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EMS doesn’t choose people — it prioritizes patients based on risk, access and the realities of an unstable scene
Delayed treatment, disjointed command and outdated protocols are costing lives. Here’s how to streamline care from the crisis point to the trauma center.
TEMS medics need to be in top physical condition to respond with and care for SWAT officers
Medics transported a man beaten unconscious to an area hospital, where security later broke up a fight between him and a man with a gunshot wound to his shoulder
Since the 2013 accident, Sean Hickman has gone through 14 surgeries; his 15th is coming up, and there will likely be more
The suspected drunk driver fleeing from police crashed through festival barricades and slammed into people outside a nightclub
The veteran officer was killed and his rookie partner was critically injured when their patrol car collided with a big rig; the truck driver was also injured
The boy was in a car with a hose attached to the exhaust pipe; the deputy broke through the window and got him out during a 4 a.m. neighborhood patrol
He was arrested during Operation Broken Heart, which resulted in charges against 14 men from across north Georgia who intended to meet a child for sex
The part-time medic was the target of a weeklong narcotics investigation, and was arrested on a drug felony charge
2 EMS partners were arrested after a home raid by police; one admitted to smoking up on the job
The 29-year-old says he’ll continue to shoot videos of public safety workers and save them in “the cloud” so they can’t be erased
He’s being charged with interfering with emergency medical care, but says he has the First Amendment right to record law enforcement personnel
EMS veterans Khadija Hall and Shaun Alexander were off-duty when they heard shots and saw the officer down; they began treating him with their tech bag
She was arrested for misuse of 911 after repeatedly asking dispatchers to send an officer to her home for sex
He was also ticketed for running a red light while transporting a patient with no lights or sirens
Buffalo officers will be the first department in their area able to administer the heroin antidote through a nasal spray
The ambulance crashed into a deputy’s vehicle that stopped to block traffic at an intersection; the cardiac arrest patient died
While tactical medical teams are helpful, the medics on the scene are often the ones who happened to be on duty
Regardless of the sentence, pressing charges raises awareness in the eyes of the media, police officers and the judicial system, and justice on some level is usually served
He allegedly exposed himself to the woman, placed her hand on his genitals inside an ambulance, and pushed the woman onto a gurney and fondled her, police say
A mother said she and her boyfried tired to keep their cell phones away from her 2-year-old daughter; after call 15 they were charged with obstructing governmental administration
The Mich. dispatcher urged the woman to lock herself in a gas station bathroom, and relayed critical information to responders
Police lost the vehicle when it sped off; ambulance crews pulled them from the water after a 911 call reporting an overturned car in the river
A mother told EMTs not to restrain her son because he gets violent during seizures, but they held him down anyway and police took him to a holding cell, the suit alleges
The woman kicked a medic as she was being transported by ambulance, and is undergoing a mental evaluation at a hospital
He said officers began administering medical care within minutes of the shooting, an on-duty First Aid Squad volunteer drove to the scene in her own vehicle within 10 minutes and the ambulance arrived within 15
The bullet came from an incident at least a block away and she died at a hospital; there’s a $5K reward for information leading to an arrest
A retired police officer shot and killed a Fla. man who was texting his daughter’s daycare during a movie
What can you do if you don’t expect sufficient law enforcement escort into the ‘warm zone’ to arrive in time?
A long-standing practice of police transport for gunshot victims points to deeper issues in EMS care