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.
The EMS Leadership Round Table tackles community messaging, public health funding and caring for the caregivers at the Virtual Pinnacle Leadership Summit
Check-in on how you and your partner are functioning during difficult calls, and learn when and how to take a productive break
Six takeaways from the USFA, NHTSA best practices to protect fire and EMS providers responding to incidents of civil unrest
The plane was given permission to land, but never arrived
500 students also had to be evacuated, with firefighters finding high and unsafe levels of CO in the school
The earliest the plan may take effect is next year
The patient was reportedly not affected by the detour
Investigators want to determine if the training environment led to death
Emergency officials order people to stay indoors
Police have released footage showing a drunk man lose control of his vehicle and crash it into a pub
Paramedics have started treating patients on the scene instead on en route
An employee with the ambulance billing firm is suspected to have stolen Social Security numbers and birthdays of patients
The 85-year-old woman was with her husband in an ambulance when it made a sudden stop, causing a fatal injury
Police were alerted of a missing man through the system
The cat is trained to alert people when her owner has a potentially fatal heart seizure
The world-renowned professor attacked his friend and trying to defend himself, the friend put the professor in a headlock
David Kwiatkowski allegedly infected patients with contaminated syringes
Some were concerned that taxpayer money was being used to transport a badger
Dispatchers will be given a list of triage questions and CPR instructions to pass onto callers
The suspect reportedly crashed his car and then stole responding paramedics’ ambulance
Despite suffering internal bleeding and serious head injuries, he made a “remarkable” recovery
The boy’s family was initially told that he was being pulled Medi-Cal
The 19-year-old was stabbed twice and suffered a collapsed lung
The mother had to drive her daughter to the hospital while a paramedic tended to her in the backseat
Brittany Despins was involved in the crashes that killed an EMT last week
Sherri Wilkins has been revealed to also be an addiction counselor
Victims begged 911 operators for help
Union members say Chief Abdo Nahmod mismanaged response to Superstorm Sandy
Vicious attack at game in March 2011 left Bryan Stow severely injured; San Francisco is seeking $1.2 million from team to cover cost of treatment
A teenage boy remains missing and his parents dead after they all tried to save their family dog from high tides
The couple was out on a walk when they came upon the bear and its cubs
Numbers suggest that 30 US kids are treated for bounce house related injuries every day
The 23-year-old man fell from a hotel balcony party, with paramedics unable to save him
