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.
As you ready yourself and your community for a heat wave, keep these tips in mind
Steve Whitehead gives you permission to break things in this episode of One for the Road
A growing patient population that poses unique challenges and risks to all health care providers
A study found the fungus on surfaces in hospital rooms and on the skin of nurses and patients
MedStar Mobile Health Care shares their experiences to improve driving safety and reduce repair costs through training, technology and culture change
Procedures/devices that ensure an open pathway for gas exchange between a patient’s lungs and the atmosphere
You are dispatched to a factory for a report of a man with his arm caught in a hydraulic press
The purpose of the guidance is to reduce the gap as much and as soon as possible, until evidence can be collected, analyzed and used to develop standards specifically for children
An organization’s culture reflects their perception of patient safety and influences the decisions and choices that are made
The selected topics came from the analysis which showed culture to be either a direct casual factor or contributory factor that led to safety events
Improving driving and passenger safety behavior is an immediate action for EMS leaders as safety innovations diffuse through new ambulance purchases
Weigh the expected costs in time and money against a product’s effectiveness in eliminating pathogens
Move beyond a hospital towel and spray bottle of disinfectant with specialized tools to fully eliminate dangerous pathogens from ambulances
Operations policies, driver and occupant training and behavior change come before and during the implementation of new ambulance safety innovations
Imagine how ambulance design and safety can improve when motivation and the desire to do the right thing come together to drive change
Presentations from experts will be given in Ted Talk style, work-out discussion sessions after each topic
The ambulance had its lights and sirens activated when a FedEx truck failed to yield to the rig
Responders were transporting a patient to a nursing home when the crash occurred
Due to an increased volume of patients, the hospital worked with EMS providers to decide whether a patient could be taken elsewhere
AMR will position state licensed doctors and paramedics in a chase vehicle to respond to on-track incidents
Due to the protest, EMS providers were required to perform an emergency medical procedure in the ambulance instead of at the hospital
The infant was strapped in a protective device weighing about 400 pounds when the crash occurred
Three paramedics and a patient were on board the ambulance when the crash occurred
Applying the lessons learned from research about uniform colors in other industries to EMS
AMR worked with D.C. Fire and EMS and the National Park Service to provide medical care to those attending inauguration festivities last week
The ambulance was transporting a dialysis patient when the rig left the road and struck a telephone pole before crashing into the creek
Alternative pain management therapies are included that clinicians can utilize in place of opioids
The program offers an epinephrine kit free of cost to those with insurance or families who make less than $100,000
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) could help assess and control contamination on ambulance surfaces
Co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss the week’s top news stories
The hospital is encouraging anyone who is pregnant and children under the age of six to get tested
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