Latest Ambulance Stories

TULSA, Okla., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- When faced with a medical crisis, having the ability or presence of mind to personally communicate critical health information to emergency response teams may not be possible. With invisibleBracelet.org (iB), a virtual medical ID, consumers may have their vital health information readily available to emergency medical service (EMS) providers through the new ICE Public Profile and Enhanced Medic Network, helping save crucial time. The new iB Web...

CONKLIN, N.Y., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Longtime golf partners Ray Gee and Bill Gorman have never known their leisurely Friday night golf league to hold quite so much drama. But, on August 13th, the 8th hole of Conklin Players Club in Conklin, NY, became the scene of a lifesaving rescue when Gee collapsed from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA). The quick thinking of Gorman and two other league golfers, along with access to a HeartSine samaritan® Automated External Defibrillator (AED) at the...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- CyberTech, the world's fastest-growing and 3rd largest call recording provider, is introducing its new incident replay application for the public safety market called CyberTech IRIS (Incident Replay and Investigation System) at this year's APCO show on August 2-3 in Houston, Texas. IRIS empowers emergency centers with a single, integrated view of an entire incident by combining all voice, data and multimedia communications and evidence onto one...

WASHINGTON, June 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Patients with Medicare or Medicaid, the uninsured, the elderly and the critically ill are the heaviest users of ambulances for transport to the emergency department, making them most vulnerable during periods of ambulance diversion. The results of a study of more than 30,000 patients taken to emergency departments by ambulance were published online Friday in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("At-Risk Populations and the Critically Ill Rely...

BELOEIL, QC, June 9 /PRNewswire/ - To view this Social Media Release, please enter the following address in your web browser. http://smr.newswire.ca/en/demers-ambulances/a-first-in-the-industry-demers-green-ambulance /NOTE TO PHOTO EDITORS: The photo accompanying this social media release is also available at http://photos.newswire.ca. Images are free to accredited members of the media/ SOURCE Demers-Ambulances inc.

Having a Primary Care Physician does not Affect number of Times People Seek Emergency Care WASHINGTON, May 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- One in five people visited the emergency department in 2007, according to a new data brief issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report "Emergency Department Visitors and Visits: Who Used the Emergency Room in 2007?" is much less comprehensive than previous annual reports, and Dr. Angela Gardner, president of the American...

People who realize that stroke symptoms are occurring in a family member or friend still may not call 9-1-1 "” delaying vital treatment, according to research published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association."This study emphasizes the critical roles that symptom recognition and the calling of 9-1-1 have in reducing delays in hospital arrival to receive urgent stroke treatment," said Chris Fussman, M.S., lead author of the study and an epidemiologist with the Michigan...

Korean doctors are suggesting that speeding ambulances might do more harm than good to patients receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The researchers monitored how well EMTs performed as the ambulance picked up speed by using a computerized mannequin called Resusci Anne. The depth and rate of chest compressions both increased, which made researchers worry that EMTs tended to spend less time doing CPR at high velocities. The exact reasons for the added hands-off time are not...

ROCKVILLE, Md., May 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Multiple data sources, including scientific survey data, medical studies and analyses of data in regions that have imposed ambulance fees, indicate that ambulance fees will discourage calls to emergency services for help, risking the health and safety of those experiencing medical emergencies. More specifically, A paper released on May 6, 2010 by the Heart Foundation of Australia - whose emergency medical system is similar to that in the...

Research: Community falls prevention for people who call an emergency ambulance after a fall: Randomized controlled trialA community based falls prevention service reduced the rate of falls among older people by 55%, finds a study published on bmj.com today.The service also led to increased levels of activities of daily living and reduced fear of falling.Falls are a common and serious problem in older people. Many people who fall call an emergency ambulance, but are not transported to...