The 5-year-old boy is recovering from deep but not life-threatening wounds to his head, face and neck
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Monthly Archives: June 2016
Baby dies after being left in hot car, father puts her in fridge
A Texas man admitted to going inside to sleep and forgetting the infant in the van Tuesday (Collins County Sheriff’s Office)
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Rescue flight leaves South Pole with 2 sick US workers
The plane was making the 1,500-mile flight back to a British research station on the Antarctic peninsula, where the patients will be flown off the continent. (AP Image)
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Volunteer at Red Cross goes into cardiac arrest, CPR teachers revive him
Two CPR instructors left their classroom to perform CPR until paramedics arrived
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Sober legal advice for LAFD's new EMS program
The LAFD SOBER unit for Skid Row’s frequent users is a good idea, but potential dangers to paramedics cannot be ignored
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75 paramedic students complete all-day field ops training
400 instructors, volunteers and patient actors, along with 26 ambulances and two helicopters, helped paramedic students complete 70 different scenarios
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EMS helicopters to carry blood for emergency transfusions
STARS in Manitoba helicopters will fly with two units of O-negative blood for patient use on scene or during transport to a trauma center
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911 outages a danger to all
Modern and legacy 911 telecommunication systems have weaknesses and potential failure points, which puts civilians and responders at risk
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Are you smarter than an EMT student? Test your knowledge!
Share your results and challenge your EMS colleagues to prove they learned and retained the preparatory information from EMT school
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Dad uses helicopter to extract son's loose tooth
The professional pilot and “helicopter parent” wants other parents to make fun, creative memories with their kids
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