Apparal.com ELKTON, Md. — W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., has launched a new website at www.GoreProtectiveFabrics.com to provide a comprehensive resource for Gore's ...
2011 was an exciting year full of technological advances in EMS. Many highly sophisticated new devices were introduced, each taking years to develop ...
EMS1 is focusing on news and information about Personal Protective Equipment throughout the month of March. Check out some of these great products currently on the site: ...
HAIX, a leading manufacturer of high quality fire fighting, rescue, and law enforcement footwear, announces the release of the new Airpower R7 to its EMS footwear line up. ...
By Greg FrieseThe ice and snow at the end of driveway broke free just as I began to push our patient, strapped to a stair chair, across to the dry roadway next to ambulance. I ...
By Greg FriesePersonal protective equipment (PPE) is the barrier between EMS professionals and bloodborne pathogens, airborne pathogens, wet and dry chemicals, environmental ...
By Jamie Thompson EMS1 Senior Editor ATLANTA — Effective hand washing by EMS personnel is the most effective way to combat the spread of infectious diseases in the ...
By Michael McHugh The Press AssociationDUBLIN, Ireland — Efforts to prevent drunks and hooligans from abusing ambulance staff and firemen in Northern Ireland have failed to ...
By Helen Branswell The Canadian PressTORONTO — Surgical masks appear to protect health-care workers from catching the flu as well as N95 respirators do in most settings, a ...
By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Health workers caring for patients who have or may have swine flu should wear a special type of mask called an N95 ...
Police training accidentally sends gas into town, exposing citizens to toxins ...
Police: Incident will be treated as criminal investigation until proven an accident ...
By EMS1 StaffNEW SOUTH WALES, Australia — In an effort to protect workers from the H1N1 influenza virus, all members of the Ambulance Service of New South Wales, Australia, ...
Columbus paramedics wear body armor and helmets and join SWAT teams during raids and shootings ...
By Franks Jordans and Maria Cheng The Associated Press GENEVA — The head of the World Health Organization quizzed health officials from several nations in a conference call ...
The Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. — The Navy is reporting 21 cases of swine flu on board the USS Iwo Jima.Navy spokesman Cmd. Cappy Surette says the Centers for Disease ...
By Omar Sinan The Associated Press CAIRO — A foreign students' dormitory for the American University in Cairo has been put under 24 quarantine Monday after two U.S. students ...
By Carrie Antlfinger The Associated PressMILWAUKEE — Health officials in Wisconsin, California, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Utah reported deaths from swine flu on Thursday, ...
By Carol J. Williams The Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Thunder rumbled through the Southland and freak storms pelted the region with hail, lightning and unseasonable rain, ...
WINNIPEG, Canada — Winnipeg paramedics who transported northern Manitoba patients suspected of having swine flu might have contracted the H1N1 influenza A virus that causes ...
