Patient Handling
The patient handling topic contains the latest news, information, education and training tips for EMTs and paramedics related to lifting and moving patients.
If children aren鈥檛 properly restrained in the back of your ambulance, it puts everyone at risk
If you鈥檙e embracing power devices to help move patients, don鈥檛 skip the first step
How to use the lost art of auscultatory percussion to evaluate suspected long bone fractures
San Diego and Chula Vista FFs worked to extricate the driver after his truck went off a freeway ramp and overturned
Officials say the woman was struck by a vehicle and thrown into the path of the Cruise vehicle that ran over her
An employee leaving the Flint Processing Center in Swartz Creek hit workers blocking a driveway
Travis Muller was cleaning out the bin when he became caught in the power sweep auger
One patient in the Spafford explosion was trapped inside by the debris of the explosion
Portland firefighters faced a car pinned partially underneath a semi in a jack-knife collision
The Franklinville man lost his balance and fell onto a London-style gate, with decorative spikes, being used to section off a room
The Ogdensburg International Airport was the location for training a simulated plane crash and fire
An attorney for one of the Aurora officers said, 鈥淢r. McClain died because Paramedic Cooper injected him with 1.7, 1.8 times the ketamine for someone his weight and size.鈥�
Patients from the Bedford Park event were transported to several area hospitals
Family members say the Medway EMT forced the patient in respiratory distress to walk an 鈥渦nreasonable distance鈥� to the ambulance before the fall
The Department of Health Services said falls are 18% of ambulance runs in 2022
When New Ellenton firefighters found Maria Duthie, she had a faint pulse, was barely breathing and was blue
A construction worker was trapped in his excavator and suffered trauma to his head, chest and arms
Fresno authorities say patients were transported to three different hospitals
11 patients were transported to a hospital after a Delta flight hit severe turbulance
Orange Beach Fire Rescue Chief Jeff Smith said the umbrella went completely through the leg and needed to be cut for stabilization
BWC footage captures medic telling officers not to lay the suspect facedown in a fatal in-custody investigation
A driver is dead after his car collided with a school bus on I-90 near Wells
Kansas City crews moved 117 individuals to nine facilities around the city
Two people were injured when a section of a Willowick apartment building parking garage collapsed
First responders found the workers trapped under a fallen wall at the site in Bedford
EMS personnel in German Township transported at least 13 patients to hospitals
Fire Chief Kristin M. Crowley said the first firefighters to arrive at Adventist Health White Memorial Hospital faced a total blackout
After triage, patients were transported to hospitals in Plantation and Fort Lauderdale
A paramedic fell while trying to stop the patient from getting out of the moving ambulance
Maryland State Police Trooper 5 conducted two hoist rescues of injured hikers
Two people were injured when their vehicle went into the James River before a bridge-tunnel
Grand Canyon National Park鈥檚 Search and Rescue team had to set up a rope rescue since a helicopter rescue was not feasible
First responders in fire and police boats, along with the U.S. Coast Guard, responded to a crash off Long Island鈥檚 south shore
