Utah Girl Dies After Being Accidentally Stuck by Golf Ball
OREM, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a 6-year-old Utah girl has died after her father accidentally hit her with a golf ball.
Police say the ball struck the girl in the back of the head on Monday morning, while the father and daughter were golfing at Sleepy Ridge Golf Course in Orem.
The ball collided with the base of her neck. Lt. Trent Colledge with the Orem Police Department says she was flown to a hospital in Salt Lake City in critical condition. She died from her injuries later that evening.
Colledge said police are investigating but are not planning to pursue charges because it appears to have been a tragic accident.
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Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 17, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care AP News Tag Source Type: news
Two Dead, Officer and Woman Wounded in Shooting at Baltimore Clinic
BALTIMORE (AP) — Two people are dead and a police sergeant and a woman are injured following a shooting at a methadone clinic in Baltimore, police said Monday.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said at a news conference that the sergeant is in stable condition and had gone into surgery.
Harrison said the suspect who fired at the sergeant is dead as well as another person who was found inside the clinic. The woman who was injured is expected to survive.
Harrison said the shooting was reported shortly after 7 a.m. and was captured on video by the body cameras of the officers who responded to the clinic.
Harris...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 15, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care AP News Tag Source Type: news
Ohio Hospital Fires 23 in Case of Excessive Doses, Deaths
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio hospital system where excessive painkiller doses were given to dozens of patients who died fired 23 nurses, pharmacists and managers Thursday and said it is changing leadership, a sign that professional fallout from the scandal has expanded far beyond the intensive care doctor accused of ordering the drugs.
The announcement by the Columbus-area Mount Carmel Health System comes five weeks after that doctor, William Husel, pleaded not guilty to murder charges in 25 of the deaths, marking one of the biggest cases of its kind against an American health care professional.
The newly fired employe...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 12, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care AP News Tag Administration and Leadership Source Type: news
Two Dead, Two Hurt in California Freeway Bridge Jump
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Authorities say two teenagers were killed and two critically injured when they jumped off a 75-foot freeway bridge after a crash in California.
The California Highway Patrol says a car spun out and crashed into a bridge guardrail on State Route 56 in Carmel Valley at about 11 p.m. Tuesday.
The CHP says six people left the stalled car, possibly out of fear that oncoming cars might hit it.
Sgt. Brent Lowry says four of the six ran across the road and jumped what they may have thought was a wall.
It was the side of the bridge.
An 18-year-old man and a younger male teen were killed. Two girls, ages 14 and 15...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 12, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Trauma News Patient Care AP News Tag Source Type: news
Report: New Protocol in Chicago After Medics Failed to Treat Gunshot Victim
The Chicago Fire Department has enacted new protocols after paramedics failed to treat a gunshot victim for an hour as he lay dying in the street last year, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Although an investigation into that incident is not complete, the department has reportedly changed the way paramedics assess shooting victims and anyone else injured.
All patients are now placed on a heart monitors to check for signs of life, Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford told reporters. The monitors will be placed on all patients, unless they have suffered extreme trauma.
The new procedure is "for ...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 11, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Trauma News Patient Care Source Type: news
Fiery Accident Injures Nine in California
911 Vide oNews - National City, Accodent July 1, 2019
INCIDENT DATE/TIME: 7-1-19 6:50 pm
LOCATION: NB I-5 near Civic Center Dr
CITY: National City
DETAILS:
Witnesses told the CHP that the driver of the silver truck was stalled in the #1 lane, when the SUV hit it and two other cars slammed into the SUV, causing a 4 car crash. 3 of the vehicles caught on fire.
There were 9 injuries with 7 of them considered to be major injuries. Several people were burned including a child. The freeway was closed for a time, but the #4 lane has been opened.
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Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 11, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News News Videos Patient Care Operations Source Type: news
Four Dead in Cleveland Shooting and Fire
CLEVELAND (AP) — Two neighbors died from gunshots while two children found dead in one of the victim's home died from smoke inhalation from a fire set in the house, a coroner said Wednesday.
Police later said they had taken a man into custody and planned to reveal more about aggravated murder charges they plan to file during a news conference on Thursday.
The man's identity wasn't released and few other details have been revealed about the Tuesday morning discovery of the bodies. Relatives said the two neighbors, a man and a woman, didn't really know each other.
Officers first found David Cousin Jr. shot to death in a va...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 11, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care AP News Tag Source Type: news
Three Stabbed in Random Attack in Downtown Seattle
SEATTLE (AP) — Three people were stabbed at random in downtown Seattle, and a suspect is in custody, authorities said.
