When buildings, land, apparatus, equipment and other assets are included as part of EMS departments, the agencies are multimillion-dollar organizations. Thus, they are businesses, and they must be ...

The paramedics did almost everything right. They responded to a call for an unconscious man slumped on a bus bench. He was barely breathing. His pupils were pinpoint. The signs pointed to a narcotics ...

For decades, EMS reimbursement has depended on moving the ambulance. TIP flips that model, rewarding clinical judgment over mileage — if payers, protocols and QA can keep up.

You arrive at the scene to find a patient struggling to breathe. They can’t speak clearly, no family is present, and no one knows their medical history. What medications are they on? Do they have life ...

Severely injured patients are more likely to survive if they are initially treated by an emergency medical services (EMS) clinician who sees a high number of trauma patients, rather than a clinician ...

The arguments for integrating EMS data and making it available through the electronic medical record (EMR) system include improving continuity of care, supporting medical decision making (MDM), and ...