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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.
Better stroke patient outcomes? A systematic review
What to do to have a better outcome in stroke patients? One of the solutions will start from the analysis of the patient delay in entering hospitals with stroke symptoms.
Medics win bravery award for breaking rules to save Alton Towers crash victim Leah Washington
Three medics who scaled a roller-coaster to save the life of Alton Towers crash victim Leah Washington have won an award for their bravery
Army doctor Major David Cooper, 34, and aircrew paramedic Tom Waters, 27, were on duty with…
Chest Compression: mechanical or manual? A systematic review
The Resuscitation Journal published on September an Open Access article to summarise the evidence from randomized controlled trials of mechanical chest compression devices used during resuscitation after out of hospital cardiac arrest.
New Zealand paramedics will be regulated as health practitioners: "We were like taxi services"
Ambulances are not a different kind of TAXI. And the scope of the paramedics are changed
NEW ZAELAND DOCTOR - Paramedical organisations say they would welcome paramedics being regulated as health practitioners. Paramedics Australasia…
104-minute ambulance wait for emergency patient who should have been reached in eight minutes
A woman whose life was considered at risk because of head pain was forced to wait more than an hour and a half for an ambulance, it has emerged.
Paramedics reached the 36-year-old woman in Staffordshire in 104 minutes - well short of…
Fire-EMS: Next-gen 'vanbulances'
By Robert Avsec for EMS1
Type II ambulances are built on a van-type chassis and have been an ambulance mainstay for EMS agencies for many years. The popularity of the Type II ambulance is usually attributed to three things: lower initial…