California Casualty

APRIL 21, 2025

When the rest of the world is winding down, you’re just gearing up—saving lives, keeping streets safe, answering calls, and making sure others get the care they need.

Paramedic

Southwest Health

APRIL 21, 2025

Every April, National Donate Life Month shines a spotlight on the incredible impact of organ, eye, and tissue donation. Through a variety of local and national events, the month is dedicated to raising awareness, encouraging Americans to register as donors, and celebrating the selfless individuals who have given others a second chance at life through donation.

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Emergency Medicine Cases

APRIL 21, 2025

In this month's EM Quick Hits podcast: Zafar Qasim & Andrew Petrosoniak on whole blood transfusion in trauma, Justin Morgenstern on calcium pre-treatment to prevent diltiazem-induced hypotension, Kiran Rikhraj on dynamic LV outflow tract obstruction, Anand Swaminathan on resuscitative thoracotomy, Andrew Tagg on uterine casts, and Jesse McLaren on scale & proportionality in occlusion MI ECG interpretation.

EMS

Southwest Health

APRIL 21, 2025

Southwest Health Behavioral Services, Southwest Health One in five adults nationwide experiences a mental health condition every year. In addition, one in 10 children lives with a severe mental or emotional disorder. Even before COVID-19, according to Mental Health America, rates of individuals dealing with mental illness and suicide were rising. Despite such rates of mental illness in families and communities, a persistent stigma around mental health continues to harm people who need the additi

Mental Health Services

JEMS

APRIL 21, 2025

EMS must move beyond burnout narratives like Honorable But Broken and embrace economic realities, as shown in A Beautiful Mind.

EMS

Southwest Health

APRIL 21, 2025

Every year, Nurses Week provides an opportunity to celebrate the incredible dedication, skill, and compassion that nurses bring to healthcare. Nurses provide hands-on care that is often the difference. They are the first to respond to patient needs, administer medications, monitor vital signs, and offer comfort to those in their care. Whether in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, or at home, nurses are present, guiding patients through both routine care and challenging medical conditions.

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JEMS

APRIL 21, 2025

A player and coach on theUmpqua Community Collegesoftball team were killed Friday after the team's van was involved in head-on crash inCoos County, Ore., theOregon State Policereported.

EMS

JEMS

APRIL 21, 2025

You're having chest pain, or you fear that your spouse is having a stroke and you're thinking of just driving to a hospital instead of calling 911. What do emergency department doctors think of that plan?

Heart Attack

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 21, 2025

Written by Pendell Meyers An elderly patient experienced a week of shortness of breath on exertion, with acute worsening including near syncope and severe fatigue. She called EMS, who recorded this ECG on the way to the hospital: What do you think? On arrival at the Emergency Department, she appeared critically ill, and had severe hypotension but was alert and oriented and able to follow commands.

ED

JEMS

APRIL 21, 2025

WithNorthern Light Inland Hospital'splan to close its emergency departmentMay 27and the hospital,June 11,Waterville'sambulances will be taking more patients toMaineGeneral Medical CenterinAugusta.

Ambulance

Peter Canning

APRIL 21, 2025

A mayor in California has proposed giving free fentanyl to his city’s homeless to kill them off. California mayor wants to give homeless people ‘all the fentanyl they want’: ‘Need to purge these people’ “Quite frankly, I wish that the president would give us a purge. Because we do need to purge these people,” Lancaster Mayor R.

NARCAN

JEMS

APRIL 21, 2025

Town officials will start gathering information needed for a proposed townwide ambulance district.

Ambulance

First 10 EM

APRIL 21, 2025

I took a few months off. (Well, not so much off, but as stuck in other EBM rabbit holes.) I am sure some were happy for the empty inbox, but if you enjoy nerdy conversation about subpar medical research, this is your luck day. Yeah, I guess you could give calcium. Or you could just […] The post Research Roundup for April 2025 appeared first on First10EM.

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JEMS

APRIL 21, 2025

An Israeli investigation into thekillings of 15 Palestinian medics last month in Gazaby Israeli forces said Sunday it found a chain of professional failures and a deputy commander has been fired.

Ambulance

EMDocs

APRIL 21, 2025

Welcome to the emDOCs Videocast please subscribe to our YouTube channel. These videos will cover post summaries, take homes on clinical condition, and EBM/guideline literature updates. Today we focus on providing a prescription for patients with asymptomatic hypertension (HTN) from the ED setting. Article #1: Todd BR, Xing Y, Zhao L, et al. Antihypertensive prescription is associated with improved 30-day outcomes for discharged hypertensive emergency department patients.

Emergency Department