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.
Resilience expert Mike Taigman provides strategies first responders can use to manage stress during the long haul of this pandemic
How to recognize signs of stress in personnel and offer support during the COVID-19 crisis
The Ontario Prehospital Advanced Life Support (OPALS) Study – a must read for EMS, investigates cardiac arrest, major trauma and respiratory distress
Paramedics transported woman to to hospital by ambulance for treatment of leg injury, checked out 2 children at scene
Gravel truck rear-ended family’s car, then plunged into creek, killing trucker; mom, 2 daughters hospitalized
Man became combative with paramedics about 5 minutes into flight, had jumped from SUV on highway hours earlier
13-year-old victim had been climbing on rocks near beach when large boulder came loose, trapping, pinning him
The private ambulance and cement-mixing truck collided Friday afternoon
Crew used brute strength to lift up 3,200-pound car; man on bicycle performed illegal lane change, was hit by car
Witnesses told rescuers that some children attending birthday party were driving 2 all-terrain vehicles in woods behind house when one rolled over
There was no immediate word from the California Highway Patrol on the cause of the crash
Chief Larry Freeman of South Mountain Fire Company confirmed that an unconscious man had to be cut out of the white Chevrolet Colorado pickup
Family and community members had raised concerns that the closure of two Niagara-area emergency rooms played a role in death
Shootings occurred nine hours apart and left the boy dead and the girl in critical condition
Chief said that the inside of the shop “looked like a bomb went off”
Kevin Peck held the hand of a woman whose legs were severly crushed by a bus until medics and firefighters arrived
The victim was conscious but unable to speak
Two other people suffered minor injuries, according to the fire department
Authorities said the shooter also died, but they were at a loss to explain the reason for the onslaught
Girl was one of four victims in a Nov. 4 drive-by gang shooting
One of the wounded boys was in critical condition Monday night with a bullet embedded in an organ
Officials say hospital staff abandoned their patients
FHP troopers say the 25-year-old driver Johnson Atilard and 17-year-old passenger Daniel Huerta died late Thursday
Deputy Caleb Sickinger and Benjamin Charles Poston, 61, of Roberts, were both responding to a report of a down power line
Model and fashion blogger Lauren Scruggs walked directly into a plane’s propeller, which sliced the left side of her face and shoulder and severed her left hand
A female EMT riding in the ambulance and a man driving the smaller car were medflighted
One of the paramedics suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital for treatment
Some fans were trampled and one person fell at least 15 feet onto concrete during a wild celebration by Oklahoma State fans
