How a Community Paramedics Program Can Help Keep Emergencies at Bay
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The Milwaukee fire department is getting involved before an emergency happens.
You might usually think of your city’s fire department as being first on the scene during an intense situation, with flashing lights and sirens. But what about a fire department that gets involved before an emergency happens? That’s exactly what’s happening in Milwaukee.
Take Mary*, for example. She called 911 several times a week, due to issues related to her diabetes. In order to find a new solution, the Milwaukee Fire Department (MFD) enrolled her in the Community Paramedics Program, in which a...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - August 12, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Ambulances & Vehicle Ops Patient Care Press Releases Source Type: news
Children Dead in Erie, Pennsylvania House Fire
ERIE. Pennsylvania (Erie News Now) - Five children have died, and a mother was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital after an early morning fire in West Erie.
Its after Erie firefighters responded to a house fire at 1248 West 11th Street, with reports of multiple people trapped inside around 1:15 a.m. According to Erie Fire Chief Guy Santone, seven people had to be rescued from the home, including five young children.
Neighbors a block away heard the screams of teens who had escaped as far as a second floor porch roof. They indicated that there were babies still trapped inside. MORE
Erie News Now | WICU & WSEE in Erie, ...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - August 11, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Videos Patient Care Source Type: news
Dealing with Psychotic Patients
 
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This very well-crafted segment by renowned journalist John Stossel gives an extremely good background on where we are today in this country in dealing with patients who suffer from psychosis.
It shows how we previously dealt with individuals with this affliction (placing them in "insane asylums") and how we are currently doing it – inadequately.
No matter what side of the issue you are on, if you are involved in the delivery of emergency medical services, you will be confronted with these patients on the streets; encounter recently discharged patients from hospital...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - August 7, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: A.J. Heightman, MPA, EMT P Tags: Columns Patient Care Source Type: news
One Step Closer to Drones in EMS
As with many other products and devices, the military is often the leader in adopting innovations that can bring care and medical supplies to troops as soon as possible to save lives.
Such is the case with MASH units, splinting/functional tourniquets, wound clot, and packing dressings.
Now the United States military is working with a reputable start-up company in California to have medical supplies dropped from the air by a specialized drone that is much different than quadcopters we have been seeing in development.
The military concept will use a free-flying small aircraft drone that will drop a parachuted package at a sp...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - August 6, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: A.J. Heightman, MPA, EMT P Tags: Trauma Exclusive Articles Mobile Integrated Healthcare Source Type: news
Pre-Hospital Newborn Resuscitation: The Ten Minute Dilemma
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A baby is treated in the back of an ambulance in his undated photo.
An ambulance is dispatched to a full-term imminent birth. As they arrive, the newborn is delivered and, after a minute shows no signs of cardiorespiratory effort. Newborn resuscitation is delivered and despite best efforts the situation is becoming increasingly futile. Five minutes have passed with no detectable cardiac activity; the midwife and additional paramedics are five minutes away, the nearest hospital fifteen.
Should the paramedic crew decide to stay or leave?
In 2012, the World H...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - August 5, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Simon Robinson, MSC Tags: Airway & Respiratory Exclusive Articles Source Type: news
Man Charged After Attacking Lollapalooza Paramedic
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Eric Shorb, 25, is accused of attacking a paramedic at the Lollapaloazza music festival in Chicago on Thursday.
CHICAGO – A 25-year-old West Virginia man is due back in court this week after allegedly attacking a paramedic at the Lollapalooza music festival.
Benjamin Shorb is facing charges of one felony count of aggravated battery on a government employee, and one felony count of criminal damaging of government property between $500 and $10,000.
Shorb was leaving the festival Thursday night when he told officers “he was having a bad trip,” NBC Chicago reported.
Shorb then is reported...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - August 5, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: News Patient Care Source Type: news
Six-Year-Old Pushed from 10th-Floor of London ’s Tate Modern Gallery
LONDON (AP) — A 6-year-old boy who was thrown from a 10th-floor viewing gallery at London's Tate Modern gallery is no longer in a life-threatening condition, police said Monday.
A 17-year-old boy is being held on suspicion of attempted murder over the incident, which happened Sunday afternoon while the gallery was packed with visitors.
The Metropolitan Police force said the younger boy is in a critical but stable condition in a London hospital. He fell from the open-air viewing platform to a fifth-floor roof.
Nancy Barnfield was at the gallery with her family when she heard a "loud bang," and then saw a woman s...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - August 5, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: International News Patient Care AP News Tag Source Type: news
Cities Now See More Overdose Deaths than Rural Areas
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. drug overdose deaths, which have been concentrated in Appalachia and other rural areas for more than a dozen years, are back to being most common in big cities again, according to a government report issued Friday.
