NPR News STILLWATER, Minn.— Authorities in eastern Minnesota say first responders are dealing with a new and dangerous phenomenon -- chemical suicide. Washington County ...
Of 2011's total calls in Brandon, 72% were ambulance-related, 10% were MVA-related, 9% were alarms, 3.5% were investigations, 1% were carbon monoxide responses ...
What a year 2011 turned out to be. Many disaster drills were preempted by actual disasters, quite often achieving epic magnitudes: earthquakes, a tsunami, floods, a nuclear ...
Associated PressMERIDEN, Conn. — Ten residents of Meriden, Conn., including six children, have been hospitalized after they were exposed to carbon monoxide. A generator was ...
Capnography is the best tool since the EKG. It not only helps you diagnose and treat your patient, it also helps you see if your treatment is working. It has been around for a ...
The victims, including adults, teens and children, had attended a hockey tournament Sunday at an ice rink ...
By Alexandra Seltzer Palm Beach PostPALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — Palm Beach County Fire Rescue Capt. Don DeLucia calls it an electronic canary.The Drager Pac 3500 is a carbon ...
The Associated PressKILLINGTON, Vt. — Police say a suspected carbon monoxide leak at a Vermont ski chalet killed the Massachusetts man who owned the home and sickened eight ...
Sentinel & EnterpriseTOWNSEND, Mass. — Townsend Fire-EMS now has the latest advanced technology available to quickly, easily and painlessly determine if a person is ...
By Tim Minton and Grace West NBC New YorkNEW YORK — A six-year-old boy died yesterday after a ghastly 911 address mix-up.Mariela Lazaro called 911 when her son, Ian Uro, ...
EMS Command responded to call for a sick female, saved family after CO detectors began to sound ...
Did you know there are non-traditional uses of pulse oximetry that you may find handy in your clinical practice? Not only can you palpate blood pressures, but you can also use the ...
ModernMedicine.comWASHINGTON — Pulse oximetry of newborns may be able to detect congenital heart disease early and should be studied further for adoption as a routine newborn ...
Schoolchildren hospitalized after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning at a church in Southern California ...
The not-for-profit Volunteer Mobile Emergency Response Unit, based in rural central Texas, provides basic rehab for local departments in hopes of minimizing injury and line-of-duty ...
By EMS1 Staff EMS Today 2009 Product Roundups: New Products AED/Monitors Airway Management CO Screening Data Management Patient Handling While scaled back a bit from last year, EMS ...
The dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning have become more apparent within the EMS industry as first responders continue to become educated on its fatal effects. ...
Portable automated external defibrillators and ALS monitors continue to prove their usefulness out in the field for cardiac arrest and trauma patients; and the technology behind ...
By Steve Gehrke And Lindsay Whitehurst Salt Lake TribuneOGDEN, Utah — Forty-four people were hospitalized after being exposed to lethal levels of carbon monoxide at a ...
By Michael Davidson Daily Camera Related Articles: Non-invasive Screening for CO and MET BROOMFIELD, Colo. — By the time Michael Lombardi learned about the dangers of carbon ...
