News
Safety Concerns About New Minneapolis 9-1-1 Dispatch Software
A caller mentions that a man was maced at the start of the call, but the dispatcher doesn’t ask about an ambulance…
Guns Send over 8,000 U.S. Kids to ED Each Year, Analysis Says
Gun injuries, including many from assaults, sent 75,000 U.S. children and teens to emergency rooms over nine years at a cost of…
Online S.T.A.R.T. Triage Certification Course Offered by Disaster Management Systems, Inc.
Disaster Management Systems, Inc., the nation’s leading supplier of disaster preparedness solutions, today announced the availability of a new e-learning course for…
Paramedic Chief Digital: How to improve patient and provider safety on the road
This issue features articles highlighting the importance of patient and provider safety during ambulance transport and the need for an EMS overhaul
Quiz: Test your cardiac emergency knowledge
More than 90 percent of people who suffer from cardiac arrest outside of a hospital die, so EMS providers have to act…
Rapid Response: Is EMS response different when the active shooter survives?
Despite the shooter’s despicable intent and multiple murders, he becomes another patient to triage, treat and transport
Calif. EMS providers express frustration over ‘frequent fliers’
Alameda County EMT Tonya Powell said she often spends the majority of her shifts transporting people who don’t actually need an ambulance
Ill. officials promise to improve private EMS regulations
Officials said they plan to increase background checks after it was revealed that an EMT involved in a fatal ambulance crash had…
Ohio fire dept. gets rid of paramedic requirement for firefighter applicants
To bring more recruits into Springfield Fire-Rescue, the department is no longer requiring applicants to be at a paramedic status
Ill. fire dept. gets rid of paramedic requirement for firefighter applicants
To bring more recruits into Springfield Fire-Rescue, the department is no longer requiring applicants to be at a paramedic status
LODD: Ohio paramedic dies in ambulance crash
Officials said Portsmouth Ambulance Service paramedic Jennifer Cross was part of a crew responding to a call when their ambulance collided with…
Man assaults paramedic during mountain rescue
Paramedics and firefighters were able to wrestle the man to the ground, and they were forced to administer a sedative to calm…