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Salt Lake County Paramedics Get New Devices to Aid Heart Attack
Salt Lake County paramedics are being equipped with new devices to speed treatment of heart attack sufferers - and South Jordan is leading the way.
Aging population, payment and liability issues drive increasing calls to long term care facilities
Firefighters at Station 7 in Columbia rushed to the same nursing home three times during two recent 24-hour shifts. Only one of those 911 calls - for a patient in "respiratory distress" - was a true emergency, crew members said, but firefighters still took all three residents to a hospital by ambulance.
Why Are You Transporting Dead Patients?
Agencies should define special circumstances under which deceased patients should still be transported to the hospital.
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