When a critically injured patient arrives at a rural hospital, the goal is rarely definitive treatment. It is stabilization.
Pittsburgh is buying new, high-tech mannequins that will be used by EMS personnel for training. James Dlutowski, the training crew chief for the city’s EMS, said the high-fidelity mannequins will ...
On Friday morning, 21 EMS providers from across the Peninsula donned “bunny suits” at Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center. They weren’t getting dressed for trick-or-treating, though — they ...
CAMDEN – Cooper University Health Care has announced a collaboration with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide advanced clinical training to members of its Emergency Medical ...
Patient volume not tenure drives better survival in severely injured trauma patients treated by EMS clinicians, per UPMC and University of ...
ATLANTA - A new program has already helped save more than a dozen lives in its first week of implementation in Atlanta. First responders with Grady EMS can now administer blood transfusions in the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arlington’s EMS can now provide pre-hospital whole blood to patients who have suffered blood loss. Just about 300 of the nation’s ...
Severely injured patients are more likely to survive if they are initially treated by an emergency medical services (EMS) clinician who sees a high number of trauma patients, rather than a clinician ...
SHARON, Pa. - Sharon Regional Health System announced in a Tuesday release that it will be partnering with Penn State Fayette Center for Community and Public Safety's Paramedic Program to expand ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- In recent years, the Louisville Metro Police Department has responded to an alarming number of violent calls, many of them involving serious injuries or death. In an effort ...