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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…
Ohio fire dept. officials seeking fire levy to maintain joint service
If approved, Issue 39 would generate about $1.93 million annually to help fund the township’s part of the Miami Valley Fire District
Ex-firefighter-EMT who hung doll with noose gets prison
Glenn Halfin was given the maximum punishment based on his guilty plea to the misdemeanor charge of interfering with an African-American family's…
Va. man gets 1 year in jail for stealing, crashing ambulance
Calling his behavior disgusting, a judge sentenced Theodore Gasiorowski to a year in jail and ordered him to pay $150,000