The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), working with the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC), has issued a revised Health and Wellness Guide for the Volunteer Fire and Emergency Services.
"This free training video is a must-watch for all first responders," says Tim Butters, who chairs IAFC's Hazardous Materials Committee and is assistant chief of the Fairfax, Va., Fire Department. The city's police and fire departments placed this new 30-foot Mobile Communications/Command Unit in service this month.
CDC's Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER) has released its inaugural report on CDC activities in public health emergency preparedness, titled Public Health Preparedness: Strengthening CDC's Emergency Response.
A recent spate of crashes brought this industry's safety into focus once again. The four-day hearing that began yesterday in Washington, D.C., is examining the industry's performance, risks, oversight, funding structures, and record. This Ben Saladino photo shows a helicopter operated by CareFlite, which is a party to the hearing.
When a confined space disaster strikes, an urban search and rescue team responds. Vital to its success is its medical personnel's approach.
Training citizens in CPR and letting EMS personnel use AEDs in the field without physicians' online oversight improved response time and increased bystander-initiated CPR, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The event, from 11 a.m. to noon Central, opens the series with Editor Joel Haight participating and a focus on successful management of safety engineering work.
This settlement is part of a larger federal investigation of the body armor industry's use of Zylon fabric.
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Richard Besser, who headed CDC's public health emergency preparedness and response functions, has been named acting director of the agency in place of Dr. Julie Gerberding.
Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind., introduced the bill with colleagues from West Virginia and Texas. NMA says it would accelerate development of training and rescue capabilities.
This information should help communities understand and utilize the scheme, which is an algorithm used by about 800,000 EMS personnel nationwide to decide the most appropriate destination for injured patients.
Department of Homeland Security has accepted PNNL to test and evaluate commercially available radiation detectors through its new GRaDER program -- Graduated Radiation and Nuclear Detector Evaluation and Reporting. PNNL is the first U.S. laboratory to be accepted to play this role.
A recent survey by Medical College of Wisconsin researchers of more than 1,800 patients seen in the Froedtert Hospital Emergency Department revealed that Metro Milwaukee residents may not personally be as well prepared for disasters as the rest of the country.
Only 14 percent of drivers and front-seat occupants in the crashes were protected by both a seat belt and an air bag. The study showed that combination is associated with a lower risk of a spine fracture.
Key revisions include vehicle crash damage criteria that can help determine which patients may require care at a trauma center.
The proposed revisions would allow certain machine-based fit tests to be conducted more quickly and increase the required score for passing them.
To the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Business Civic Leadership Center, better preparedness is a way to reduce and perhaps minimize damaging business interruptions.
An international pilot study involving the Toronto General Hospital (TGH), a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, and other hospitals from around the world, has found that using a Surgical Patient Safety Checklist significantly reduces surgical complications and mortality.
This drawing, featured in the FHWA newsletter and credited to MnDOT, depicts the new St. Anthony's Falls Bridge in Minneapolis.
Public transportation to all inaugural events is encouraged as many streets in and around the Capitol and the Mall area and bridges into/out of the city will be closed to private automobiles for much of the day. Metrorail will operate rush-hour service for 17 consecutive hours on Jan. 20, from 4 a.m. to 9 p.m., and will operate on a non-rush hour schedule for two extra hours until 2 a.m.