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.
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Shot man’s survival due to combined effort of dispatchers, helicopter pilots, ambulance drivers, police, EMTs and doctors
Officials are praising the first and second graders aboard for their discipline in the face of trauma
Responders used everything from backhoes to their bare hands to sift through the wreckage of the two-story brick building
Each kit contains $99 worth of gear adapted from an Infantry First Aid Kid
Police said the man’s car went off the roadway after he suffered some kind of medical incident
More of those shot, stabbed or beaten survive because of advances in medical technology and trauma care
Many have testified against the bill, saying many in their field have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and other serious emotional disabilities for just doing their jobs
The CDC’s Guideline for Field Triage of Injured Patients can ensure patients receive the optimal level of care for injures
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The Central Ohio Trauma System said it wants the Ohio EMS board to adjust its rules to allow paramedics to veer from protocols if they think a patient needs trauma care
Baptist-DeSoto is now one of two Level 3 trauma centers in the North Mississippi Delta hospital region
Trauma is the leading cause of death among people 1 to 44 years old, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Vast stretches are 50 miles or more from the nearest trauma center, making it unlikely that injured people could reach one within an hour and survive
Two of the students suffered serious injuries including skull fractures
The states’s trauma death rate is 20 percent higher than the national average because it is short of 25-30 trauma centers it needs
Responders began using markers to identify which of the wounded were not going to make it
Nearly 500,000 people use the EMS system in the United States for penetrating gunshot wounds, with nearly 10 percent of those resulting in a fatality
According to the study, ‘Exposure to traumatic stressors is potentially an integral part of the job for EMS personnel’
The 70-year-old driver of a 1998 Honda Accord apparently lost control of his vehicle, crashing into the rear of the CHP car and killing the passenger on impact
Unfortunately, the skills we need to deal with difficult situations are not typically taught in our training
The proposed rule is where there is both intoxication and possible head injury, the paramedic must default to head injury
Knowing where to focus your attention can be the difference between life and death for a trauma patient
Canines were on the scene after 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina and the shootings at Virginia Tech
Nicholas Blossom is in stable condition after landing headfirst on a spiked fence
Airlifted to trauma center with serious injuries
Bill would provide workers compensation coverage for post-traumatic stress disorder
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