Trauma
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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?
Chris Cebollero and Greg Friese, MS, NRP, discuss EMS MCI response lessons learned from protests turned violent in Ferguson and Dallas
Four shooters “planned to injure and kill as many officers as they could” during a protest and march in downtown Dallas
The Winthrop Ambulance Service and surrounding fire departments are equipping personnel with EMS body armor for everyday use
3 children are among the 64 people shot in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend
Police suspect illegal fireworks explosion responsible for girl’s hand amputation and blast injuries to her face
Medics treated the man’s significant left leg injury and bleeding from a homemade firework with a tourniquet
The boy, walking alongside a trailer, slipped or fell before being run over by a trailer wheel
Once the shooter is dead or apprehended, the top mission for police and EMS is to stop the dying from bleeding and airway compromise
Brad Treat, 38, a law-enforcement officer with the U.S. Forest Service, was attacked by a grizzly bear while mountain biking near Glacier National Park
The death of a 26-year-old farm equipment operator has been ruled an accident
The two Kentucky EMS providers were loading a motor vehicle collision patient into the ambulance when the rig was struck by lightning
Two Acadian Ambulance EMTs and two bystanders were struck while tending to an accident victim
Members of the Traditionalist Worker Party and counter protesters were treated for stab wounds, cuts, scrapes and bruises
There is a significant correlation between operational stress, organizational stress, critical incident stress, alcohol use and post-traumatic stress
Mostly farmers, homeless people and those outdoors, were killed after being struck by lightning since Tuesday
400 instructors, volunteers and patient actors, along with with 26 ambulances and two helicopters, helped paramedic students complete 70 different scenarios
STARS in Manitoba helicopters will fly with two units of O-negative blood for patient use on scene or during transport to a trauma center
FDNY EMS Lt. JoAnn Restko fell from a ledge near Roaring Brook Falls while taking a picture
You were asked to assess and treat a 22-year-old woman with an obvious leg fracture and there was a disagreement about how to proceed; did you make the right call?
About half of deaths occur at the scene of the injury or enroute to the hospital; bystanders and well-trained emergency medical services can make a big difference.
The shooter falsely told negotiators that he strapped explosive onto four hostages
EMS leaders and providers need to study successes and failures as an opportunity to reduce death and disability from the next mass shooting
A 2-year-old boy was dragged into the water by an alligator near a Walt Disney World hotel Tuesday night
Aeromed can not continue without a commitment from the Puerto Rico government to pay the existing debt and offer fees to guarantee long-term service
EMS leaders, field personnel should review and reconsider their preparedness to respond to active shooters
Drug overdoses, accidental poisonings are up 78 percent over a decade and now exceed vehicle crashes as the top accidental killer in the U.S.
The soldier was transported eight hours by ground ambulance before surgery in a hospital parking lot
