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.
Report and commentary from the North Carolina EMS Expo 2024
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
Officials said the rising cost of EpiPens played a factor in allowing EMTs to draw up the drug with syringes
Because every patient is different, EMS providers must have a range of airway skills and a strong degree of experience
The device allows geriatric patients to notify EMS when an injury occurs and provides responders with additional information
Trendelenburg is taught to all EMS students, but does it still have a place in prehospital care?
Firefighters who have just been cleared to give naloxone report combative patients
A preliminary review showed the company “may have inserted potentially anticompetitive terms” into sales contracts with many school systems
Instead of learning standard CPR, the students learned an innovative method of CPR that relies on teamwork
Authorities said nearly 300 overdoses have been reported in the Cincinnati area beginning Aug. 19
Here are the minimum equipment guidelines for medical personnel providing care at concerts, sporting events and mass gatherings
An official said paramedics respond to between six and eight overdoses a day
Paramedics and EMTs are being trained to recognize sepsis early
By monitoring vitals during drug use, nurses can administer oxygen and IV fluids to keep patients alive
By switching to “Check & Inject” kits, the agency will save around $40,000
Dispatch centers emphasize the slogan: “Call if you can, text if you can’t”
EMTs are asked to be more aggressive in situations like mass shootings and industrial accidents
Cypress Creek medics believe the patient would not have made it to the hospital alive without the transfusion
Following the example of Washington State, a pilot program is testing phasing out EpiPens in EMS
A commuter captured the incident on video during peak rush hour last Thursday
An official said Sunday that the outage was caused by an equipment failure inside the system
Some hospitals are embracing the ridesharing app for patients with limited transport options
Opponents suggest training non-medical personnel to use a vial and syringe to inject epinephrine could be risky
Family members claim “more could have been done” to save the woman
The average price of a two-dose EpiPen package climbed to about $608 earlier this year, up from around $94 nine years ago
Pediatric intraosseous insertion can be stressful, but it’s a critical tool to have if you can’t get IV access
Here is the “never-do” list if you want to have a long and prosperous career in EMS
Every ground ambulance and helicopter crash has different causal factors, but we must look at system design and safety behaviors to prevent further crashes
The woman’s family discovered her at the dialysis clinic after she failed to come home
Firefighters rescued the 86-year-old woman after her family alerted authorities of her absence.
Carfentanil is 100 times more potent than fentanyl, and requires multiple doses of Narcan to counteract
EMS1 columnists react to a Kansas law that prohibits public employers from preventing their employees from carrying a concealed weapon while on duty
