Hospital del Nino, which serves around 3,000 children, has power again in the wake of Hurricane Maria thanks to a new solar power system
Source: ems1.com
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Off-duty nurse performs tracheotomy on choking man
officials learned that before responders arrived, a licensed nurse had “attempted a crude tracheotomy on the victim”
Source: ems1.com
82-year-old woman invents device to prevent hot car deaths
Carol Staninger’s system alerts drivers and passersby that a small child, a senior citizen, a person with disabilities or a pet is inside an unattended vehicle
Source: ems1.com
Texas paramedic hurt in ambulance hit-and-run crash
Crews were transporting a patient to the hospital when a driver crashed into the ambulance and fled the scene
Source: ems1.com
What would you tell your 21-year-old EMS self?
Despite some respondents telling their younger selves to seek alternate employment, most had unique insight for their rookie selves from years on the job
Source: ems1.com
Time-lapse video map shows 911 calls during Calif. wildfire
Sonoma County residents called 911 in record numbers, reporting blocked roads and then increasingly calling with pleas to be rescued
Source: ems1.com
EMT suffers life-threatening health scare on call
Shawn Betts was helping a woman who had fallen when he went suffered supraventricular tachycardia and was diagnosed with a rare heart defect
Source: ems1.com
The opiate addiction backlash in EMS
From fentanyl, to heroin, to ketamine, to carfentanil: the drug epidemic didn’t start in the back of an ambulance
Source: ems1.com
U.S. vaccine panel to discuss waning effectiveness, new shots
The federal panel of experts recommends what vaccines children and adults should receive and when
Source: ems1.com
Trump readies opioid plan, but some worry it won't be enough
There is concern the White House actions will be empty talk without a long-term commitment to paying for more addiction treatment
Source: ems1.com