The Aliamanu fireworks blast just after midnight on New Year’s, a mass casualty event, set new precedents in emergency health ...
GFD is leveraging a mutual aid agreement with the Department of Defense and relying on first responders and dispatchers to triage calls effectively ... emergencies and continuing to build a stronger ...
For example, applying evidence-based triage tools in a colorblind way could ensure that “patients who are most likely to ...
resources and personnel of several neighboring EMS agencies. 1. Regional familiarization If the entire region is training on triage, when triage matters we all will be on the same page.
Time is of the essence during a medical emergency, and helicopter transport is often essential to saving a patient teetering ...
Volunteers on F.E. Warren Air Force Base were dressed with fake wounds Thursday morning, preparing to be part of an active ...
E911 dispatchers trained in medical dispatching triage calls to direct units to the most critical need. Four new ambulances have been procured and will be delivered later this year, bringing the ...
The relative efficiency and safety of local EDs, EMS triage and telemedicine systems is hard to judge, as there are significant operational, financial and political barriers towards the testing of ...
Medical City Decatur celebrated $400,000 in improvements to its emergency department with a community ribbon cutting on Wednesday. The facility renovations, technology updates and staffing ...
Based at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, the GO-TEAM is breaking barriers between prehospital and hospital care ...
The city is launching “neighborhood wellness courts,” a diversion program designed to issue citations and offer addiction treatment and other services in lieu of misdemeanor sentences.