Operations And Protcols

Records Contradict City Account of DC Toddler's Death

The documents clearly show Engine 33 with a paramedic on board arrives first at 4:56:45 a.m. on February 10, 2010. Medic 33 arrived at the Southern Avenue address at 4:58:28 a.m., nearly two minutes later, but they were the only ones to go inside.

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Registering Change: CARES helps EMS improve performance on cardiac arrest calls

CARES registry tracks EMS cardiac resuscitation performance; FICEMS finds states woefully unprepared for flu pandemic; DC Fire & EMS at the center of a wrongful death suit as medical director steps down; and more.

Posted Monday, March 8, 2010

Daytona Medics Provide Quick Help during Bike Week

Rescue crews have found a unique way to get to the scene faster as roads in Daytona Beach turn dangerous during Bike Week.

Posted Monday, March 8, 2010

Buffalo Medic Gets Punched While Trying to Render Care

A Rural Metro paramedic got more than he bargained for while responding to a call in Buffalo.

Posted Monday, March 8, 2010

Pennsylvania Paramedic Fatally Injured in Chase with Patient

Police say the unidentified suspect has a history of mental illness and is being evaluated at a hospital, according to the Associated Press.

Posted Monday, March 8, 2010

Coral Gables Couple Charged Again with Stealing, Selling Patient Records

Ruben E. Rodriguez and wife Maria Victoria Suarez have been indicted again for paying an ambulance-company employee to steal information on patients transported to Miami-Dade hospitals.

Posted Monday, March 8, 2010

Six Reported Dead, Many Injured in Passenger Bus Rollover South of Phoenix

The accident quickly scene became a mass of police and rescue personnel as ambulances arrived and rescuers broke out windows of the bus to get to victims, setting up a triage area in the middle of the interstate.

Posted Friday, March 5, 2010

Bus Crash Kills Six in Arizona

A passenger bus crashes and kills six people on Interstate 10 south of Ahwatukee.

Posted Friday, March 5, 2010

Investigators Look at Toddler s Death and D.C. Ambulance Transport

The paramedics and EMS personnel involved in this case are on administrative duty and are not to have contact with patients.

Posted Thursday, March 4, 2010

Armed Patient Shoots Connecticut Nurse

Witnesses told police that nursing supervisor Andy Hull, a 35-year-old former Marine, jumped in to disarm Lupienski when he pulled the gun out and pointed it at another staff member.

Posted Thursday, March 4, 2010