The “public duty rule” provides responders broad immunity from lawsuits stemming from their on-the-job actions
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Monthly Archives: April 2016
Prince's death puts spotlight on opioid epidemic in Minn.
State records show 336 deaths last year linked to excessive or abusive use of prescription opioids, such as oxycodone, or illicit opioids, such as heroin
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Ohio responders get lesson in American Sign Language
Some of the words included pain, where, doctor, medicine, breathe, stop, yes, no, hospital, emergency, firefighter and ambulance
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Boston EMS budget includes new ambulances, staff
The expansion would reduce sluggish response times, lower expensive overtime costs and refer fewer calls to private ambulance companies
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Inside EMS Podcast: Why EMS needs to get back to helping people
Our co-hosts discuss the hot topics in this week’s news
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What is the appropriate discipline for driving 17 mph above the speed limit?
An ambulance crew is suspended without pay after a news crew plays highway “gotcha”
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Mich. lawmakers urged to make CPR training mandatory for high school students
Thirty-one states have already passed laws requiring students to learn CPR before they graduate
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NJ Supreme Court: Fired dispatcher should get new trial
A new jury will decide if Patricia Del Vecchio was the victim of disability discrimination and retaliation when she was fired in 2009
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FDA reconsiders training requirements for painkillers
Under the current risk programs, drugmakers fund voluntary training for physicians in safely prescribing their medications
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Paramedics, dispatcher reunite with baby after emergency
Sophia Smith made a full recovery and is back home with her family, who thanked the responders for playing an integral part in her survival
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