Kevin Bronson allegedly made the comments in a meeting with about 100 EMS providers after he received a list of complaints from an employee
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Monthly Archives: August 2017
Near-miss reporting prevents future medication mistakes
Medication mistakes are usually due to multiple causal factors but are considered preventable incidents
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Ketamine: A two-pronged approach to sepsis management
EMS providers who can look beyond ketamine’s perception as a street or veterinary drug will find it is uniquely positioned to treat sepsis
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Official: More than 200 dead in Sierra Leone mudslides
A coroner urged the health department to deploy more ambulances, saying his mortuary only has four
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43 dead, 22 injured in train collision in northern Egypt
The Egyptian Railways Authority said earlier that a train coming from Cairo, Egypt’s capital, crashed into the back of a train that was waiting at a small station in the district
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Va. protest rally linked to 3 deaths, at least 26 injuries
A car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally; police linked a fatal helicopter crash killing 2 troopers to the rally as well
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Woman attacked by unleashed dog while hiking with grandchildren
Anna Cote received 12 stitches after a dog she thought to be a pit bull lunged at her on the hiking trail
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Opioid crisis leaves Ky. cities scrambling for naloxone funding
The Fayette County Health Department distributed 925 doses from September to April, when the money ran out from a grant they had received to purchase the drug
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Man dead, two injured after Conn. plane crashes
One of the crash victims walked to a nearby home to contact police, who said that the flight appeared to be a training flight; o
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Heart attack survivor thanks first responders for saving his life
Aaron Britt was working late one night when he suffered a heart attack; firefighters and paramedics performed chest compressions to save him
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