Witmer Public Safety Group used FDIC in Indianapolis to throw open the doors of its newest entity, the theEMSstore. Sister to TheFireStore, this was launched in answer to frequent ...
By Mara H. Gottfried St. Paul Pioneer Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — A 20-year-old woman fell off a cliff in the darkness in St. Paul and landed on a ledge 30 feet below, leading ...
EMS Today 2012 in Baltimore this weekend was an astounding event. More than two dozen brand new products and companies were exhibiting. This was the 30th year of EMS Today, and ...
Often it is not the complicated and expensive technologies that make a real difference in EMS. It is more often the simple ideas; inexpensive disposable products that make the ...
EMS itself was really born in war, and the very first ambulances were seen on the battlefield ...
Centering the patient that way accomplishes the move by moving the patient along the long axis of the spine, rather than against it, and the end result is less potential ...
There were some really exciting new products to see on the exhibit floor this year ...
With more than 1700 products, 120 employees and a history spanning almost two decades, Spencer, an emergency services manufacturer, is not a small one. ...
When the research team at Emergency Products and Research began looking at a redesign of their traction device, they turned to the military. ...
This is really much more than a traction splint; it can immobilize the knee or any lower long bone fracture, PLUS it is a great traction splint. ...
Being something of an EMS dinosaur myself, I've watched the backboard evolve. For the first two thousand years of human history, backboards evolved very little. Early man used ...
This life saving device is the most efficient means of removing a downed firefighter or victim from the "Hot Zone." The S.O.R.D (Special Operations Recovery Drag) is ...
The exhibit floor at EMS Today this year was filled with excitement. Many exhibits set a whole new standard of professionalism in their standards for booth presentation. There has ...
By Scott M. Bruner EMS1 Product EditorTrauma Technologies, Inc. has introduced the newest addition to their impressive list of spine boards and accessories: the Trauma Board 450. ...
The Daily Camera LONGMONT, Colo. — A "mass casualty incident drill" surprised students training as emergency medical technicians Saturday afternoon, interrupting ...
International Medical Surgical Response Team and a U.S. Disaster Medical Assistance Team offer help ...
On-scene spine immobilization may do more harm than good, according to Johns Hopkins researchers ...
The Cairns PostCAIRNS, Australia — Six quick-thinking mates plucked their 18-year-old friend from the water after they watched him plunge 50m down a waterfall on Hinchinbrook ...
Efforts of responders to deadliest accident in the history of the D.C. Metro train system are captured on film ...
