By Mary Ann Thomas Pittsburgh Tribune Review PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Emergency workers had to cut a hole in the side of house on Manchester Hill Road to free a 600-pound man who ...
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 ...
Targeted News Service HOUGHTON, Mich. — Michigan Technological University's Emergency Medical Services (EMS) team is excited about a new snowmobile-pulled sled, with good ...
Americans have been putting on weight in the past 30 years. So too have many EMS providers. This has created a near perfect storm. The patients are getting heavier while in ...
By Jordan Grummer Southwest Times Record RUSSELLVILLE, While transporting a patient on a rainy night in October about 10 miles west of Russellville, a Fort Smith Emergency Medical ...
Spokesman Review HOQUIAM, Wash. — A 21-year-old Hoquiam, Wash., man who decided to go sledding in the city cemetery learned two lessons: An 8-foot plastic boat is not a good ...
These are the products that succeeded in bringing large scale change to EMS practice. ...
Vacuum mattresses can have a major drawback: their cost. At around $500 apiece, they can be too expensive for some agencies to afford. Hartwell Medical's new FASPLINT Full Body was ...
By Gary Stern Investor's Business Daily DES PERES, Mo. — Imagine if a company created a product that saved lives and filled a product niche. Helping society is fine, but can ...
By StrykerIn 2002, 36 percent of all injuries suffered by Charleston County employees were strain-related injuries. The county’s Emergency Medical Service Department (EMS) ...
By Stryker As director of the Fairfield County, South Carolina EMS Department, Mike Tanner routinely balances the need to save lives with the demand to conserve expenses and meet ...
By Stryker The Ambulance Transfer and Emergency Care Company, or A-TEC, has a winning philosophy: Give the customer the excellent service they deserve through honest estimated time ...
By Stryker Based on the performance of the Stryker Stair-PRO, Charleston County EMS replaced 25 existing manual ambulance cots with the Stryker Power-PRO XT powered ambulance cots ...
By Stryker Herb Sellers, owner of 26-year old Century Ambulance, has seen a lot of action in his time. Before starting Century, he was a firefighter in Jacksonville, Florida. ...
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 ...
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. ...
By Dan White and EMS1 StaffI sometimes have fond remembrances of the 56-pound ambulance stretcher. But 30 years ago, our patients were on average of much lighter weight. Between ...
By Matthew Bowers The Virginian-PilotPORTSMOUTH, Va. — The woman weighed as much as 1,000 pounds, and that required a special blend of creativity and muscle from the city ...
Move to modify ambulances is just the latest effort to accommodate plus-sized patients ...
