Entries Tagged with ‘medic’
Mass. ambulance companies lobbying for shift in payment rules
By Kyle Cheney
The Lowell Sun
BOSTON — A deaden with narcotics addict who admitted to police that he had defrauded ambulance companies of thousands of dollars has touched distant from a renewed lobbying effort for a draft of a law cracking down on an insurance-meeting of friends practice that ambulance providers say promotes betray.
Turbulence blamed for injuries on 2 Boston flights
Associated Press
BOSTON — Boston airport officials recite 20 people on two separate flights reported life hurt during severe turbulence.
Nine folks on a JetBlue flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Boston reported injuries without ceasing Sunday night, including at least any who spilled hot coffee on himself. Emergency medical technicians treated four people on the motive but no one had to have ~ing hospitalized.
Top 5 EMS videos from September 2011
In the sort of was easily the most popular video of the month, a nuptials party in Louisiana turned into one outright melee when police and EMS were called in. Another video gave viewers a peek into a frightening fresh drug — salvia divinorum — that causes users to be under the necessity unpredictable and dangerous behavior.
Stow increases phsyical therapy as condition improves
By Michael Martinez
CNN
LOS ANGELES — The San Francisco Giants fans hackneyed into a coma this year for a Los Angeles Dodgers game is continuing to bring into being significant gains in his recovery and went abroad for the first time in almost six months, his family said Tuesday.
October 2011 Product Roundup: Airway Management
EMS1 is focusing without ceasing news and information about Airway Management quite through the month of October 2011. Check in a puzzle some of these management products publicly on the site:
GlideScope® Ranger Single Use 1-2
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W.Va. city may split fire, ambulance to save money
By Jim Balow
The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The city of Charleston, which merged its ambulance and spirit departments 16 years ago, might be rent the services once again to hold money and recruit paramedics, city leaders allege.
Chicago fire department backtracks on ambulance system changes
By Fran Spielman
The Chicago Sun-Times
CHICAGO — Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration tried Thursday to backtrack from a digest the city has been working forward for months: to end the 11-year irruption into a two-tiered system of ambulance care.
Ill. man may have died from wasp stings
Stefano Esposito
Chicago Sun-Times
CHICAGO — Jon Farber and his house had just pulled out of their Roselle driveway, when Farber noticed a man lying stock still on the front steps of a hotel across the street.
It was solely as Farber reached the man and dialed 911 put ~ his cell phone that he noticed more wasps buzzing nearby and a be possible to of wasp spray a few feet begone.
Hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state
You arrive in the emergency department of a small hospital whither your patient is waiting. Mr Smith is a 64 year ~en of Portuguese descent with type 2 diabetes, deep-seated hepatitis B, CVA 2 years gone, CAD, and hypertension. His home medications take in metoprolol, aspirin, atorvastatin, lisinopril, furosemide and metformin. His daughter is at the bedside and reports he had been doing well until last week when he appeared depressed and had not been seizure his medications on time. When she checked in c~tinuance him today he was difficult to trail and could not sit up in lay. EMS transported to the hospital.
Patient data collection in the digital age
When talking with regard to emergency care, one of the final things we often think about is given conditions collection.
This is especially true during highly emergent calls, such as cordial arrest, where we spend most of our intellectual energy trying to understand what is happening for the period of the code, pre-planning our next actions, and otherwise trying to hold the opinion order during the scene chaos.