EMT

After a bad incident, the teenage Mike Thomas decided he would have become a paramedic, like the first responder who saved his life that day.

Dehydration must not be underestimated in paramedics and first responders! On what occasions heat can impact on responders and how to avoid health complications?

Acute stroke is a time-dependent condition. If it happens in a prehospital setting, practitioners have to know how to treat the patient in the best and fastest way as possible. Here the results of a pilot study in Genova (Italy).

Now that COVID-19 is going backwards, the world is slowly trying to return to its normal activities, and pollution will increase its presence in the air again. In this article we wish to analyse an aspect that regards EMS and pollution.…

Emergency medical technicians (EMTs), like paramedics, respond to emergency calls, perform medical services and patients transport witht the ambulance to hospitals. They are dispatched to care the sick or injured in emergency medical…

As the coronavirus (COVID-19) is keeping its spread on through the United States, the FDNY added 100 ambulances to face the pandemic in the Big Apple.

Around 500 EMTs and paramedics on 250 ambulances from all over the US are reaching New York City, these days, in order to support the Big Apple's colleagues in this fight against COVID-19.

The ambulance is an essential vehicle to provide emergency medical assistance in pre-hospital care scenarios. That’s the vehicle on which paramedics and EMTs yearly save millions of people all over the world. But as they prodigate to save…

Are you considering a career in the medical field to save lives as an EMT but don’t know how? Here are 10 simplified steps to show you the path to becoming a successful EMT.

PTSD is a serious condition of mental injury that hits first responders, in particular. The intense stress of working in emergency and seeing people dying many times brings you to mental disease.