Ambulance Safety
This directory offers a curated selection of articles on Ambulance Safety, focusing on best practices for EMS professionals. Topics include safe driving techniques, equipment securing, and protocols to minimize risks during transport. Prioritizing Ambulance Safety is essential for protecting both patients and EMS personnel. Additionally, explore our resources on emergency vehicle operations, which are closely related to maintaining safety standards in the field. Use this directory to stay informed and ensure that your ambulance operations adhere to the highest safety standards.
Prevent and survive an attack by pre-planning your fight or flight response
A future EMT鈥檚 submission to the NPR student podcast challenge seeks to educate the public about lights and siren use
The NBC docuseries follows units in Los Angeles County, highlighting the positivity of the profession but also a problematic safety issue
Boyd County Sheriff鈥檚 Office deputies said that the NetCare employee who had been driving the ambulance kept changing his story
Lifeguards also extricated two women from the crashed vehicle; one woman was transported to a hospital as firefighters worked to remove the car
鈥淲e鈥檝e had multiple situations because of how poorly maintained our fleet of vehicles is, where an ambulance will break down en route to critical calls,鈥� the union president said
The driver of the truck that crashed with a Malta and McConnellsville Fire Department ambulance was pronounced dead at the scene
The EMS providers were transporting a cardiac arrest patient when their ambulance collided with a police vehicle and overturned
Vanessa Armstead was rescued from Irondequoit Bay last year, but the ambulance sank
Phillip Shane Bradford overpowered the sheriff鈥檚 deputy who took him to the hospital and fled in an ambulance, the sheriff鈥檚 office said
Sgt. Michael Daniel-Hagan became ill during a training exercise, was transported to a medical center with limited bed space and was being transferred
Baton Rouge police found that the EMS provider who had been driving the ambulance immediately rendered aid and took Kiyana Baskin, 20, to a hospital
Officials with the St. Charles County Ambulance District and the Metro West Fire District said they hope the technology improves safety and response times
All four EMTs were transported to a hospital after the crash that sent one rig careening into a building
James Lavelle Walley apologized Monday after pleading guilty to three counts of sexual battery and two counts of touching a child for lustful purposes
This week鈥檚 photo shows Advocate Children鈥檚 Hospital鈥檚 brand-new ambulance
Locust Twp. Police Chief Allen Breach said that the EMS provider was riding in the back of the rig, and she and her partner were not transporting a patient
The ambulance was taken from Sherman Oaks Hospital and struck the other vehicles about three minutes later; none of the injuries were reported to be serious
An attending doctor said the crash likely did not contribute to the patient鈥檚 death at Skokie Hospital
EMT Delilah Wells, who was in the back of the rig, the patient who was being transported, and two people in the other vehicle were injured
EMS improvement and research scientists join the podcast to discuss red lights and sirens project
No one was hurt in the incident, and the ambulance was found afterward
Firefighters freed the woman from underneath the vehicle and transported her to University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Putnam County EMS said that all injuries appear to be non-life-threatening and the ambulance crew was not transporting a patient at the time
One patient was transported to NYC Brooklyn, and another person refused medical assistance
The Poughkeepsie crew was utilizing the ambulance鈥檚 lights and siren when the incident occurred; the force of the impact caused the rig to crash into a streetlight and a fence
Police are looking for the person who got into the parked rig as providers were responding to a call
Listen as risk management expert Gordon Graham describes the dangers of not using a seat belt and all first responders鈥� responsibility to arrive safely
Board President Michael Redlener said that the best practices that come from the project will help every agency more safely respond to 911 calls
Lloyd Claycomb and the driver of the car that hit the rig were seriously injured; an EMS provider and a vehicle passenger had non-life-threatening injuries
The Boro Park Hatzalah crew was responding to a call at the time of the crash
Bushkill Emergency Medical Services employees said they left the ambulance parked when they took a patient into Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono
The crew was transporting a patient when the ambulance hit a utility pole in Chapel Hill
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