Legal And Ethical

Terminating Resuscitation in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

The authors created this rule by examining retrospective data, then applied it prospectively to determine its impact on the number of patients transported who did not survive.

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Why Are You Transporting Dead Patients?

Agencies should define special circumstances under which deceased patients should still be transported to the hospital.

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Ethics in EMS Continue to Decline

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Fratricide

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007

A Lesson in Negligence

What constitutes 'willful and wanton' disregard for protocols?

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Maybe You Can't Go Home

A JEMS.com columnist re-joins her old volunteer fire department and finds it's not what it used to be.

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Ethics in EMS Continue to Decline

Is public sector EMS better?

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Withholding Resuscitation

Do not resuscitate orders and how to handle them.

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007


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