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Strengthening EMS in Malawi

International Journal of Paramedicine

Transport is typically provided by private car or taxi with less than 2% of emergency patients receiving transport by ambulance. Zomba Private Ambulances is currently the only private ambulance group operating in south-eastern Malawi. Overall confidence increased significantly after completing the course (83.3 confidence).

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Grand Blanc Township (MI) Weighs Using Police, Firefighters as EMS Responders

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This includes medical first responders and paramedics. Several officers in the township’s police department have also received some form of medical training, and each of the department’s cars contain first aid equipment such as automatic external defibrillators (AEDs). “We He noted that he is also a paramedic.

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EMS Frontline Fatigue in Focus: A Profile of Intervention Strategies Driving Change

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From Responder to Reformer Brigandi’s story begins not in a therapy room, but in the back of an ambulance. Each initiative is constructed with the understanding that first responders need support that fits into their schedules, language, and lived experience. Our trainings don’t sit on a shelf,” Brigandi explains.

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PA Fire Department, Children’s Hospital Partner for Pediatric EMS Training

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Basic First Aid and emergency response are similar regardless of the patient’s age, but most techniques — including how to evaluate patients for distress — are slightly different for children, said John Erbayri, manager of the Center for Life Support Education & Outreach at CHOP. ©2025 The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC.

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More Elderly Americans Are Choking to Death. Are These Devices the Answer?

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Precious minutes went by as first responders were unable to help him with CPR or the Heimlich maneuver. In an ambulance on the way to the hospital, the elderly man’s skin was blue, and firefighters worried he was going to die. When someone is choking, you can try perhaps the oldest form of first aid: back slaps.

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Witnesses Say Man Was Alive, Medics Didn’t Treat Him After Kansas City (MO) Family Dollar Collapse

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DiMartino wouldn’t speak about the Family Dollar case specifically because it’s an ongoing investigation, but said officers in general are trained in a variety of first aid measures and that police communicate with dispatch if they arrive first before medics to coordinate the best response.

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Bobby Sherman, Teen Idol-Turned-Medic, Dies at 81

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After the limelight moved on, Sherman became a certified medical emergency technician and instructor for the Los Angeles Police Department, teaching police recruits first aid and CPR. Sherman said that affinity blossomed when he raised his sons with his first wife, Patti Carnel. He donated his salary. “A