It takes a lot of training and the latest technology to keep alive a heart attack patient, local EMS official Mike Fitzgibbons says. "The first minutes (after a heart attack) are absolutely critical," ...
TOBYHANNA, Pa. — As the lead athletic trainer, Evelyn Payne is used to standing on the sidelines at Pocono Mountain West High School in Tobyhanna Township. But today, she wasn't watching a practice or ...
Small changes to how EMS approaches airway management and ventilation can make big differences in OHCA outcomes ...
East Texas Medical Center EMS is the first in Texas to launch the PulsePoint CPR/AED smartphone application to help improve sudden cardiac arrest survival rates in communities served by ETMC EMS in ...
In Harrison and Hancock counties, our local out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rate is higher than the national average. This is an important and encouraging metric in general, but significantly ...
In Columbus, New York City and several other cities, ambulances take cardiac arrest patients whose hearts have been restarted by electric shock, but who remain unconscious, to hospitals that provide a ...
Sep. 5—WEATHERFORD — David Cruise doesn't remember much about the events on the morning of June 9. "I think what happened was a miracle, very humbling," he told some 50 Parker County EMS employees and ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Differences in emergency medical service agency resuscitation practices may partly account for widely varying ...