Dr. Mark Gamber, Plano Fire-Rescue’s EMS medical director, says that in some cases, such as those involving gunshot or stab wounds, backboards can do more harm than good. ( Rose Baca - Staff ...

Every four years in June a peculiar epidemic bursts into the worldview. Healthy young men, most with an elite level of physical fitness, are suddenly stricken down. The victims drop to the ground at ...

Backboards have been a central tool for Plano Fire-Rescue over the last 30 years. EMS workers use them to help lift patients off the ground, carry them to ambulances and keep them immobile during the ...

The Wichita-Sedgwick County Emergency Medical Services System is no longer keeping patients on long spineboards when transporting them to the hospital, officials say. The change was prompted by ...

For some patients, getting a ride to the hospital from Palm Beach County Fire Rescue used to be more painful than whatever put the person in the ambulance. Before Sept. 1, standard operating procedure ...

MCHD officials estimate about 350 to 400 backboards have gone missing from EMS ambulances and may be with other first responder agencies and private ambulance services. Montgomery County Hospital ...

Some solutions are just no-brainers. Take medical backboards, for example, those hard plastic boards used to stabilize patients during emergencies before the patient is lifted onto the gurney and ...