In the moments after a family member stops breathing or gets battered in a car wreck, time slows down as urgency speeds up. Each minute waiting for an ambulance seems an eternity. Many factors go into ...
Anson General Hospital needed to transfer a pediatric patient to a specialist at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, but the only ambulance in Anson wasn’t available. If it had made ...
Gary Wingrove, a Florida-based leader in community paramedicine, said the concept took off in the early 2000s and now includes hundreds of sites. A 2017 survey of 129 programs found that 55% operated ...