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.
Drs. Dorsett, Jarvis and Escajeda join the Pediatric EMS Podcast crossover episode to discuss pain management
The key is to remember that kids get sick differently than adults and that physical findings may be more subtle
The negative association between number of airway attempts and neuro-intact survival following OHCA
Man allegedly stabbed by Diamond, from ‘Saved by the Bell,’ treated by ambulance crew
He landed on a car and survived; injuries include extensive brain trauma, a shattered pelvis and a broken arm but he already “wants to get up and run”
Lightning struck a car outside stadium, knocking people over; spokesman reports no serious injuries
The teenager, celebrating 18th birthday, struck by train early Sunday morning; his father and other bystanders attacked medics and police coming to his rescue
The 9-year-old driver tried to avoid a police checkpoint; a state trooper followed the car which ran off the road and overturned, ejecting two boys ages 3 and 13 who died
AirLink VitaLink able to administer Tranexamic Acid to trauma patients with severe bleeding while en route to the New Hanover Medical Center
Changes by B.C. Ambulance include an educational campaign and bringing in a clinical psychologist after the service acknowledged it has not done enough to help employees cope with trauma
Public safety culture is changing, with it perhaps the notion that emergency service workers are somehow immune to emotional injury from traumatic events
Experienced providers should re-evaluate priorities before riding a bad idea into the ground
He was transported to trauma center with hip and leg injuries
Intravenous therapy should be performed only when medically necessary, and under stringent guidelines
He died from a rare injury of vertebral artery dissection, which resulted in severe bleeding on his brain; there are only 100 documented cases
Police, ambulance crew assist family in searching for and locating boys trapped for hours in cold and snow
One driver involved in the crash said a woman who got out of her car was hit by another vehicle.
Hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss the need for more resources to help paramedics deal with mental health issues
Training aims to prepare bystanders to for situations when scene-safety prevents EMS access to victims
A flight photographer’s PR assignment quickly changes as he captures the response to a serious medical call
Jessica Galvin made the life-saving call to treat him on the scene; she is the first woman to receive her community’s local EMT of the Year award
The kit aims to ease coordination, treatment, and extraction in hostile situations
The rain was so heavy EMTs had to wade through ankle-deep water to find a man in cardiac arrest; Jessica Galvin sized up the situation and treated him on the scene
We need to modify our thinking to include serial 12-lead ECGs as part of our reassessment, just like we would reassess vital signs or pain scale
Regulations and common sense will make sure your equipment is as ready to go as you are
Delayed-onset PTSD can take years to surface, so having a deadline for filing a claim seems wrong
She became too ill to work after an accident where she was first on the scene after an ambulance plunged over a cliff and sank to the bottom of a lake
The operation took place on the side of a cliff using climbing rope and a harness to keep him steady after his foot became jammed between two rocks
John Morgan’s leg was amputated after the crash; doctors predict nine months before he can walk and two years before he can return to the job
Philadelphia police “scoop and run” policy may get shooting victims to the hospital faster which may explain increased survival rates of seriously injured patients
Research also looks at pain management for patients, and depression among EMTs
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