Saturday 3 March 2012

Standard Of Care-Spinal Fracture-Expiration Date-Owsley County-Wilson County

Immobilization or not that is the question – EMS Garage Episode 156

Any standard of care that does not have evidence of benefit needs to have an expiration date. What do we do that causes the most stress on an unstable spinal fracture?Placing a cervical collar and strapping them to a board increases the stress on any unstable spinal injury. read more..


Pedestrian hit and killed by an ambulance

BOONEVILLE, KY  – Only the markings remain on Kentucky 30 west, showing the accident scene where earlier today an ambulance hit an Owsley County man, killing him. It happened around 4:30pm in the Vincent community,just a few miles outside of Booneville. Alex Neely couldn’t believe his neighbor, Billy Smith, was gone. “I know the family [...] read more..


And That’s Why We Lock Our Ambulances

MT. JULIET, Tenn.–A man hopped into a Wilson County ambulance that was blocking his car and tried to move it while paramedics were loading a patient. http://www.jems.com/article/news/blocked-tenn-man-tries-move-ambulance Ambulances get stolen all the time, and yet many of us still think it’s OK to leave them unlocked. If someone truly wants inside your ambulance – or [...] read more..

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