Restraints

No Pain, No Gain

Moving the„EMS machine toward safety and success is often difficult, painful and time consuming for the change agent.

Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Injured Ambulance Passengers Awarded $6.4 Million

After a seven-day trial, the jury returned a $6.4 million verdict to two people being carried from the scene of a crash between an ambulance and a disabled motor vehicle.

Posted Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Rizo-Patron Enterprises X-Collar

The new X-Collar from Rizo-Patron Enterprises is designed to immobilize the cervical spine by contracting and anchoring the collar to the occipital and facial bones of the skull, and to the torso at the level of the clavicle and scapula.

Posted Friday, September 28, 2007

Ammonia Inhalants

A book called The Music of the Primes recently crossed my reading table. It s the tale of how millennia of mathematicians have tried to unravel the mysteries of prime numbers. I m not a math guy whatsoever, but the book was interesting in that it showed how mathematicians think and that many of them are just plain nuts.

Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Ammonia Inhalants

Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Proper Strap Tightness for Immobilization

A recent study was conducted at the University of North Carolina Hospitals Emergency Department in an attempt to define adequate spinal immobilization.

Posted Sunday, August 5, 2007

Proper Strap Tightness for Immobilization

A recent study was conducted at the University of North Carolina Hospitals Emergency Department in an attempt to define adequate spinal immobilization.

Posted Sunday, August 5, 2007

Taking a Bird's Eye View: CPAP, Safety and Governing EMS

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Child and Provider Restraints in Ambulances

The purpose of the survey was to measure the knowledge, opinions, and behaviors of EMS providers regarding pediatric and provider restraint use in ambulances.

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007