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.
You can’t help anyone if you don’t get there safely; always practice defensive driving, especially when you’re responding to an emergency call
Ambulance collisions, which happen with frightening regularity, often result in injury and are occasionally fatal, especially for private vehicle drivers
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Shane Clifford “has been an incredible asset to our community,” the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office said
The measure moves to the Senate; if it is signed into law, exposures that cause injuries could lead to felony charges
Authorities say that Gina Darlene McGehee was resisting arrest and took a deputy’s taser before she started holding her breath
“This guy was 1,000% about to shoot us. I’m still shocked that he didn’t,” one of the EMS providers said
Through nearly two years of pandemic, the HEMS industry has been hit hard but proven resilient
“He told me that you guys are going to kill me,” the patient said before her boyfriend attacked, according to police
Jeramy Goodnight is accused of grabbing the handcuffed patient’s head and pushing his thumbs down on the man’s eyelids
The respirators will be available for pickup at pharmacies and community health centers throughout the country
Lexipol’s Greg Friese, MS, NRP, joins Cebollero and Grayson to discuss the hot topics in 2022, from ambulance safety to provider burnout, and how to steer the EMS ship
The seven masks tested by researchers maintained their function and effectiveness after repeated decontamination with vaporized hydrogen peroxide
Just like cancer and back injuries, mental health and suicide are real occupational risks for first responders
Calling the blood shortage the worst in over a decade, organization officials said donations are down 10% since the start of the pandemic
The new law allows first responders in Texas to carry firearms on duty, regulates training, liability
The infant and crew members were all transported to local hospitals
Elizabethtown police said the man was intoxicated and started spitting at the EMS providers before they put him in a spit hood
The time has come for EMS leaders and clinicians to take a data-informed look at how we operate apparatus and the risks involved
The rig hit the underside of a train bridge it was too short to fit under, and the box of the ambulance was partially detached from the front
Bo Brabo joins The Ultimate Leadership Podcast to discuss after-action reviews and lessons from Washington
As the numbers of pediatric patients with diagnosed mental health conditions climb, EMS providers will be increasingly asked to treat these kids
Changing just one of many variables that impact EMS response to 911 calls points to the complexity of changing average response times
Drs. Antevy, Piehl, Spiro, Scheppke, Bernstein and Kupas discuss ketamine and other sedatives, and how to minimize risk when administering
“This could easily have led to a fatality as well as a major fire in the house,” said East Haven Fire Chief Matt Marcarelli
Four people were on board the plane that went down, knocking out power to hundreds of homes
Lane Ambulance EMS providers were reportedly attempting to administer Narcan when the patient forced a paramedic to the rig floor
A patient in need of an ambulance in Echols County, Ga. must wait up to 20 minutes for rig from a nearby city, be driven there, or wait for an air ambulance
EMS providers were responding to call about a man who was slumped over in a vehicle
Allegiance Mobile Health EMT Joshua Zaborowski, 30, was killed when the ambulance he was driving overturned
Thousands of miles apart, two public safety professionals point to detailed plans as the reason for their organizations’ disaster response success
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