Approach the patient with an intentional primary and secondary survey to avoid letting painful and gruesome wounds distract ...

Motivation: Upon arrival on the scene, EMT-B's sometimes mistake dramatic fractures for life threatening injuries. The intent of this drill is to remind rescuers that extremity trauma rarely causes a ...

From rapid trauma assessments to spinal motion restriction, prehospital trauma care is evolving with evidence-based protocols and structured training tools. Updated guidelines help EMS teams make ...

I love to make things easy to remember and repeat, because our job requires us to remember more than we have the ability to. We all learned that the ABC acronym (airway, breathing, circulation) is the ...

CHICAGO — Injured patients were evaluated and received medical imaging tests 30% faster after an innovative performance improvement project was enacted at one hospital. "Being able to quickly identify ...