Tag Archives: ambulances

The World-Famous Resuscitations R Us Academy has completed its analysis of the 2014 AHA guidelines changes and has given an exclusive sneak-peak to Call The Cops.

Articles critical of police patrol operations have pointed out that ambulances don’t patrol looking for sick people. EMS administrators see this as an opportunity to practice pro-active medicine and provide some revenue.

The federal government has issued a cease and desist order to all state department of health agencies ordering all EMS agencies to stop using their ambulances. Any ambulance made under the current US standards the Obama administration is claiming has ...

The Supreme Court’s landmark decision Friday on SSM has already started to ripple through the EMS community. The 5-4 majority decision that SSM is Constitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment drew widespread praise from EMS administrators

Most ambulances can be classified as ALS or BLS units. Soon a new acronym might become common to hear, NET for Non-Emergency health care Transport. BLS or Basic Life support are ambulances staffed mostly by EMTs. These ambulances have oxygen, ...

Indiana passed a religious freedom restoration act this week. The allows business to refuse service to gay people over religious feeling about homosexuality. The law does not allow EMS to refuse to respond to calls, but a loop hole allows individual medic to refuse services. In response now dispatchers have to ask if the patient is gay.

What seemed like a good public relations idea for one EMS provider has turned into a legal nightmare. Dolor EMS created an EMS uniform shirt with pain level faces screen printed to the chest. Within one week the EMS director has been hit with lawsuits.

The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced last Monday that they are changing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPPA to an as yet undisclosed name but is willing to confirm the acronym will be HIPPA.

EMT Eric Stercus decided to lose some weight for New Years. After talking to friends and co-workers he decided to add a high fiber body detox cleanse to his weight loss regime. Unfortunately the high fiber detox made bowl movements too easy and multiple pant filling accidents have taken place.

President Obama announced a new program to give two years of schooling at Community Colleges to anyone willing to "Work for it". In the wake of this announcement it has been decided that all Paramedics will be required to obtain Associate of Science (AS) Degree.