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

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The training for some 500 paramedics and emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, covers how to recognize signs that a child’s health is rapidly declining, medication protocol, techniques for starting an IV on smaller bodies with difficult-to-find veins, and CPR for children.

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

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Dr. Nathan Charlton, a University of Virginia professor of emergency medicine who advises the American Red Cross on first aid, said there is limited evidence for the products and that the Red Cross is still evaluating them. When someone is choking, you can try perhaps the oldest form of first aid: back slaps.

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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

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From the President’s Desk: HEMS in Cork

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Helicopter EMS in Cork: a paramedicine perspective. Irish Journal of Paramedicine. The recent discussions regarding the crew composition of the proposed Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) in Cork require comment from paramedicine. Reproduced from Knox, S. link] under a CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Scooter-Vehicle Crash in St. Paul (MN) Leaves 14-Year-Old Dead, 13-Year-Old Critically Injured

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Five Injured, Three Critical, After Horrific Head-On Crash in Gloucester (MA) Plane Crash in Northeast Ohio Kills Six People, Reports Say Interstate 35 Reopens in Kansas City (MO) After Crash Leaves Pedestrians in Critical Condition Officers provided first aid and St. The 14-year-old boy was pronounced dead at the hospital.