CPR Turns 50 This Year! Help Celebrate a Half-Century of Saving Lives!
The San Francisco Paramedic Association, the City and County of San Francisco, the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association, the American Heart Association and the Heart Safe Region Task Force are working to...
View ArticleTeaching CPR to lay rescuers
Do you aspire to become an EMS educator? If so, learning how to teach CPR to lay rescuers — and teach it well — is an excellent first step.
View ArticlePrehospital treatment for stroke victims
Treatment for stroke involves thrombolytic therapy. This can only properly be done in the hospital. There is a narrow window for treatment to take place, and that requires prehospital providers to take...
View ArticleCPR class instruction: 5 ways to make it great
My most recent healthcare provider recertification was memorable for all of the things the instructors did well.
View ArticleWhy we perform serial 12-lead ECGs on patients with signs consistent with ACS
As the medical professional on the scene, it's imperative that our actions are reasonable and prudent. That means performing a mental status exam to make sure the patient possesses decisional capacity...
View ArticleWho should receive a prehospital 12-lead ECG?
The primary purpose of the 12-lead ECG is to screen patients for cardiac ischemia, especially for acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). This allows EMS personnel to triage suspected acute...
View ArticleECG Challenge: Winter, spring or summer
How would you treat 68-year-old male complaining of chest pain, grayish in color but very warm and diaphoretic?
View ArticleECG Solution: Winter, spring or summer
Did you pick the right treatment based off the patient's ECGs?
View ArticleSlow and steady can win the race in cardiac treatment
Recent research has shown some patients can do just as well with medication route as when electively undergoing angioplasty
View ArticleVideo: Top 5 EMS saves of 2012
As with every year, responders and everyday heroes across the world have made some amazing rescues and saves. As paramedics and EMTs, you can train all you want, but you never know when you'll have to...
View ArticleFamily blames TSA for father's death
After six hours of intense interrogation, the man died of an apparent heart attack
View ArticleHeart attack victim saved by friend he had not seen for 30 years
By Steve White Mirror GREATER MANCHESTER, England — A dad who almost died when his heart stopped was saved by an old friend he had not seen for 30 years. William Coop, 46, collapsed from a cardiac...
View ArticleAfter near-death experience, firefighter marries at EMT station
By Rebecca Zeminick The News-Item WILLIAMSTOWN, Pa. — On December 8, William Fetterolf, better known as DJ Golddust or Bill, was at the Williamstown EMS Building, not working, or being treated for an...
View ArticleVideo: Firefighter suffers heart attack while battling fire
ABC 27 CAMP HILL, Pa. — Firefighters never fear bursting into burning homes, but after fighting a blaze this week, Carlisle firefighters feared the worst and it wasn't because of flames or smoke....
View ArticleCoast Guard rescues heart disease victim from boat
NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard says it airlifted a man with heart disease from a sailboat in the stormy Gulf of Mexico to shore in Louisiana. The Coast Guard said officials were called early Thursday...
View ArticlePhoto: Woman holds her own heart
By Alice Philipson The Telegraph The woman, named as Penny by her friend Kelsey on photo sharing website Imgur, can be seen wearing a medical mask as she grips what appears to be her old heart. 'Penny'...
View ArticleMedic suspended after not spotting heart attack
By Alexander Lawrie Scotland on Sunday FORTH VALLEY, Scotland — A paramedic who failed to spot a patient having a heart attack has been suspended from the profession. Claire Jolly did not carry out the...
View ArticleProve It: Improving CPR Quality Increases ROSC Rates
The two most important interventions for improving the outcome of patients who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are timely defibrillation and the administration of high-quality chest...
View ArticleOff-duty firefighter/medic saves cardiac arrest victim
RYE, N.H. — A N.H. firefighter/paramedic saved the life of a man who collapsed during a pick-up game of hockey. Firefighter/paramedic Jake MacGlashing, 32, a five-year veteran of the Rye Fire...
View ArticleFirefighter has medical emergency en route to fire
By Sonia Azad KTRK HOUSTON — There was a scare for a Houston firefighter this morning as he had to be rushed to the hospital because of a medical emergency. The firefighter was taken to the hospital...
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