Paramedic

Belal Dabour is a recently graduated doctor from Gaza, Palestine. He blogs at belalmd.wordpress.com Thursday night, 17 July, was the heaviest yet since Israel’s bombardment of Gaza began almost two weeks ago. Dozens of people arrived to…

(The Spectator - Mary Wakefield) - Tom leant back against the bathroom wall, his face streaked with blood from the nosebleed, eyes half shut like an owl. ‘I’m passing out,’ he said. Then his legs gave way and he slumped to the floor. ‘Tom?…

Ambulex is the UK exhibition exclusively targeting ambulances, ambulance support, accessible and community vehicles and related equipment. It attracts visitors from the public, private and volunteer transport fleet manager sectors, senior…

(BELFAST TELEGRAPH) - Paramedics costing over £40,000 each to be trained in Northern Ireland are being forced to leave the Northern Ireland as they are unable to find a permanent job, it has been claimed. It comes as the Northern Ireland…

In conjunction with the Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010, Fortis Healthcare made the decision to train and deploy dedicated ambulance professionals as staff on its ambulances. These EMTs were intended to provide the highest quality of…

(FIREFIGHTER STORY) - One of the questions we get quite often is why we send "big red" on medical calls. After all, isn't that what ambulances are for? Isn't that a waste of fuel/time/resources for a simple medical call?Before I answer…

Maybe the Is this going to be on the test? people are in charge. Is this a case of bad reporting, is Brownsville, TX trying to find a way to force people out of the fire department, is Brownsville, TX trying to suggest that a 48…

Shira A. Schlesinger, MD, MPH Kristi L. Koenig, MD, FACEP, FIFEM University of California, Irvine Center for Disaster Medical Sciences Community Paramedicine Comes to California Community Paramedicine engages pre-hospital providers to make…

Scoop Exl is one of Ferno’s most important products. An exceptional stretcher able to hold the patient safely in a variety of situations and above all capable of providing absolute comfort thanks to its scoop shape, which adapts…

Being a paramedic in the US is a proper job, and so anyone working in emergency rescue in the United States is always a paid professional. In Italy, however, we all know that the situation is slightly different, as only very few members of…