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UPDATE: Woman left for dead dies
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007Top Stories A Texas State University senior who was presumed dead after a traffic collision and left unattended in the wreckage for more than two hours in near-freezing temperatures died of her injuries Monday afternoon, officials said.
Author: Brian Chasnoff
Submitted By: Erik Olufs (eolufs)
Medics Ambulance Service EMS Zone
Saturday Dec 15, 2007Top Stories Medics Ambulance Service will be taking over our Bls 911 zone January 1 2008. Currently AMR is providing this service in place of Medics.
Author: Andrew Cohen
Submitted By: andy cohen (gv132)
Atlanta Hospital Board Poised to Relinquish Operational Control
Monday Nov 26, 2007Top Stories In the 115-year life span of Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital, today could be historic. Several members of the Grady board say the board is poised to relinquish operational control of the hospital, aiming to save it from financial ruin.
Author: Craig Schneider
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Interactive X-Word Challenge: Paramedic Patient Assessment
Monday Nov 26, 2007Author: Philip Hayes
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
City's offer: Get paid to become a Honolulu EMT
Sunday Nov 25, 2007Top Stories With 18 percent of Honolulu's emergency medical technician and paramedic positions vacant, the city has decided to start paying people to learn the job.
Author: Treena Shapiro
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Off-duty EMT kills wife, self
Sunday Nov 25, 2007Top Stories DETROIT -- Police are working today to determine why an emergency medical technician fatally shot his wife and wounded his 9-year-old son a day before killing himself.
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Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Rural/Metro Wins $30 Mln. Contract To Continue 911 Ambulance Services In Rochester
Sunday Nov 25, 2007Top Stories Rural/Metro Corp. on Monday revealed the receipt of a new contract term to continue as the exclusive provider of 911 emergency ambulance services in Rochester, New York.
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Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Senetor Tom Carper announces volunteer firefighter / EMS legislation
Saturday Nov 24, 2007Author:
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Firefighters Taking New Role as Anti-Terrorist Eyes of the US Government
Friday Nov 23, 2007WMD & Terrorism Watch Washington - Firefighters in major cities are being trained to take on a new role as lookouts for terrorism, raising concerns of eroding their standing as trusted American icons and infringing on people's privacy.
Author: Eileen Sullivan
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Some more of the brutal novel from Carl Post
Friday Nov 23, 2007Essays In The History Of EMS EMS Village continues to preview Carl Post's novel about one volunteer scramble call that causes a civil war over the course of just 96 hours. A call is comprised of victims and caregivers. It affects all of them. And sometimes the surrounding society as well? Offered here in several installments and lightly censored as needed to maintain decorum! Ed.
Author: Carl J. Post
Submitted By: carl post (NYGRADEMSRET)
Interactive EMT-I Patient Assessment Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle Released
Monday Nov 19, 2007Instrctor's Corner Sirius Innovations, LLC is please to announce the latest in a series of educational tools for EMS Instructors and students. This month we cover vocabulary words for the EMT-I dealing with Patient Assessment.
Author: Philip L. Hayes
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Services set for Dallas paramedic killed in traffic accident
Monday Nov 19, 2007Off Duty Funeral arrangements have been set for a Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedic killed over the weekend in a traffic accident.
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Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Texas: Off-duty paramedic killed in two-car crash
Sunday Nov 18, 2007Off Duty Julio Alvarado Jr. had seen the damage speeding cars inflict. He'd pulled people from crushed metal, revived some of them and helped extinguish blazing wrecks. It was his job as a Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedic for the last three years, and he loved it.
Author:
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
MRSA in Healthcare Settings
Saturday Nov 17, 2007Author: CDC
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
FACT SHEET: Invasive MRSA
Saturday Nov 17, 2007Author: CDC
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
INTRO: Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Guidance for Healthcare Workers and Healthcare Employers
Friday Nov 16, 2007Author: OSHA
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
OSHA solicits public input on comprehensive emergency response standard
Friday Nov 16, 2007Author: OSHA
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
First chapter of a brutal EMS novel
Wednesday Nov 14, 2007Essays In The History Of EMS This is the first chapter of a long novel about EMS volunteer life in Queens and Brooklyn. The author has just finished it and wants the EMSVillage mainstays to fire away at this attempt at reality therapy. Carl's fourth novel. He has been a radical, provocative and annoying facet of EMSVillage since its very early days. Fire away? Or enjoy it?
Author: Carl J. Post
Submitted By: carl post (NYGRADEMSRET)
Funeral for New York ambulance worker to draw thousands
Monday Nov 12, 2007Author:
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Heart Attack Survival Rates Double Following Implementation of New Guidelines
Friday Nov 09, 2007Author:
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Families of Fla. Drowning Victims Seek Answers from Responding Paramedics
Thursday Nov 08, 2007Top Stories Relatives of Johnnie “Chubby” Schoolfield Jr. and his longtime friend, Theo Thomas, gathered with friends and community activists Wednesday night to confront the Manatee County paramedics who did not rush into a pond that night in Bradenton to save the
Author:
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Fort Worth Adds Pandemic Kits to Emergency Preparedness Strategy
Thursday Nov 08, 2007Author:
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Emergency responder dies following crash
Thursday Nov 08, 2007Author:
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
New Emergency Response Computer System Announced
Wednesday Nov 07, 2007Computers & Technology U.S. scientists have created a computer architecture that enables the secure transmission of information to first responders during emergencies. Princeton University researchers said the architecture allows the transmission of sensitive information during such instances as natural disasters, fires or terrorist attacks.
