His name was Frankie Maryland, and he was 25 years old when we first met. He still comes around to visit me occasionally, usually when I'm feeling pretty cocky. He reminds me ...
In the spring of 2011, Shelia Vitalis was preparing to deploy for the second time to Iraq as an Army reservist. She will be stationed there for a year as a military police officer. ...
By Justin A. Zivin MD PhD and John Galbraith Simmons tPA for Stroke: The Story of a Controversial DrugtPA has been one of the most controversial drugs ever. Originally used and ...
By Jan Jarvis The Star-TelegramIRVING, Texas — The patient's eyes blinked, his legs trembled and his toenails turned blue as he lay on a gurney inside an ambulance.Then he ...
By Firefighter/author Will Wyatt And a Paycheck, Too We deal with death so much in the emergency services that sometimes it becomes commonplace and, in a weird way, even humorous. ...
By Russ Reina, Paramedic/Author Moments in the Death of a Flesh Mechanic...a healer's rebirthWhen paramedic programs started in the privately owned ambulance sector in the early ...
Need a gift idea for a colleague at your agency? With the EMS1 Holiday Gift Guide you can find the perfect present! MONOPOLY: Emergency Medical Services Edition, $39.95: In this ...
Practicing and perfecting patient assessment is the most important task for any paramedic student. ...
Editor's note: Paramedic Sandra Bradley was one of many responders to tend to ground zero operations following the 9/11 attacks. In the new book "To The Rescue: Stories from ...
By Greg FrieseAs an EMS professional, I frequently visit Web sites like EMS1.com for news, events, and reference material. Nonetheless, there is still a lot information I can find ...
By Judith Prieve The East County TimesOAKLEY, Calif. — Sandra "Sam" Bradley has been a paramedic for 30 years and disaster responder for half that time, but she ...
The Uttoxeter AdvertiserUTTOXETER, U.K. — A paramedic who lost an eye after yobs attacked his ambulance has put pen to paper to tell of his long battle to rebuild his ...
By Jessica Belasco San Antonio Express-NewsAUSTIN, Texas — Rip Esselstyn is on a nationwide health crusade that started among friends in an Austin fire station.Esselstyn - a ...
By Christy Barritt The Virginian-PilotTIDEWATER, Va. — As an assistant professor, Diane Pettway knew that many of her students in the paramedic program at Tidewater Community ...
EMS must begin initiating own research, symposium attendees say ...
By Ryan Mills Naples Daily NewsCOLLIER COUNTY, Fla. — It's back to the books for a dozen Naples firefighters who are no longer able to work as paramedics after failing a test ...
During my years in EMS, I’ve witnessed significant weaknesses in two critically important developmental areas. First, we are generally trained and certified rather than educated ...
EMS is a broad field dealing with the medical care provided for patients who become suddenly ill or injured. The field includes both out-of-hospital and in-hospital emergency ...
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) literature is the printed word concerning EMS. This includes articles, books, computer software and WebPages. The literature can be divided into ...
