ChicagoTribune.com BECKLEY, W.Va. — Plans for a countywide ambulance authority are still very much in the talking phase, despite rampant rumors to the contrary, according to ...
By Jason Cato Pittsburgh Tribune Review WEST VIRGINIA — A Beaver County paramedic who regularly gets called to help people in need felt called to assist in another way. He ...
The Baltimore Convention Center exhibit area was on fire with some incredible new advancements in EMS technology on display for EMS Today 2012. Many great new products were ...
By Yuka Obayashi Reuters TOKYO — Japan's Asahi Kasei Corp will buy U.S. medical equipment maker Zoll Medical Corp for $2.21 billion as it looks to build a globally ...
By Tara García Mathewson Chicago Daily Herald ELGIN, Ill. — Elgin paramedics on fire engines soon may be able to perform similar types of advanced life support ...
The UcapIt Dispensers are steel locking controlled access systems for all your EMS drugs, soft goods, hard goods or any other supplies. They provide immediate documented access to ...
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 ...
Ultrasound is imaging and interpretation of high frequency sound waves. It has been around for years, but little understood by EMS providers. New devices and applications were ...
In not much more than the past month, we have lost two truly great leaders in EMS products. They both shared many personality traits and leadership skills. ...
The Infrascanner 1000 is a handheld device for detection of life-threatening bleeding — intracranial hematomas — in the skull. It uses near-infrared (NIR) technology to screen ...
Do your loved ones have a hard time Christmas shopping for you? This guide will give them plenty of ideas for what to get the EMS professional in their life. Many of the products ...
Morphine, oxygen, nitrates, and aspirin — collectively known as MONA — are no longer the preferred door prizes for chest pain patients entering the emergency cardiac care system. ...
We have many tools and treatments at our disposal for these cases. Many of the treatments, such as defibrillation, dopamine, and stenting — well — they are kind of sexy. ...
Every five minutes, 12 Americans will have some type of acute coronary event, nine of those will be myocardial infarctions, and five of those people will die. ...
By Bo Petersen The Post and Courier ST. GEORGE, S.C. — The first scary wake-up about synthetic drugs called bath salts came in early January. A man crashed through the storm ...
This popular benzodiazapine is used for the treatment of anxiety and panic disorders. ...
By Steven K. Paulson Associated PressDENVER — A select group of paramedics in several states is helping to provide primary health care by making house calls — an ...
By John Heilprin Associated PressGENEVA — A human rights investigator for the United Nations says up to a quarter of the world's trash from hospitals, clinics, labs, blood ...
By Maria Cheng Associated PressLONDON — A bit of creativity never hurts, especially when it comes to solving health problems in developing countries.Instead of the usual ...
By Michael Pollick Sarasota Herald TribuneSARASOTA, Fla. — Like one of its vinyl-coated human health care simulators, METI is getting its breath back after a near-death ...
