It probably doesn’t surprise anyone that patient assessment is a crucial skill set when it comes to evaluating and treating patients at all levels of EMS care. Perhaps less recognized but just ...

Undertake a visual assessment – does the patient “look” thin? For example, are rings obviously loose on fingers; Use a weighing bed. These may not give an accurate body weight but may provide the ...

The Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (RASS) was the most common, quickly adopted tool by many EMS agencies and charting programs, but its development and practice is in assessment of ICU-type ...

The Sangamon County State's Attorney shared that Earl L. Moore Jr., 35, died while he was in the care of two Lifestar EMS workers. Peter Cadigan and Peggy Finley were arrested for First Degree Murder.

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But the real key to the software is for EMS to see how the patient did and use the information to improve for the next call. “It allows them to be more aware of those signs that maybe the ...

According to numbers provided by Escambia EMS to Hofberger, Baptist Health Care paid close to $600,000, HCA West Florida about $3.2 million, and Ascension Sacred Heart spent close to $2.3 million ...

Apr. 1—A Somerset-Pulaski EMS ambulance was involved in a two-vehicle wreck in Garrard County, costing the lives of the driver and the patient. Emergency Medical Chastian McWhorter, 26, of ...

Virginia Beach EMS is now utilizing field ultrasounds, ... “A patient with cardiac arrest that we might be treating, we can see if the treatment that we’re doing is effective.

Out of all EMS cases, 24.3% of cases were predicted to have sepsis by at least one of the screening tools, but only 0.9% were predicted to have sepsis by all four tools simultaneously. Related Stories ...