The report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the urban overdose death rate surpassed the rural rate in 2016 and 2017. Rates for last year and this year are not yet available. But experts, citing available data, say the urban rate is likely to stay higher in the near future.
The difference between the urban and rural counties was not large. In 2017, there were 22 overdo...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - August 2, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care AP News Tag Source Type: news
ZOLL Announces Recipients of the 2019 ZOLL EMT Scholarship
ZOLL® Medical Corporation, an Asahi Kasei Group Company that manufactures medical devices and related software solutions, today announced announced 14 recipients of the 2019 ZOLL EMT Scholarship Program.
The intent of the ZOLL EMT Scholarship Program is to award medical education grants annually to qualifying caregivers who demonstrate a career commitment to the profession. The goal of the program is to support the education of EMTs (EMT-Basic, EMT-Advanced) who are working toward their paramedic certification (EMT-P).
All scholarships are reviewed and award decisions are made by an independent committee comp...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - August 1, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Patient Care Press Releases Source Type: news
The Art and Science of Improving Resuscitation
For over 40 years as a physician, researcher, author and EMS medical director, Mickey Eisenberg has led the charge for increasing sudden cardiac arrest survival rates and is one reason for the success that Seattle and King County, Washington, have demonstrated in saving people’s lives.
Eisenberg first came to Seattle and the King County EMS system, known as Medic One, in the 1970s. Under the guidance of Drs. Leonard Cobb and Michael Copass, Eisenberg helped take the Medic One system that had started in Seattle and implement it throughout the entire county. At the same time, he combined his public health education and his...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 30, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Exclusive Articles Cardiac & Resuscitation Administration and Leadership Source Type: news
North Carolina Bomb Squad Agents Injured in Explosion
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two North Carolina bomb squad agents were injured Friday, one of them critically, when bomb-making materials blew up while they were searching the home of a man stopped with homemade explosives in his car, authorities said.
Two State Bureau of Investigation agents were assisting the Sampson County Sheriff's Office in a rural area southeast of Raleigh when the materials exploded early Friday, according to an SBI news release. Both were taken to a burn center in Chapel Hill, including one airlifted in critical condition. The other was in stable condition Friday.
"There was a heck of an explosion, ...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 26, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Trauma News Patient Care AP News Tag Source Type: news
ECG Consult: 55yo Firefighter with Acute Chest Pain
In this month's ECG consult video, we encounter a 55-year-old firefighter complaining of acute chest pain after unloading a fire hose.
View details in the player below.
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Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 23, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: John Hayden, MD, EdD, FACEP Tags: Cardiac & Resuscitation Columns Exclusive Articles Patient Care Videos Source Type: news
Number of U.S. Overdose Deaths Appear to be Falling
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. overdose deaths last year likely fell for the first time in nearly three decades, preliminary statistics suggest.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday posted the provisional numbers showing nearly 68,000 drug overdose deaths were reported last year. The number may go up as more investigations are completed, but the agency expects the tally will end up below 69,000.
Overdose deaths had been climbing each year since 1990, topping 70,000 in 2017.
The numbers were celebrated by the U.S. secretary of health and human services. "Lives are being saved, and we're beginning to win ...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 17, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care AP News Tag Source Type: news
Kentucky Deputy Shot During Wellness Check
WHITLEY CITY, Ky. (AP) — A sheriff's deputy who was shot in southeastern Kentucky while conducting a wellness check is reported in stable condition after surgery.
In a news release, Kentucky State Police say McCreary County sheriff's deputy Dustin Watkins went to visit a home Tuesday around 8 p.m. when a man sitting in a vehicle fired several shots from a handgun.
The 28-year-old Watkins was struck at least once. State police say 48-year-old Mark L. Dungan fired several rounds and then fled in the vehicle, striking the patrol car of a county constable as he sped away.
Police later found Dungan at a nearby cemetery and ar...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 17, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care AP News Tag Source Type: news
Utah Girl Dies After Being Accidentally Struck by Golf Ball
OREM, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a 6-year-old Utah girl has died after her father accidentally hit her with a golf ball.
Police say the ball struck the girl in the back of the head on Monday morning, while the father and daughter were golfing at Sleepy Ridge Golf Course in Orem.
The ball collided with the base of her neck. Lt. Trent Colledge with the Orem Police Department says she was flown to a hospital in Salt Lake City in critical condition. She died from her injuries later that evening.
Colledge said police are investigating but are not planning to pursue charges because it appears to have been a tragic accident.
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Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 17, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care AP News Tag Source Type: news
