EMS News

The Fox Medows EMS service is facing a $1 Million dollar civil lawsuit from the family of a heart attack victim. The Family is claiming emotional distress after seeing their grandfather squeezed to death by a Lucas2 CPR machine.

President Trump is overseas for the 2017 EMS week. But that fact is not what has EMS workers as upset as what Trump said in a recent speech. Trump called paramedics ambulance drivers.

The World-Famous Resuscitations R Us Academy has completed its analysis of the 2014 AHA guidelines changes and has given an exclusive sneak-peak to Call The Cops.

Articles critical of police patrol operations have pointed out that ambulances don’t patrol looking for sick people. EMS administrators see this as an opportunity to practice pro-active medicine and provide some revenue.

The federal government has issued a cease and desist order to all state department of health agencies ordering all EMS agencies to stop using their ambulances. Any ambulance made under the current US standards the Obama administration is claiming has ...

After the Obama administration said they would stop the police from getting Military Surplus equipment the military is trying to find other ways to recycle gear. When it comes to the MRAP vehicles the Military has found the perfect home, ...

Most ambulances can be classified as ALS or BLS units. Soon a new acronym might become common to hear, NET for Non-Emergency health care Transport. BLS or Basic Life support are ambulances staffed mostly by EMTs. These ambulances have oxygen, ...

Fast food employees demanding raises to $15 an hour have spurred EMS workers to also seek better living wages. Paramedics from Raylan EMS service say they will go on strike if their pay is not raised to $20 an hour.

Indiana passed a religious freedom restoration act this week. The allows business to refuse service to gay people over religious feeling about homosexuality. The law does not allow EMS to refuse to respond to calls, but a loop hole allows individual medic to refuse services. In response now dispatchers have to ask if the patient is gay.

Years ago many emergency workers used 10-codes to communicate over radio systems. In the wake of some disaster and terror attack responses these codes were abandoned to "normal speak" on radios. Now the federal government wants to bring the codes back.