Pickup Hits Amish Buggy in Michigan Killing Three Kids
ALGANSEE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A third child who was in an Amish horse-drawn carriage that was struck by a drunken driver in southern Michigan has died, authorities said Sunday. Two children, ages 6 and 2, died at the scene of Friday evening's crash. A 4-year-old later died at a hospital, and another young child and a woman who were in the carriage remained hospitalized with serious injuries, State Trooper Seth Reed told the Detroit Free Press . The pickup truck's driver, 21-year-old Tyler Frye, of Angola, Indiana, faces three counts of driving while intoxicated causing death and two counts of driving while intoxic...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - June 10, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care Operations Source Type: news

Dozens of Utah Public Pool Swimmers Sickened by Chlorine Gas
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (AP) — Chlorine gas has sickened dozens of swimmers at a Utah public pool in what police called a freak accident on Tuesday. A pump malfunctioned and forced too much chlorine out of a jet at Pleasant Grove Veterans Memorial Pool about 36 miles (58 kilometers) south of Salt Lake City, Pleasant Grove Police Capt. Britt Smith said. About 50 people, mostly children, were sickened and ambulances took more than 20 people to hospitals, Smith said. The chlorine caused people to cough, vomit and bleed from their noses, he said. Martha Vickers said she grabbed her children and ran when the gas enveloped them. ...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - June 5, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care Mass Casualty Incidents Source Type: news

Remote Helicopter Crash and Medical Response in the Himalayas
On Sept. 9, 2018, in Samagaun in the Gorkha district of the Himalayan nation Nepal, an Altitude Air 9N-ALS Airbus Ecureuil (AS350 B3e) H125 helicopter was on its return flight with an expected time of arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu—the capitol of Nepal—at about 8:18 a.m. The chopper had taken off from Gorkha at 7:40 a.m. and had lost its contact with the tower at around 8:00 a.m. The Nepal Mediciti Hospital helicopter EMS (HEMS) team received a call from the Shree air helicopter company and was informed to stand by for medical rescue to be sent to the crash site. It takes the Mediciti...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - June 4, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Sanjaya  Karki, MD, MBBS Tags: Rescue & Vehicle Extrication Trauma International Exclusive Articles Patient Care Source Type: news

Shootings Strain Macon, GA EMS
MACON, Ga. (13WMAZ) - Sheriff David Davis called Saturday's collection of shootings 'disaster and mayhem.' A block party turned deadly, left at least six people with gunshot wounds and one man dead. The victim that died, 22-year old Deroderick Ridley, was one of two victims taken to the hospital by something other than an ambulance. "You can't ever figure that this is going to happen. It happens once, in a great period of time, when all of the EMS resources are taxed," Davis said. Macon is divided into two 911 zones to determine which emergency medical agency responds: Navicent Health or Community Ambulance. Satu...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - June 4, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care Operations Source Type: news

San Francisco Considers Forced Treatment for Mentally Ill Addicts
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco supervisors were expected to consider a proposal Tuesday that could force drug addicts with serious mental illnesses into treatment. Mayor London Breed and other supporters of the proposal say the move — known as conservatorship — is necessary to help addicts who are often homeless and suffering from a mental illness, making them a danger to themselves. They say the number of people who could be forced into treatment is small, likely fewer than 50. Critics call the measure a violation of civil rights that runs against the principles of the liberal city. They also say San Francisco l...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - June 4, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care Administration and Leadership Source Type: news