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On board with the Master of Motorcycle Ambulance paramedics pilot!
The most exiting ambulance in the world is the Motorcycle ambulances. This is a a type of emergency vehicle which carries a solo paramedic or first responder to a patient. Sometimes the motorcycle could be a sidecar, but usually in Europe…
Exclusive: the new revolution in ambulance transportation bears the name of Spencer Italia
PARMA - A new technological revolution is about to change transporting patients in ambulance. Spencer Italia, the international leader in production of emergency medical devices is about to show an exclusive innovation in the field of…
Why there is a paramedics' strike in Netherlands?
Ambulance crews announce nationwide strike for today
Paramedics across the Netherlands will hold their first-ever nationwide work stoppage on Wednesday, the FNV union announced on Tuesday. Ambulance crews will only respond to dispatch…
Bigger stretcher needed: Obese woman died at home
Bristol woman who died was too large to fit in ambulance, inquest told
SOURCE: BRISTOL POST - An emergency response to an obese woman who died after being taken ill at home was delayed, because paramedics had to search for a bigger…
Availability of resources for emergency care at a second-level hospital in Ghana: A mixed methods…
Open access funded by African Federation for Emergency Medicine
Authors: Kennedy B. Japiong, Godfried Asiamah, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Peter Donkor, Barclay Stewart, Beth E. Ebel, Charles N. Mock
Emergency care is an essential component of…
Colour-coded 999 ambulance service call system in Wales
A new system for dealing with 999 calls for ambulance service in Wales has come into force.
Medicare paid $30M for ambulance transports that never happened
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Medicare paid $30 million for ambulance rides for which no record exists that patients got medical care at their destination, the place where they were picked up or other critical…
Bike ambulance, the First Responders are faster on 2 wheels
QUEEN’S ROAD (TIMES OF INDIA) - Seventy-three-year-old Ramamurthy is a diabetic who recently went under the knife. When he experienced difficulty in breathing, he dialled 108 for the emergency response services, and was soon attended to by…
Ambulance service a good fit at Exeter Fire Department
EXETER TOWNSHIP, PA. - Just days after the Muhlenberg Area Ambulance Association handed off the reins to Exeter Township's fire-department-based emergency medical service, the department had its brand-new service model tested last week.…
Personality Traits that Ambulance Workers' Professional Performance
An interesting study has been published on Procedia about the personality traits that foster professional workers in the ambulance and pre-hospital field.