JEMS

JUNE 27, 2025

About 14 students were treated at the scene by paramedics, the South Central Ambulance Service said. Two helicopters, five ambulances and fire crews responded to the crash. Its front windows were smashed and mud was splattered on its side. A large section of bridge railing was missing.

Mobile Integrated Health

High Performance EMS

JUNE 12, 2023

With expected delays beyond that time limit, it may be acceptable to dispatch a BLS unit to begin care while still allowing the ALS resource to join the response from a longer distance. A Bravo request could be most efficiently served in a BLS capacity with longer response times before it would be deemed late.

BLS

High Performance EMS

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Figure 2 Sample data demonstrating ALS (green) and BLS (blue) call volume comparisons by hour-of-the-day and day-of-the-week. It is also common for ambulances to be busy longer than an hour in our post-pandemic world. Notice the similarity in daily patterns although total volume (represented by 90th percentile) is unique.

UHU

Irish College of Paramedics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Crewing Models: There are varying models of pre-hospital care ranging from paramedic provision of care through the mix of First Aid (Tanigawa and Tanaka 2006) Basic Life Support (BLS), immediate care, Advanced Life Support (ALS) and the many associated specialist paramedicine grades. 2014), BLS (Sanghavi et al. 2000, Stiell et al.

Emergency Medical Technician

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The ambulance report says "BP continued to drop during transport and pt remained cold and clammy." The EMS crew was only BLS certified, so EKG interpretation is not within their scope of practice. EMS obtained the following vital signs: pulse 50, respiratory rate 16, blood pressure 96/49.

E-9-1-1

Paramedic Training Spot

DECEMBER 8, 2021

These prerequisites include maintaining a valid EMT-B certificate or higher, successfully completing a CAAHEP-accredited education program within the past 2 years, maintaining valid CPR-BLS credentials or their equivalent, and successfully completing the cognitive and psychomotor examination portions of the NREMT-P curriculum.

Paramedic

BoostPrep

APRIL 26, 2022

Cyanosis and an increase in respiratory rate were noticed approximately five minutes before the nurse requested an ambulance. Any incident that requires two or more ambulances. In addition to completing a state approved course, you must also have a current CPR-BLS certificate (basic life support).

EMT

NAEMSP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The responding BLS crew was unable to initiate adequate resuscitation, despite signs of shock. Steroids such as methylprednisolone (Solu-Medrol) and dexamethasone (Decadron) are commonly available in ALS ambulances and are appropriate for preventing or treating adrenal crisis.

EMS

EMT Training Station

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This network includes more than just ambulance services; it incorporates a range of resources such as specialized medical equipment, emergency response vehicles (ambulances, helicopters, etc.), A Comprehensive Network of Care EMS encompasses a wide array of services and personnel dedicated to delivering emergency medical care.

EMT

Peter Canning

OCTOBER 30, 2023

I am in the fly car and a BLS crew is in the ambulance. I don’t see anyone on two passes, but then I hear the BLS unit radio they’ve found him. They overdose behind the dumpster where I give them naloxone and put them in the ambulance. We’re dispatched to an overdose on Ashley Street.

Overdose

Paramedic Training Spot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In fact, in 1927, the town of Belmar was one of the the first established volunteer ambulance services in the nation. Before this motion was passed to make the standard to have at least one EMT on a truck, there were no set rules as to what training you needed to ride on an ambulance; Rather, most agencies took anybody that was willing.

EMT

Peter Canning

JANUARY 15, 2024

I was in the paramedic fly car and a BLS crew was in the ambulance. I didn’t see anyone on two passes, but then I heard the BLS unit radio that they’d found the patient. The association is that junkies are human trash. One day I was dispatched to an overdose. We were driving around looking for the victim.

Overdose

The Overrun

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We moved them onto the stretcher and brought them out to the ambulance so we could start CPR and using a BVM. I remember as we were bringing the patient out to the ambulance to do CPR, the family was standing in the doorway. They didn’t teach us THIS.

EMS

Chicago EMT Training

AUGUST 12, 2021

The EMS program even had an ambulance at one point. For a variety of reasons, the department got rid of the ambulance. We continued providing non-transport BLS to events on campus. We continued providing non-transport BLS to events on campus. It was servicing a mile radius around UIC's campus.

EMT

Peter Canning

JUNE 28, 2025

The heat wave supposedly ended two days ago, but here I am sweltering in an ambulance sitting in the parking lot behind CVS. Covering the world means we are the only ambulance available, everyone else being on emergency calls or at the hospital. A BLS unit just called for a medic for seizures, but they dispatched someone else.

BLS