dispatch

A woman whose life was considered at risk because of head pain was forced to wait more than an hour and a half for an ambulance, it has emerged. Paramedics reached the 36-year-old woman in Staffordshire in 104 minutes - well short of…

Cervical collars are applied to blunt trauma patients all the time. And most of the time, the neck is fine. It’s just those few patients that have a fracture or ligamentous injury that really need it.

Source: Spalding Today - The East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) launched a six-month pilot scheme across the region in partnership with its six fire and rescue services. For Derbyshire, Humberside, Leicestershire and Rutland,…

BANKS COUNTY, Ga. - Clayton Martin was a volunteer firefighter for the Clarksville Fire Department. At 6'8", he dominated the basketball court. The gentle giant hoped to become a pastor. He drowned before that happened. Those sent to rescue…

Seven minutes after a deputy radioed that the wind from a growing wildfire had shifted direction, dispatchers got a second call: A burn victim needed an ambulance. Five minutes later, another caller said several firefighters were trapped.

Frequentis, a global leader of NG911 and command and control center solutions is announcing the release of PROTECT™ Consolidated Dispatch at the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials Annual Conference & Expo in…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or “drones”) and Body Worn Video (BWV) will be key talking points at this year’s free-to-attend Emergency Services Show, which takes place the NEC in Birmingham on 23 and 24 September. Very much under the…

A new app called AddressIQ hopes to reduce unnecessary medical emergency calls by linking addresses to 911 dispatches. In the city of Long Beach there is a small number of people making too many 911 calls for medical assistance. This is…

A stroke may leave you incapable of identifying what's wrong, so help from others can be critical Even Canada's top doctor had trouble recognizing when he was having a stroke, a critical step in getting care to reduce the risk of death and…

FLORIDA TODAY - A Brevard County paramedic was sentenced to spend a year on probation today in connection with an incident involving a patient being dumped on to a hospital floor. The sentence was handed down today after Kenneth Hallenbeck,…