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 ...
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 ...
Dr. Mark Gamber, Plano Fire-Rescue department's EMS medical director, poses for a portrait with one of the department's backboards at the Plano Fire Department Station 12 in Plano. The Plano ...
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 ...
You’ve seen it in the movies and on TV: Someone hurt in a car wreck is strapped to a rigid backboard and rushed to the hospital by ambulance or aboard a rescue helicopter. That’s how firefighters, ...
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 ...
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