PTSD is an official DSM-5 diagnosis and is rooted in exposure to threatened or actual death or serious injury. EMS clinicians may develop PTSD after violent calls, major incidents, or graphic trauma.

Thurston County has made a groundbreaking advancement in emergency medical services by becoming the first in the United ...

Some have argued that, on a neurobiological level, the brain changes in childhood due to repeated exposures to trauma ...

Pittsburgh is buying new, high-tech mannequins that will be used by EMS personnel for training. James Dlutowski, the training crew chief for the city’s EMS, said the high-fidelity mannequins will ...

The American Red Cross donor center in D.C. is named for a famous Washingtonian, Dr. Charles Drew who pioneered methods for long term storage of blood plasma and was the first director of the American ...

Those are the first words Keedysville resident Scott Spitnale said come to mind when he thinks of his wife, Laura, and all the emergency workers, from the Washington County 911 call center to the ...

Arlington’s EMS can now provide pre-hospital whole blood to patients who have suffered blood loss. Just about 300 of the nation’s 23,000 EMS agencies carry whole blood. Medical City Arlington ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - MetroHealth is teaming up with Cleveland EMS to help save more lives by training paramedics to give whole blood transfusions at trauma scenes using low titer O positive blood.

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 ...

LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — Michelle Houck, the trauma outreach coordinator at Trident Health, was named Emergency Nurse of the Year by the South Carolina EMS Association. Trident Health announced on ...

(TNS) — Arlington’s first responders can now provide whole blood to trauma victims, a significant upgrade in the standard of care for patients who have suffered blood loss. Whole blood is blood from a ...