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January 30, 2019 • EMS1 Daily News

Video: Semi-truck runs ambulance off highway

Dash cam footage shows semi-truck driver Michael Mack ramming an ambulance that had its lights and sirens on off the highway

January 30, 2019 • EMS1 Daily News

Study: Talking to patients may reduce readmission rates

The study showed readmission to the hospital was reduced when nurses surveyed patients before release

January 30, 2019 • EMS1 Daily News

Tenn. first responders arrested amid fraud investigation

Robert Reasonover and Tyler Rathert allegedly logged into AMR’s accounting system and claimed hours they never worked

January 30, 2019 • EMS1 Daily News

Plane debris found in search for missing air ambulance, crew members ID’d

Officials found what appeared “to be part of an airplane’s wing” near the last known location of a Guardian Flight air ambulance

January 30, 2019 • EMS1 Daily News

Research Analysis: Using continuous feedback to drive cardiac arrest care improvements

There is no silver bullet for cardiac arrest care, just silver buckshot

January 30, 2019 • JEMS News

Midwest Cities Scramble to Keep Homeless from Dangerous Cold

The bitter cold is the result of a split in the polar vortex.

January 30, 2019 • JEMS News

Official Urge Vaccinations amid Northwest Measles Outbreak

Health officials say the outbreak is a textbook example of why it's critical to vaccinate against measles.

January 30, 2019 • EMS1 Daily News

Do lights and sirens make an already distracted driver more dangerous?

An ambulance and vehicle collision immediately transforms an incident from the patient’s emergency to an emergency shared with the EMS crew

January 30, 2019 • EMS1 Daily News

How to avoid, survive an ambulance collision

Ambulance collisions, which happen with frightening regularity, often result in injury and are occasionally fatal, especially for private vehicle drivers

January 29, 2019 • EMS1 Daily News

Man uses CPR he learned from ‘The Office’ to help save woman

Cross Scott remembered an episode of “The Office” where Michael Scott sings “Staying Alive” while doing chest compressions on a dummy

January 29, 2019 • EMS1 Daily News

First responders help deliver baby, shovel snow for new parents

Two Cedar Rapids Fire Department first responders shoveled snow outside a house as the rest of the crew helped deliver a baby…

January 29, 2019 • EMS1 Daily News

Ill. hospitals report cold-weather injuries days before arctic blast

Several patients had broken bones after falling on ice, some were frostbitten, and several were poisoned with carbon monoxide after vents became…

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