American Medical Response, Inc. (AMR) is among the nation's leading providers of ambulance services. Maintaining a fleet of some 4,000 vehicles and 265 site facilities, AMR operates in 35 states, providing basic transport as well as more specialized services, including critical care transport (i...
At the World Trade Center, 2,763 died after the two planes slammed into the twin towers. That figure includes 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers who were struggling to complete an evacuation of the buildings and save the offi...
Israeli targets have also expanded toelite Syrian army units, focusing on facilities allegedly involved in weapons storage, manufacturing, and training, such as the 75th Brigade of the First Division in Jabal al-Mana near Damascus, the 106th Brigade of the Republican Guard, and the Fifth Division...
Established 25 years ago by Dr. Paul Zoll, Professor Emeritus of Havard Medical School, ZOLL Medical has continually made significant contributions in the field resuscitation.
Once the paramedics had – with considerable difficulty – got an IV line into me, they gave me fluids and drugs and I soon started feeling a little better. Next step was the emergency department, where I went straight to one of the resuscitation rooms and got very quick attention! I ...
When the paramedics got there, Eddie didn't have a pulse. He was taken to the hospital and placed on a respirator for 2 days. Eddie said that his second overdose came two months later when they were in El Paso for the Guerrero family Christmas...
On 28 May 1996, Gahan overdosed on a speedball at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles, which resulted in his heart stopping for two minutes until he was revived by paramedics. He said of the experience, "All I saw and all I felt at first was complete darkness. I've never been in...
There are about twelve-hundred people per physician, but nurses and paramedics often serve as primary care professionals, especially in remote settlements. "Bush medicine" (herbal treatments) is still found, but its popularity is declining.
Villages typically have clinics staffed by resident nurses and midwife-paramedics. Regular visits by nonresident dentists, pediatricians, general practitioners, and obstetrician-gynecologists before 1989 provided free health care for all citizens, with nominal charges for prescriptions. After 1989, socialized...
Dazed and confused, I came home where I collapsed and I can only tell you what I heard from the man who saved my life, Lewis Rach, that I had passed out, began spitting blood out of my mouth, and when the paramedics arrived,...