If you are an EMT of any rank or variety, I’d like to introduce you to a friend that you may not know about. For your entire career in EMS, you’ve had a friend who has tirelessly advocated for your well being, silently worked behind the scenes to increase…
Thanks to Dey Pharma I received the new EpiPen training materials. You can visit their website to view a training video on using the new and improved EpiPen . Training Materials for the new EpiPen I also received this splendid hoodie and matching set of wine glasses from my…
– The NIH (National Institutes of Health) announced two new resuscitation studies. This is not the kind of research to find any private sponsorship, but it is important – well, one study is. The CCC trial will compare survival-to-hospital-discharge rates for two CPR approaches delivered by paramedics and fire…
EEAS will soon have more qualified ambulance paramedics to respond to emergency 999 calls. This summer, 56 ambulance paramedics (SAPs) currently going through their training with the East of England Ambulance Service will become fully qualified and most – 17 – are based in Suffolk, compared with 12 in…
A young woman who assaulted a paramedic at a hospital claims she was too drunk to remember what happened. Jemma Wrighton, 21 of Ashburnham Road, Bedford kicked the paramedic technician repeatedly when she was taken to hospital after police found her intoxicated and lying in the street on Shakespeare…
The co-ordinator of Colchester’s SOS Bus was shocked at the way the town was portrayed in the Channel 4 documentary, Party Paramedics. The 60-minute programme, broadcast on Monday, described Colchester as one of Britain’s hardest-drinking towns and contained scenes of fighting and vomiting. Wayne Powell said: “Channel 4 approached…
Every incident paramedics attend in a day will be ‘live-tweeted’ during a massive Twitter experiment. Crews from the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) will take part in the ‘tweetathon’ to give people a rare insight into what they do. A member of the trust’s communications team will accompany the…
– There have been some interesting comments on What About Nebulized Naloxone (Narcan) – Part I . Let me start with the sarcastic comment that suggest that everyone is opposed to treating patients with heroin ODs (OverDoses). – Image credit. – Mike writes – Why do we even touch…
Medical equipment used to revive heart attack patients was so poorly maintained that machines were on the brink of running out of battery power, it emerged today. Some defibrillators were flashing warning lights alerting paramedics they were about to go dead, a report to councillors in Staffordshire has revealed….
An ambulance overturned and crashed into a ditch while carrying a patient on an emergency “blue lights” call in Essex. The East of England Ambulance Service said a collision involving a van happened at about 10:25 GMT in Main Road, Danbury. The patient, aged in his 70s, was cut…