(HealthDay) -- A statewide coordinated effort across hospitals and emergency medical service (EMS) providers to transport patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) to hospitals providing percutaneous ...
Jun 5, 2012
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(Medical Xpress) -- Reviewing heart attack cases during monthly meetings with emergency medical services and maintaining a positive working environment are two of the relatively inexpensive strategies that can reduce mortality ...
May 1, 2012
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Fatigue and poor sleep quality, which affect many emergency medical services (EMS) workers, are linked to higher reported rates of injuries, medical errors and safety-compromising behaviors, according to a study by University ...
Nov 17, 2011
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All the chairs in the waiting room were filled by dozens of newly arrived migrants waiting to be seen by a Cook County health worker at a clinic in Chicago. Julio Figuera, 43, was among them.
Nov 2, 2023
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The sudden cardiac arrest of NFL football player Damar Hamlin during a televised game in early January shocked the nation, but his recovery following emergency resuscitation efforts administered on the field did something ...
Feb 10, 2023
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Earlier this year, Grace Elizabeth Elliott got a mysterious hospital bill for medical care she had never received.
Dec 28, 2022
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After a sexual assault, some victims are charged for the initial treatment and collection of evidence, even though U.S. federal law requires those services to be free.
Oct 27, 2022
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The Fierro family of Yuma, Arizona, had a string of bad medical luck that started in December 2020.
May 4, 2022
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In Los Angeles County, ambulance crews are being told to conserve oxygen and to not take certain trauma and cardiac arrest patients they can't resuscitate in the field. When ambulances do transport patients, they often wait ...
Jan 7, 2021
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Los Angeles ambulance workers have been told to stop transporting some patients with extremely low survival chances to hospital, and to limit oxygen use, as record COVID cases overwhelm medical resources.
Jan 5, 2021
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