When buildings, land, apparatus, equipment and other assets are included as part of EMS departments, the agencies are multimillion-dollar organizations. Thus, they are businesses, and they must be ...

Janine E. Curcio and Dr. Robert Lowe provide a seven-point scale based on speech and responsiveness to decide whether or not to use sedation for an agitated patient. Managing an agitated or aggressive ...

May 26—Emergency medical services from the comfort of ... your couch ? A new state law passed earlier this year will allow EMS personnel to do just that for people with certain medical conditions. The ...

(TNS) — When emergency medical workers are inbound to a hospital with a patient, seconds count. Any delay in communication, such as an EMS crew being too far from a radio tower, can result in a slower ...

The arguments for integrating EMS data and making it available through the electronic medical record (EMR) system include improving continuity of care, supporting medical decision making (MDM), and ...