KERN COUNTY, Calif. — The new Medic Squad 42 apparatus was put into service Wednesday, replacing a temporary vehicle to serve an area of east Bakersfield that gets more than 5,000 emergency calls ...
In the emergency medical service, the well-known five stages of grief may have been touched upon in training, but are not often elaborated on or discussed further. The five stages of grief are ...
An unannounced EMS supervisor’s visit could mean an atta-boy or a social visit, but more often than not, it means that there was a call worth discussing and a simple phone call wouldn’t suffice.
When Rob DeMeo became a paramedic in 2003, the last thing he was concerned about was writing a patient care report (PCR). “We had maybe one hour on documentation in class,” the New York native ...