David Hupp lays out how the OPQRST mnemonic that EMS providers use to assess patient pain can be slightly rescoped to evaluate issues within an EMS agency.
Zero preventive trauma deaths. Is it possible, and do first responders hold the key to this lofty goal? Trauma accounts for at least 200,000 U.S. deaths per year. Recognizing this, in its 2016 report, ...
Conducting a sepsis screening during emergency medical service transport to an emergency department reduces time to treatment. Emergency medical service screening for sepsis speeds administration of ...
PISTANA, 3 Nov: In a dramatic rescue operation, emergency responders saved a man who had been missing for three days after reportedly falling from a high tree down a mountain cliff in the dense ...
Blue Ridge Community College students, who are training to be advanced emergency medical technicians, used their experience ...