Author: UPI Science News
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
FAA won't allow cardiac-arrest machine at traffic-control center
Tuesday Nov 06, 2007Top Stories WASHINGTON - Though defibrillators are required on all airplanes and in most airports, many air traffic controllers in the nation's 500-plus control centers would be far from the nearest life-saving device should they suffer a heart attack.
Author: Nina Petersen-Perlman, Star Tribune
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Specialized California Disaster Team Undertakes First Task
Monday Oct 29, 2007Top Stories A unique team of Bay Area disaster specialists led by a San Carlos man was dispatched on its inaugural mission last week to San Diego County, where they provided medical support to people displaced from their homes by the firestorms that ravaged the region.
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Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
MRSA: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Healthcare Settings
Sunday Oct 28, 2007Author: CDC
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Hero performed by Michael Israel in New York
Sunday Oct 28, 2007Off Duty Don't miss the end...wonderful surprises all the way through. HERO is an amazing accomplishment, a performance you watch with your heart. This work has helped raise interest and awareness for many charities and worthy causes.
Author: YouTube
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Call for Nominations: International Awards Honoring Flood and Swiftwater Rescue
Friday Oct 26, 2007Author: Swiftwater Rescue Committee of the National Association for Search and Rescue
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Local Ambulance Driver Dancing While Driving On YouTube
Friday Oct 26, 2007Top Stories McKEESPORT, Pa. -- A local ambulance driver has made his way onto YouTube.com. The three-minute video shows the ambulance driver dancing in his seat to Justin Timberlake’s popular tune, “Sexy Back,” as he speeds through busy roads and intersections in McKeesport.
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Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Unity Man Killed In Crash On Way To Work; Brother First EMT On Scene
Thursday Oct 25, 2007Top Stories UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Police said a 28-year-old Westmoreland County man was killed Thursday morning in Unity Township in a crash on his way to work.
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Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
FREE Operation SafeEMS™ Program CD Offered By Ferno
Monday Oct 22, 2007Author: Ferno
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
CDC estimates 94,000 invasive drug-resistant staph infections occurred in the U.S. in 2005
Saturday Oct 20, 2007Author: CDC
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Changes Made to PSOB Determination Process
Monday Oct 15, 2007Author: NVFC Press Release
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
PSOB Determination Process Amended
Monday Oct 15, 2007Author: NAEMT Press Release
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Pamela Cohen Named NAEMT Executive Director
Monday Oct 15, 2007Author: NAEMT Press Release
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
FFs & medics with PTSD after 9-11 complain about benefits.
Monday Oct 15, 2007Author: Dave Statter
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Retired NY Giants Great George Martin Begins 'a Journey for 9/11'
Sunday Oct 14, 2007Top Stories 3,200+ Mile Cross-Country Trek from George Washington Bridge to Golden Gate Bridge Will Benefit Thousands of Sick WTC Rescue and Recovery Workers
Author: Business Wire Press Release
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Winnipeg Paramedics Call for Bulletproof Vests
Saturday Oct 13, 2007Top Stories Winnipeg paramedics say they are increasingly dealing with cases involving violent crime - and they aren't properly equipped to deal with it.
Author:
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
MA: American Medical Response laying off 35, closing
Friday Oct 12, 2007Top Stories PITTSFIELD — American Medical Response, one of two emergency medical response companies in Pittsfield, will close its local operation as of Dec. 31.
Author:
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Justice for the 9/11 Nine (New York State Bill S3070 and A04364)
Tuesday Oct 09, 2007Author: MARVIN BETHEA
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
VIDEO: Rising obesity rate poses challenge for emergency services
Monday Oct 08, 2007Author: ERIN OCHOA
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Multistate Outbreak of E. coli O157 Infections Linked to Topp's Brand Ground Beef Patties
Sunday Oct 07, 2007Author: CDC
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Emergency Workers Set to Cross-Train
Sunday Oct 07, 2007Top Stories Toby Halliday had many questions, but this was one of the biggest: Why do firetrucks often arrive before ambulances to medical emergencies in the District?
Author:
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
New California EMT regulations are questioned
Saturday Oct 06, 2007Top Stories A bill calling for mandatory criminal background checks for emergency medical technicians became seriously flawed in its final incarnation and will prevent regulators from punishing rogue rescuers, according to a top county medical administrator.
Author: Andrew McIntosh, Bee Staff Writer
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
CT SWEETHEARTS: Emergency! Heart attacked by paramedic
Saturday Oct 06, 2007Off Duty Normally, Michael Cattey is a confident man with nerves of steel. As a firefighter and EMT, he has to be. But when the man who resigned himself to being a lifelong bachelor fell in love, he also fell apart.
Author: CARRIE MACMILLAN
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Change in RSI Procedure Disputed in Colorado Springs
Friday Oct 05, 2007Author: Pam Zubeck
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED: 9/11 Responders Appeal For Equal Benefits
Tuesday Oct 02, 2007Author: MARVIN BETHEA
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Drunk EMT rants to 911, cop say
Monday Oct 01, 2007Top Stories STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Drunken dialing's always a bad idea, especially when the number you're dialing is 911.
Author: JOHN ANNESE
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)
Seat belts help save two Maryland firefighters after tire blows on brush truck.
Monday Oct 01, 2007Author: Dave Statter
Submitted By: EMSV Staff (Admin)


