Five staff members in an operating room started feeling ill; several other patients in the ER began to feel ill a short time later
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Monthly Archives: August 2017
Paramedics deliver baby in ambulance outside woman's home
A paramedic crew helped deliver baby Brooklyn just a few yards from her front door
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Student saves choking man's life before interview for paramedic internship
Will Stewart, a Sacramento State student, was hanging out with some other internship candidate when he noticed a nearby man in sudden distress
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NAEMSP votes in favor of ACMT and AACT's opioid safety guidelines
Over the last year, ACMT and AACT developed the document to satisfy responder requests for fact-based opioid response safety guidance
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Israeli volunteer EMT saves life mid-haircut
When Shiran Finder was alerted that someone collapsed nearby, she left the salon to help with tin foil and dye packets still in her hair
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Inside EMS Podcast: EMS Scope of Practice revisions that will move EMS forward
Our co-hosts talk about the skills that may be added and those considered for removal
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Driver indicted for assaulting EMTs after car crash
Police said Matthew Mullen Jr. punched, kicked and spit at EMTs after blowing through a stop sign and colliding with an SUV
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Dispatcher: Helping with baby delivery 'the coolest thing'
Erin Metzger dispatched a deputy and walked him through the entire delivery process
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High school football team rescues elderly couple from river
The team was finishing a 10-mile canoe trip when they came across the elderly couple in distress
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Drunk woman knocks out EMT with kick to the face
Police said Gloria Gordon kicked the EMT in the face after they responded to a domestic disturbance call
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