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.
Animal bites and envenomations pose some interesting challenges to EMS providers
Michigan EMS leaders share the challenges in locating, extricating and transporting victims of snowmobile crashes
Our co-hosts discuss the week’s top stories and how providers can positively impact the EMS industry during their career
When asked if he would do it all over again, Daniel Wesley said, “I wish I could have done more”
The study found that 84 percent of EMS providers in the patient compartments of ambulances that crashed weren’t using their own restraints
Paramedics and doctors brought in fake body parts to show staffers of a school district how to tie tourniquets and pack open wounds with whatever they have
Our co-hosts are joined by Art Hsieh to discuss an article on carfentanil exposure
Sean Dornin has been criminally charged with stalking, indecent assault, harassment and disorderly conduct
David Ley died Thanksgiving day after a diving incident off the coast of Florida
Daniel Wesley shattered his arm into 18 pieces after being shot and run over twice
Here’s what we can learn from teenager and EMR Daniel Wesley, who was critically injured coming to the aid of a murder victim
The 911 calls revealed a chaotic scene that evolved into a violent incident on campus
Responders searched the scene and surrounding area when they heard a faint sound more than two dozen feet away
Daniel Wesley, 17, saw a woman lying on the side of the road while driving home from a shopping trip
Most of the victims had been hurt by the car, two had been stabbed and one had a fractured skull
The ambulance sustained minor damage, and the patient was transferred to another ambulance for the remainder of the transport.
Lt. Pamela Graham said the funds will go toward throwing a Christmas party and help the family start over.
At least two people were being treated for stab wounds, four were injured by the car and two others were being treated for cuts.
Paramedics began CPR and took the child to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead
The alerts are meant to protect officers and medical crews on calls to homes previously flagged as posing some type of threat to law enforcement.
Kristopher Paro was in a tree stand in the woods behind his home when he heard what he thought was a deer.
Official: “It’s so potent that if we come in contact with it, we can get overdose symptoms.”
Rescue personnel used ladders to extricate at least three injured people on stretchers and helped others climb out of the bus.
The shootings occurred about 200 yards from the annual Juice Bowl football games.
Jeremiah Brown was responding to a call when the ambulance he was in collided with a pickup truck last year.
Fire chief: “It was something you shouldn’t ever see.”
True concern requires a look beyond singular events and towards methods to eradicate a child’s replica-gun-involved death.
Police said Johnthony Walker was driving well over the posted 30 mph limit when he lost control of the bus carrying 37 children on their way home.
The man was taken by a private ambulance service to a hospital for burns on his leg and hands.
Michael T. Smith made several attempts to strike EMS personnel, hitting one paramedic and causing a minor injury.
The plane crashed in a parking lot near the airport shortly after taking off.
Four people went to the hospital after experiencing dizziness and other symptoms.