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.
High-stress decisions and human limitations demand more than just training
EMS clinicians should rely on their assessment and facts when assessing people with a suspected factitious disorder
Ambulance collisions, which happen with frightening regularity, often result in injury and are occasionally fatal, especially for private vehicle drivers
It took Dayton firefighters approximately 90 minutes to extricate the woman
If children aren’t properly restrained in the back of your ambulance, it puts everyone at risk
Critical insights on the safe administration of ketamine, versed, lorazepam, ativan and haloperidol
Exploring physical, chemical and alternate restraint considerations in agitated patients
Cape Fear Valley MIH collaborates with community organizations to enhance care for mental health and substance use challenges
If you’re embracing power devices to help move patients, don’t skip the first step
An explosion inside a Youngstown building collapsed the first floor into the basement
The patient fell 40 feet at the Great Falls in Salisbury
Grand County EMS personnel had to create a multistage, complex rope system amidst challenging windy, rainy conditions
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Two Catskill EMS employees have resigned after a doorbell video showed their treatment of a patient who had fallen inside an ambulance
Recommendations first made in 1995 explained keeping someone on their chest in prone restraint can dangerously restrict breathing
It’s important to foster effectiveness, professionalism and excellency; as well as core values of human decency, empathy, kindness and respect
Overland Park firefighters faced a worker buried up to his waist 15 feet below the ground
Report and commentary from the North Carolina EMS Expo 2024
EMT Julia Fatum said she’s speaking about her attack to fight for better protections for first responders and call for an increase in penalties for assaults
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
One teen was critically injured after falling 30 feet inside the intercontinental ballistic missile silo in Arapahoe County
Investigators determined officers in the ambulance were observers and medics were in charge
Independent pathologist concluded that the bruises on Jameek Lowery’s face, fractures to his fingers were the result of “blunt force trauma”
DEA proposal would make marijuana a Schedule III drug but not make it legal for recreational use
Regardless of pushback, providers have a responsibility to put the safety of the patient above all else when on scene
At least 94 people died after they were given sedatives and restrained by police from 2012 through 2021, according to the Associated Press
An AP investigation shows how a strategy intended to reduce violence and save lives has resulted in avoidable deaths
Paramedics placed a backboard on the victim and an officer sat on it while they tried to restrain him
Independent autopsy of Jameek Lowery counters the state’s cause of death due to cardiac arrest while under the influence of bath salts
The term has been banned from EMS training with the exception to describe its historical usage
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