Seattle Police responded to a call about 10 a.m. Tuesday. Police said in a blotter post that a 79-year-old man who was stabbed in the neck and a 77-year-old man who was stabbed in the back were taken to Harborview Medical Center. Hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg, who updated the older man's age, said at 5 p.m. Tuesday that he was in serious condition while the other man was satisfactory.
Another man was stabbed in the forearm and treated at the scene, police said.
Christopher Morisette, 29, was arrested ...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 11, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care AP News Tag Source Type: news
Six Injured, Three Critically, in Minneapolis Bus Stop Crash
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities are investigating why and how a van driver slammed into a crowded bus stop shelter in north Minneapolis on Tuesday, injuring at least six people, including three critically.
The crash happened at a busy intersection at about 9:30 a.m. Metro Transit spokesman Howie Padilla said the driver, an 83-year-old man, hit the side mirror of a bus that had stopped to unload passengers, then backed up, drove forward and hit the mirror again before driving around the corner and crashing into the shelter.
"We don't know why that happened. We would love to know that. We will know that. It is just goi...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 10, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Mass Casualty Incidents Patient Care AP News Tag Source Type: news
Video: Spinal Motion Restriction
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Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 9, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Exclusive Articles Training Videos Patient Care Source Type: news
American Gored in Neck During Running of the Bulls in Pamplona
PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — The desire to have a selfie as a souvenir from running with the bulls in Spain turned into a near-death experience an American lawyer says he'll never forget.
A charging bull ran over and gored San Francisco resident Jaime Alvarez in the neck during the first run of this year's San Fermin festival in Pamplona, an event immortalized by writer Ernest Hemingway nearly a century ago.
"The joy and the excitement of being in the bullring quickly turned into a scare, into real fear for my life," Alvarez, 46, said Monday at a regional hospital where he was recovering from surgery.
Doctors told Al...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 9, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: International Trauma News AP News Tag Source Type: news
Four-Year Old Struck by Lifeguard Truck on California Beach
CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a lifeguard truck has run over a 4-year-old girl on a San Diego-area beach.
It happened at about 6:15 p.m. Monday in Coronado.
There's no immediate word on the girl's condition.
City Fire Chief Jim Lydon tells the San Diego Union-Tribune that lifeguards were patrolling in a pickup truck that maneuvered around a berm near Dog Beach.
Lydon says the truck came around the back of the berm and hit a girl crouched in the sand that the lifeguards hadn't seen.
Lydon says the truck went over the top of the girl with both tires on the driver's side.
Lifeguards and then paramedics provided ai...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 9, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Ambulances & Vehicle Ops Patient Care AP News Tag Source Type: news
Podcast: The National Registry of EMTs: Past, Present, and Future
The National Registry of EMTs will celebrate its 50th year as the nation's EMS Certification Organization, protecting the public and advancing the EMS profession. In the July 2019 edition of the "Firemedically Speaking" podcast, JEMS Executive Editor Mike McEvoy talks with Exective Director Bill Seifarth about what the National Registry is, what it is not (including some common misperceptions), the ways the registry has evolved, and the current project underway to build a better future by strenghthening the registry's core.
Listen in the player above.
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Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 8, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mike McEvoy, PhD, NRP, RN, CCRN Tags: Exclusive Articles Patient Care Source Type: news
Patient Lifting and Moving: Whose Job Is It?
This article demonstrated that the rate of musculoskeletal injury associated with lifting and moving patients is extremely high among prehospital health care providers.
This is true despite the fact that OSHA has created standards dedicated to safe patient handling.17 The shortcomings of the presented curricula stem from the lack of direct application to prehospital providers, leading to unnecessarily high and unacceptable rates of provider injury.
It was understood from the inception of the automobile that car crashes kill and severely injure people. Yet it was not until 1966 that the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Sa...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 8, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Colin Zimmerman BS, NRP Tags: Exclusive Articles Patient Care Source Type: news
New Jersey Authorizes Paramedics to Carry Buprenorphine
TRENTON (Cape May County Herald) - The State Health Commissioner June 24 authorized paramedics to carry buprenorphine to treat acute withdrawal symptoms after patients have been revived from an opioid overdose with Naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug.
According to a release, Commissioner Dr. Shereef Elnahal signed an Executive Directive on that date allowing the medical directors of New Jersey’s 21 Mobile Intensive Care Unit (MICU) programs to authorize paramedics to carry buprenorphine, an oral medication used to mitigate what can be severe symptoms of opioid withdrawal after a Naloxone reversal.
The MICU progra...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - July 3, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care Administration and Leadership Source Type: news
