Patient assessment is the process an EMT or paramedic follows to evaluate an injured or ill patient. The process includes a scene size-up, which is the identification and mitigation of risks ...

“Israel and the United States do not deserve to exist anymore,” Bryan Antolos, 30, a member of EMS Battalion 13 in ... Antolos encountered a Jewish patient wearing a kippah or Magen David?” ...

An emergency medical technician in Cliffside Park was charged Thursday with destroying the medical records of multiple patients over a three-month period last year, authorities said. Darren Jacobs ...

The amount of time spent in EMT class dedicated to the knowledge and skills needed to patient assessment clearly indicates the importance placed on the EMT having the ability to competently ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - As flu cases continue to spike in Jefferson County, hospitals are dealing with an influx of patients coming to emergency rooms for treatments that aren’t considered ...

A 20-year-old EMT from Yonkers has been charged with purposely destroying patient care medical records while working for a Bergen County ambulance service, authorities said. Darren E. Jacobs, 20, was ...

CHEO has eliminated a team of “patient experience” workers whose jobs were to help make long waits in the emergency department more bearable by offering kindness, juice and support to patients ...

It's because the staff there have about three or four empty spaces — on a good day — to get those patients out of the waiting room and into a treatment bed for assessment," he said.

A doctor prescribes a mixture of lethal medication. The patient must have six months or less to live, be of sound mind and must administer it themselves. The procedure is different than euthanasia ...

The fear is that fewer psychiatrists and mental health resources will shift the burden, with emergency departments particularly at risk of seeing an influx of patients. It's expected that 181 ...