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DENVER, April 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Grammy-award winning pop group, Train, made a special visit to Denver Health Medical Center today. During their visit, they met pediatric pati...
Paramedic Designed Auto Rescue Tool Enables One to Give the Gift of 'Safety' for Father's Day
NEW YORK, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- That welcoming change of weather means Spring is finally here and it's that time of year where you have to scratch your head and start thinking of what gift yo...
21 Year Old Cardiac Arrest Victim, Life Saved in Park
YONKERS, N.Y., April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 31st at 12:47 PM: Empress EMS along with Yonkers Police Department ESU was dispatched to a 911 call at Coyne Park in the City of Yonkers for...
Legion Posts Victory In Battle To License Military Medical Personnel
INDIANAPOLIS, April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Another victory has been registered in The American Legion's ongoing licensing and credentialing campaign. On April 2, Indiana Gov. M...
Code STEMI Web Series Examines London Ambulance Service
London Ambulance Service and Physio-Control, a leading provider of emergency medical response technologies worldwide, today announced the release of the Code STEMI web series docu...
After 68 Minutes with No Pulse, Minnesota Paramedic Is Brought Back To Life
Fifty-six-year-old Hennepin County paramedic Wayne Schneider doesn’t remember much about the events of December 17, 2012. He remembers the respiratory distress call he was respo...
Company Profile for HD Medical, Inc.
HD Medical, Inc. is a new medical device research and development innovator headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. The company offers medical products for use in screening and early de...
Virtua's New Health Information Exchange: Health Care Communication to Benefit Patients
MARLTON, N.J., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --For most people, health care involves a variety of providers—doctors, nurses, hospitals, specialists, laboratories and pharmacies, just to...
Paramedic Designed Auto Rescue Tool is a Top Holiday Gift Pick!
NEW YORK, Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Who doesn't like feeling prepared for the unexpected emergency situations that may arise? The T3 Tactical Auto Rescue Tool by StatGear was developed by a...
National EMS Awards of Excellence Program Recognizes Outstanding Achievement
The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) and EMS World, in conjunction with the National EMS Management Association (NEMSMA) and the National Association...
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For over 20 years Rue Education has been utilizing new technology to bring learning materials to nearly 100,000 healthcare professionals and help them earn credit towards their Nu...
Clinical Trials
Basic Life Support Termination of Resuscitation Implementation Study
In Ontario, most people who experience a cardiac arrest at home (when their heart stops beating) only receive basic life support from Primary Care Paramedics (PCPs) and all are transported...
Myocardial Infarction Triage and Intervention Project (MITI)
To determine the practicality, benefit, and safety of paramedic administration of thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction. The feasibility of paramedics correctly identifying...
Intraosseous Versus Intravenous Vascular Access During Cardiac Arrest
The objective of this study will be to compare humeral and tibial IO needle insertions to peripheral IV access during cardiac arrest. Hypothesis There is a difference in first attempt suc...
Keller Prehospital Ultrasound Study
The study is based on the premise that ultrasound is not commonly used in an ambulance. There are some departments that do deploy it into the field, but of those departments there is almos...
The goal of this non-inferiority trial is to determine which type of routine care is the best for paramedics to stop someone from seizing.
PubMed Articles
Mass casualty incidents : Preparedness of German soccer arenas.
BACKGROUND: Each weekend soccer arenas attract hundreds of thousands of spectators with the German Bundesliga being one of the most attractive sport series worldwide. In 2006 when the FIFA soccer Worl...
Measurement of Empathy Levels in Undergraduate Paramedic Students.
Introduction Paramedics rely on establishing a health provider-patient relationship with patients that promotes two-way communication, patient satisfaction, and facilitates appropriate patient assessm...
A Human Factors Analysis of an EMS Crew's Exposure to Carbon Monoxide.
The safety of personnel and resources is considered to be a cornerstone of prehospital Emergency Medical Services (EMS) operations and practice. However, barriers exist that limit the comprehensive re...
Paramedic Electrocardiogram and Rhythm Identification: A Convenient Training Device.
Introduction: A common reason for utilizing local paramedics and the emergency medical services is for the recognition and immediate treatment of chest pain, a complaint that has multiple possible eti...
Assessing the Impact of Prehospital Intubation on Survival in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.
Abstract There is a developing body of literature documenting adverse survival outcome of out-of-hospital endotracheal intubation for critical multiple trauma and head injury patients. Objective. To c...
The aim of this study was to determine whether GlideScope video laryngoscope (GVL) and intubating laryngeal mask airway (i-LMA) improve the intubation success rate and could be easily learned and perf...
Advanced Rescuer- versus Citizen-Witnessed Cardiac Arrest: Is There a Difference in Outcome?
Abstract Background. Substantial financial and human resources are invested in training and maintaining advanced life support (ALS) skills of paramedics who are deployed to the field in response to ou...
OBJECTIVE: Accurate identification of major trauma patients in the prehospital setting positively affects survival and resource utilization. Triage algorithms using predictive criteria of injury sever...
Exploratory cross-sectional study of factors associated with pre-hospital management of pain.
Abstract Rationale, aims and objectives Improving pain management is important in pre-hospital settings. We aimed to investigate how pain was managed in pre-hospital suspected acute myocardial infarct...
Paramedic decision making: prehospital thrombolysis and beyond.
Background Mortality from acute myocardial infarction is influenced by the speed at which reperfusion therapy is delivered. In the UK, prehospital thrombolysis (PHT), administered by paramedics, has b...
Videos
Recruits: Paramedics Series 1 Episode 1
Graduation day and 50 trainee paramedics celebrate making it through eight tough weeks of theory assessment at College. They've earned the right to hit the r...
