by dtbAdmin | Apr 15, 2011 | Blog, Medical/EMS
It’s tax day! Are you suffering? Feeling the need to call 911? Dianna Benson, Redwood’s resident EMS expert, is back for her monthly post. Today, types of EMS calls… in case you’re feeling the need for a little 911 service. But more importantly, for accurate...
by dtbAdmin | Mar 9, 2011 | Blog, Medical/EMS
Our resident EMS expert Dianna Benson is back discussing EMS and Dispatch for those pre-hospital scenes. Our station buzzer and waist-radios go off, dispatching us to a scene of an incident (if we’re not at our station at that moment, obviously we’d only hear our...
by dtbAdmin | Feb 9, 2011 | Blog, Medical/EMS
Dianna Benson is back posting about triage in the EMS setting. Last Wednesday, I covered triage in the hospital setting. Today, will be a great opportunity to test your EMS triage skills in the comments section. I’m taking the test. How about you? Dianna will be...
by dtbAdmin | Jan 23, 2011 | Blog, Medical/EMS
Mart asks: My MC is 16 yrs old. She gets hit by a truck. She has road rash. Right leg turned black and blue. Shin welled up. But other than feeling like she literally was hit by a truck, she is okay….she thinks. What would most likely occur after an incident like...
by dtbAdmin | Jan 7, 2011 | Blog, Medical/EMS
Another Real-Life Incident I was on-shift the night an industrial hazardous waste plant burst into flames. I obviously have all the inside information, but it won’t be released to the public, so I’m sorry to say I can’t share most of it with you. What I can say –...
