Trauma
Prepare for patients who experience blunt-force or penetrating trauma with news, research, expert-written columns, podcasts and original videos in the EMS1 Trauma topic.
Takeaways from Dr. Tan and Chief Wylie on training and communicating to deploy rescue task forces, unified command and casualty collection points
Why EMS should use preparatory commands
What does the latest study mean for prehospital use of TXA?
Your patient has an apparent hip fracture after a fall and needs to be packaged for transport; did you make the right call?
Decisions made in the prehospital setting can significantly improve outcomes for patients with orthopedic trauma
Law enforcement and SAR K-9s are public safety personnel who may require the emergency care of EMS providers
The 55-year-old man used his cellphone to report the attack and was taken to a hospital for treatment
A specially trained group of emergency physicians responds with EMS providers to assist with care, build relationships and improve patient outcomes
Here’s an example from the annals of “you can’t make this stuff up”
Watch for these signs in yourself, your co-workers and try some of these tips to manage the traumatic stress of EMS work
Joseph Tanner, a trauma nurse, instructed bystanders to use the leash of his surfboard as a tourniquet until EMS arrived
Prehospital ultrasound, the latest patient assessment technology to transition from the hospital to EMS, discussed at EMS World Expo
Types and frequency of traumatic injury secondary to marijuana intoxication described at EMS World Expo World Trauma Symposium
Crush injury from structure collapse and EMS treatment priorities described at EMS World Expo World Trauma Symposium
The agency is one of two in the nation to administer blood transfusions
Our co-hosts discuss a scenario about a mall stabbing and how to stop bleeding without getting grossly contaminated
You responded as the first-in ambulance on a suspected active shooting scene; did you make the right call?
You are dispatched to a law office for multiple shooting victims
Trauma care experts are increasingly focusing on ways to help civilian victims of violence avoid bleeding to death at the scene
The weapon “narrowly missed” his carotid artery, but the medic finished his shift after receiving treatment
The rapper was 25 when he was shot Sept. 7, 1996.
A woman suffered a gruesome in-home accident and couldn’t stop the bleeding on her own
Cypress Creek medics believe the patient would not have made it to the hospital alive without the transfusion
NAEMT is accepting nominations until Sept. 5 for EMTs who are in financial need due to a severe injury
The 31-year-old says “It’s been a rough four years”
The metal rail exited through the woman’s back near her rib cage and extended through the rear of the car
An honest reflection on the worst suffering I have seen as a paramedic is as I roll up to a bad motor vehicle collision
The officer fixed tourniquets on both of the victim’s legs to stop arterial bleeding before EMTs arrived
Trampoline parks are hotspots for injury because multiple people will bounce at the same time
The first responders applied tourniquets to the man’s leg and arm, preventing him from bleeding to death
