Posts Categorized: Ems Topics/patient Management
Fireground audio & raw video: Baltimore battalion chief calls in dwelling fire with jumpers.
Battalion chief returning from another fire when he spots this one. Jumpers in the front and back.
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Raw video: Woman pulled from apartment fire in North Attleboro, Massachusetts. Man dead on the scene.
Both victims were in the apartment where the fire started.
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Maine’s Franklin Hospital/Northstar Ambulance issues a non-statement about dying man’s wife claim she was left on side of road. Another lesson in reputation mismanagement.
Eight days after incident hospital and ambulance service have no facts to provide.
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Update: Skier’s widow says story is even worse than depicted. Maine hospital may release information on investigation today.
Some lessons in how not to handle the bad news.
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January 17th, 1908 – Scranton PA Fatal Knitting Mill Fire
SCRANTON FACTORY FILLED WITH GIRLS A PREY TO FLAMES
FOUR KILLED AND MANY MEET SERIOUS HURTS
Several Of The Victims Leaped From The Windows.
FEARFUL JAM ON A FIRE ESCAPE.
The Flames Gutted the Interior of the Knitting Mill in Which the Girls Were …
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30-years-ago today, twin disasters in DC. Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into the Potomac River followed by the first fatal Metro train accident. DCFD radio traffic, lessons learned & more.
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DCFD radio traffic from Air Florida Flight 90 and Metrorail crashes- Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Cockpit voice recorder audio from Air Florida Flight 90
Seconds From Disa…
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Christmas Dawn 1971
Mike's first Christmas on the job.
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Detroit EMS: One Year Later
Charles LeDuff: "Things Have Gotten Worse" for Detroit EMS
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Report & audio tapes from deadly Indiana State Fair collapse. TV station looks at lack of MCI plan & coordination.
TV station reports Indianapolis Fire Department had been on site in support role but became incident command by default.
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Raw video: Firefighters rescue man from burning home in Whitehall, Pennsylvania.
Report indicates man had gone back in to get his dogs.
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Not dead until the ambulance crew assesses the patient. A Winter Carnival memory.
A cautionary Winter Carnival tale of patient assessment
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Police CPR Saves Houston Reporter
Security video documents CPR performed by Metro police officer John Zepeda before Fire-Rescue arrives.
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Booze in the Nose.
of "alcohol on her breath". I've started a lot of charts like this. Seen PD run reports that said the same. I've seen it testified to in court.... And it is pretty interesting, in part because you can't smell alcohol. Sure, you can smell booze--the oth…
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Congrats to Captain Happy Medic
Happy Medic becomes the CQI Captain in Headquarters.
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Tripping at the Hospital – A Teachable Moment for EMS
Have you ever been called to an emergency on the property of a hosptial? A case in Canada provides a teachable moment for our profession.
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The Mendoza Line
Do you ever feel like we're playing a losing game?
The other day I went through my cardiac arrest statistics. Dispatched to 91 cardiac arrests since I became a medic. ~30/year. I have worked approximately 50% of those. I have EXACTLY 1 cardiac arrest …
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Naples Community Hospital fires medics, relinquishes ambulance permit
Hospital abandons interfacility ambulance service, but the issues that lead to the death of a stroke patient remain under investigation.
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Marco Island Fire Rescue ambulance delay report says hospital, FD & other agencies failed to meet community expectations. Chief says citizens deserve answers.
Hospital paramedic unit not staffed and problems in getting additional resources from multiple agencies.
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Pre-arrival video: Four-alarm fatal fire at Blue Fox Hotel in Whitehall, Pennsylvania.
Eight others reported injured including two firefighters.
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Hialeah, Florida department strips paramedic gear from fire trucks. Chief calls it a misunderstanding following ‘brainstorming’ session.
Chief says a "brainstorming" session to save money somehow became an order.
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Ambien made me post this…
Seriously. It did. I take ambien for sleep(12.5mg XR), as the chances of me sleeping on my own are not so good. But if I am awake past that first 40 minutes it makes me do crazy crap. Like post on my blog. Or clean out the fridge. OR trim, cut and cure 4…
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Mostly it’s the getting by thing…
We all joke in ways our families, friends and patients don't understand. See around the 3:20 mark of this video:
Godspeed, friends!
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Bomb Squad and Navy Hazmat Team Respond to Chemical Suicide. Will an H2S vehicle Suicide burn?
A church employee discovered the truck in the morning with a homemade note "Do Not Come Near. Truck Will Explode. Danger is Gas".
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Spinal Immobilization: You Make The Call
Now, an 80+ minute trip strapped to a spine board isn't the cruelest thing I can think of doing to this man, but the other two possibilities involve nipple clamps and a live ferret. He weighs less than his age, and his chart already includes orders for a Fentanyl patch PRN and gel seat pads for his wheelchair. I don't like the idea of boarding him if I can help it.
But we're not talking about what I would do. What would you do?
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Meet me in St. Charles! October 21-23 Gateway Midwest
Mike is spending his time and dime to get to the Gateway Midwest Go>Forward training event.
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