tuesday’s theme aims to foster a culture of safety, collaboration and preparedness within the EMS industry and in local communities
Simplifying the patient assessment process for every patient can reduce variability, lower your stress and improve patient care
By working on prescription compliance, smoking cessation and other risk factors, community medics can make a difference in the lives of stroke patients
Crew members updated police with their location and other details as the incident unfolded
This issue explores efforts to improve ambulance safety, shining a light both on technological advances and ways to improve driver behavior
Your patient takes a medication you aren’t familiar with and needs to be treated using a protocol you haven’t reviewed recently; do you have the right apps on your phone to assist?
Understanding the underlying cause of a patient’s behavioral changes is necessary to assure accurate treatment is started
The company will charge $300 for the generic version of its lifesaving injections
The SirenGPS app delivers the caller’s pinpointed location for more than 90 percent of calls, and will work even when cell service isn’t available
Fairbanks Paramedic Academy graduates and students took home first place in every category, crediting their training and education for their wins
Officials said the ambulance veered off the road into a water-filled ditch and struck some trees
The bill allows medical professionals to continue issuing standing orders for lifesaving controlled substances
Officials said it would be a “huge challenge,” especially during a mass evacuation, but winter shelter plans are in place and agencies are ready to respond
In addition to preventing bleeds, the treatment did not trigger problematic responses in the immune system, an issue that had arisen in earlier research
Last month, state officials updated its policies to allow police, fire and other emergency personnel to carry doses of naloxone nasal spray up to 4 milligrams
The air transport company is the subject of as many as six class action lawsuits over allegations of overpricing
The study found that 84 percent of EMS providers in the patient compartments of ambulances that crashed weren’t using their own restraints
Paramedics and doctors brought in fake body parts to show staffers of a school district how to tie tourniquets and pack open wounds with whatever they have
The state currently only allows paramedics and medical professionals — not EMTs, firefighters or police — to carry the drug.
When paramedics are called to care for hospice patients, many times the patients are taken to a hospital, which interrupts the hospice program.
The alerts are meant to protect officers and medical crews on calls to homes previously flagged as posing some type of threat to law enforcement.
Florence Stricker, 87, was being transported by Guardian EMS personnel when the ambulance and another vehicle collided at an intersection March 23, 2015
Health Information Exchange participation and funding for EMS agencies is a pathway to improving patient care and safety
A strong patient safety culture has the greatest impact on reducing adverse incidents and harm to patients
The study compared outcomes for two resuscitation techniques and recommended improving bystander CPR in minority communities
The study examined whether CPR proficiency could be improved with low dose and high frequency simulations in hospitals
Ada County Paramedics pooled funds from their own paychecks to equip three ambulances with the ABC of Safe Infant Sleep messaging
Train EMS personnel to adopt and follow these important cybersecurity best practices to protect patient data, personnel records and agency hardware
Cybersecurity, a real and credible threat to EMS agencies, is an additional risk for EMS leaders to understand and manage
The ambulance was transporting a patient when it was struck by an SUV
