From the Africa Desk of Ambulance Today: The Challenge of Critical Thinking in EMS
https://chat.whatsapp.com/Africa Desk Feedback This Africa Quarterly will be exploring the advantages of being a critical thinking emergency medicine practitioner, and how it can positively benefit, us, our colleagues and our patients; and most importantly why we don’t really have an option but to be critical thinkers. In Rosen’s Emergency Medicine, Chapman, et al, describes the […]
STOP THE BLEED: More Lives Could Be Saved If Public Received Trauma Response Training
Safeguard Medical is calling for the introduction of life-saving bleed kits across the UK and offering over 500 places on FREE bleed control training sessions for UK public, following the news that 87% of emergency responders say they believe more lives could be saved if the public were to receive basic trauma response training. In a recent survey […]
National Fitness and Wellness Charity Challenge Launched to Support Emergency Services
Emergency services teams and those that support the blue light community are being encouraged to register to take part in a month-long fitness and wellbeing charity challenge to raise money for four emergency services charities. The Blue Light Get Active Challenge has been launched by national charities The Fire Fighters Charity, The Air Ambulance Service, The Ambulance Staff Charity and Police […]
Why Funding For Paramedic Students Should Be Available To All
By Megan Durling As a student paramedic in England with a previous undergraduate degree, my motivation to become a paramedic comes at a significant personal cost — £27,750 in tuition fees to be precise. Unlike my peers who are studying nursing, midwifery and nine other Allied Healthcare Professional (AHP) courses as a second undergraduate degree, […]
MDA’s New Paramedics: Father and Son
Itzik (53) and Amir Amzaleg (25), a father and son, where recently involved in a special and extraordinary occasion when they both took the stage at the graduation ceremony of MDA’s paramedics course and received their certifications. Afterwards, they went out for their first shift together on a MICU (Mobile Intensive Care Unit). In 1981, […]
Colleague Turns Life-Saver After Choking Incident
A Welsh Ambulance Service paramedic has been left feeling “eternally grateful” to the colleague who saved his life when he choked on his dinner. And what’s more, Gareth Jones, of Tenby, wasn’t even supposed to be working with his saviour, paramedic Hayley Bennett that day. Gareth, 42, and based at Tenby station was part way […]
Armed Forces Week: “Thank You for Your Service”, Says Welsh Ambulance Service
The Welsh Ambulance Service is celebrating its service men and women past and present for Armed Forces Week (21-27 June). Dozens of veterans work across the organisation having served in the Armed Forces, and are supported by a growing number of reservists. More than 200 British Army soldiers also assisted the Trust’s COVID-19 effort by driving and […]
First-Time Parents Meet Ambulance Call Handler Who Helped Deliver Their Baby Girl
First-time parents who delivered their own baby girl at home have met the 999 call handler who helped to bring their daughter into the world. Troy Smith, 34, and partner Abigail Jones, 33, delivered baby Arabella Dilys Smith in the bedroom of their Llanelli home with thanks to a Welsh Ambulance Service call handler. It […]
MDA’s Wish Ambulance Fulfils Dream for 7-year-old Capt. Rafael Yotam
About four years ago, Rafael Yotam Cohen, who has cancer, fulfilled a dream using an MDA Wish Ambulance by flying in an MDA-Lahak emergency helicopter in the southern skies of the country. Recently, Rafael Yotam’s rare illness sadly returned for the third time, so his old friends at MDA returned once more to give him […]
Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex Executive Director Recognised IN Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021
Leigh Curtis, Executive Director of Service Delivery for life-saving charity Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS), has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021, receiving an MBE for services to the Air Ambulance Service particularly during COVID-19. Leigh, who is a state registered paramedic, joined KSS in 2007 having worked previously for the NHS in […]
MDA Launch New Facebook Feature to Promote Blood Donations
Adi Soffer-Teeni, the General Manager for Facebook Israel, recently visited Magen David Adom’s National Operations Center in Kiryat Ono to launch a new technology feature with MDA’s Director General, Eli Bin, which will be integrated into Facebook in order to help raise awareness of the importance of blood donations In Israel. It will also show […]