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http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/02/fulton_womans_family_sues_afte.html Fulton, NY -- Oswego County sheriff’s deputies handcuffed a combative, hallucinating woman behind her back to protect her from herself when they responded to a suicide attempt at her home in 2006. In the...

An Atlanta city councilman used Twitter to help save the life of a woman who suffered a seizure in northeast Atlanta. He said he used Twitter because his cell phone battery was running low and he didn't want to end up stuck on hold with 911. Within seconds, dozens of Hall's Twitter followers...

DC Paramedics performed care on a simulator, of which the findings were poor, to say the least. D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and Fire Chief Dennis Rubin released a written statement to News4 saying: * The assessment is one of the many efforts that the department is undertaking to improve the...

Yesterday I brought in an unresponsive patient who's mother stated she had c/o headaches "all day" - of course I thought stroke....the pupils were equal and reactive, there was no fixed deviation of the eyes either way, and no facial droop. The nurse at the hospital told me this "didn't matter"...

So I was part of a call yesterday that has to be chalked up to an unlikely chain of events...like that Final Destination movie...we arrive to find a lady at the bottom of an outdoors concrete staircase and think she just slipped and fell down the stairs. Turns out that on top of a hill located...

Has anyone taken 'The difficult airway course for EMS providers' as shown on www.theairwaysite.com? I have a friend who recommended the class to me, and I'm looking into taking the class as well. I've seen the SLAM classes hailed and praised, but they don't have classes near here, while this...

So in my refresher class the other day, I heard of a pretty simple way to "pad the void" in the lower back when your patient is on a LBB - use the thigh BP cuff, slide it in while it's flat, and pump it up until your patient has relief. It's so simple I almost felt dumb not thinking of it...