14 The EMS is two-tiered, with ALS and intensive care paramedics responding to medical emergencies. Non-transport decisions are made by paramedics on-scene following patient assessment. Senior ...

Design A cross-sectional assessment with retest after 1 week. Setting A web-based survey with patients suffering from pain. Methods In a three-step approach, we reduced the initially collected number ...

Background Understanding patient experiences is crucial to evaluating care quality in EDs. However, while previous reviews describe the determinants of ED patient experiences (ie, factors that ...

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 ...

The best Electronic Health Records software makes it simple and easy to manage patient care in a health practice. Additionally, EHR software can provide a portal for direct communications with ...

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 ...

For the first time outside of pregnancy, I — an emergency doctor — experienced what it feels like to be a patient. It was not, to put it mildly, a pleasant experience. I sought treatment when I was ...

While A&E departments would still handle life-threatening and emergency cases, one way to reduce the burden on hospitals would be to increase the number of patients seen in the community.

“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?” ...

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.