We lacked appropriate situational awareness, and narrowly avoided the consequences. Situational awareness, of which ...

Janine E. Curcio and Dr. Robert Lowe provide a seven-point scale based on speech and responsiveness to decide whether or not to use sedation for an agitated patient. Managing an agitated or aggressive ...

I love to make things easy to remember and repeat, because our job requires us to remember more than we have the ability to. We all learned that the ABC acronym (airway, breathing, circulation) is the ...

Importance/background The 12-lead ECG is recommended in clinical guidelines for prehospital assessment of patients with ...

On Thursday, UT Health EMS provided training at its headquarters for their employees and Hopkins County EMS crews, both of whom are part of the state’s Rapid Assessment Quick Response Force. Texas is ...

Yolo County is currently preparing for a competitive bidding process for ambulance services that is anticipated to begin in 2022. In 2013, the county separated from the Sierra-Sacramento EMS Agency to ...

The Blount County EMS Board on Thursday voted unanimously to hire a third party to review local ambulance services, specifically its contract with American Medical Response (AMR). Following a year of ...

Onslow County community paramedics will now respond to all low-level calls that may not require an EMS unit with an ambulance ...

MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. — In both Washington County and Multnomah County, contracted EMS crews are falling short of county standards for quick response times to emergency calls, often forcing fire ...

The independent consultant hired to assess Fort Worth’s EMS system is set to give its final report to the Ad Hoc Council Committee on Emergency Medical Response on Tuesday. Over the next few weeks the ...

On September 10, 2025, the St. Mary’s County Department of Emergency Services marked a milestone with the graduation of EMS Training Academy Class 25-02 at Chopticon High School. The ceremony honored ...