Safety
The safety topic provides news, information and resources to keep EMS providers informed about key safety issues, developments and technology, including research and initiatives focused on violence against EMS professionals, how to prevent an injury, near-miss reporting and risk mitigation.
How disciplinary action is perceived offers evidence for implementing Just Culture values
A fundamental approach to resolving conflict before discipline is required
By listener request, our hosts discuss the new law restricting ketamine use in Colorado and the Chicago sexual harassment settlement
Approaching every scene with calmness, compassion, command presence and code choreography leads to better patient care
The medic was sent ahead of an ambulance; the attacker was angered by how he parked his first-response car and tried pushing him toward the highway
A fifth worker has been hospitalized after methyl mercaptan, used to create insecticides, began leaking from a valve
He was taken to the Nebraska Medical Center by ambulance and accompanied by a single police cruiser and a fire department vehicle
Officials are urging residents to prepare as they would a major storm — with plenty of food, water and medicine in case they’re unable to leave home for several days
Law enforcement is working to contain the kind of violence seen in the wake of Mike Brown’s shooting
EMS World Keynote speaker Alexander Eastman explains what EMS needs to get to the scene quicker to improve victim survivability
Training aims to prepare bystanders to for situations when scene-safety prevents EMS access to victims
The firefighters have non-life threatening injuries; the ambulance was seriously damaged and caught fire after the crash
The 21-year-old struck a medic in the face and attempted to exit the ambulance while it was moving
The woman was released after treatment for a fractured ankle and hypothermia
Police found the suspect next to the crashed ambulance with a blanket and box of crackers
One nurse suffered a collapsed lung after the patient burst into the nursing station swinging part of a hospital bed
The patient bit a paramedic on the left calf and a firefighter also suffered minor injuries in the struggle
According to the S.C. Department of Transportation, “secondary crashes account for 30 percent of the crashes and 18 percent of those end up being fatal”
Transporting these patients to specialty centers is the best way to safely manage this virus, and companies are already able to do this
He says current PPE is vulnerable to tears because it’s too thin, and one-size-fits-all suits are too small for some providers
The ambulance slowed down at an intersection and was almost through when a truck collided with the emergency vehicle
Another person was also injured when the two-pilot spaceship crashed during a Virgin Galactic test flight
The woman refused and told her husband, who went to the station and the beat the medic to the point of brain damage
Fire Chief Mark Burdick apologized for language used by firefighters who appear in the video
Hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss how easy it is to steal items like uniforms and ID cards, and why EMS has gotten complacent when it comes to keeping equipment safe
There’s hardly a mobile phone out there that can’t capture video, but EMS providers must maintain professionalism regardless of if they’re being filmed
He at first thought it was a prank, but soon put the situation together and sent responders to her home
The footage appears to show them cursing and restraining the man after he hit two firefighters on a medical call
A truck driver who believed he had enough time to clear the tracks pulled into the train’s path
“My personal practice is to err on the side of caution,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said
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