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More than 30,000 police officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians who toiled in the smoldering wreckage at Ground Zero suffer physical or mental health problems today, health officials say. Ten years ago, they were healthy, active and focused on the massive recovery effort. Today, these emergency workers have illnesses ranging from persistent sinusitis and other minor sicknesses to diseases that have left them weak and disabled.
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Two years ago, a wrongful death action against a paramedic resulted in a first-impression holding that emergency medical technicians may be protected from liability similarly to police officers when responding to an emergency. The 2009 decision emphasized that EMTs could be entitled to official immunity on a case-by-case basis, but due to insufficient facts the appellate court did not reach a conclusion as to the paramedic defendant.
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UPLAND - The high-pitched wail of an emergency vehicle siren is a sound recognized by everyone. Thousands of calls from paramedics are received by the San Antonio Community Hospital emergency room technicians every year.
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Brent Kinsey, director of operations for the Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA), was named Emergency Medical Services Administrator of the Year by the Oklahoma Emergency Medical Technicians Association. EMSSTAT Paramedic Sharon Sanderson was named the Advanced EMT of the Year for 2004, a category for advanced EMTs and paramedics. The honor recognized her heroic rescue of a critically injured major trauma patient who was trapped in a vehicle submerged in a creek near Norman's Ed Noble Parkway and Interstate 35 earlier this year.
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A strong sense of community support has kept Rescue 8 -- North Huntingdon's ambulance service -- going strong for half a century. The organization -- which started as a group of 50 volunteers with first-aid training before it developed a paid staff of 21 full- time and 20 per diem emergency medical technicians -- will celebrate its 50th anniversary Saturday.
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To: MEDICAL EDITORS Contact: National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians, +1-800-34-NAEMT (1-800-346-2368)
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The fire department hopes to raise $20,000 for a piece of training equipment that bleeds, cries and takes an injection in stride. The "Smart State Manikin" is a realistic model of a human being that will enhance the training of emergency medical technicians and paramedics, said firefighter/paramedic Don Pelletier.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell has issued a proclamation designating Sept. 11 as a Day of Service and Remembrance and, following direction by President Obama, has ordered that all United States and Pennsylvania flags at state facilities be flown at half-staff in memory of the thousands of Americans who died in the 2001 terrorist attacks. In response to the attacks in New York City, Washington D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, firefighters, police officers, emergency medical technicians, physicians, nurses, military personnel, and other first responders immediately and without concern for their own well-being rose to service, in a heroic attempt to protect the lives of those still at risk, consequently saving thousands of men and women...
