PTSD is an official DSM-5 diagnosis and is rooted in exposure to threatened or actual death or serious injury. EMS clinicians may develop PTSD after violent calls, major incidents, or graphic trauma.

Paramedic Field Chief Marjorie Leigh Bomben wrote "It's Not the Trauma, It's the Drama," about her 30-year careers on the Chicago Fire Department. For more than thirty years, Marjorie Leigh Bomben has ...

Ambulances arrive at the emergency room blaring sirens, paramedics rush in carrying bloodied patients, and medical staff scramble to respond to urgent cries in the emergency room. Hospital emergency ...

On January 24, 2025, Netflix started off the year in Korean entertainment with The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call. Based on the popular webcomic Trauma Center: Golden Hour, Netflix's first original ...

Kent County’s Critical Incident Stress Management team is relatively new, formed in the summer of 2021 by several paramedics. A study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found ...

Paramedics en route to helping others. Source: Ilan Kelman “The Culture of Coping in Paramedics” is the bold title of the Ph.D. dissertation by Elizabeth Goble at Flinders University’s College of ...

Malcolm Boyle has received funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Sharon Lawn and Simon Sawyer do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

Training paramedics to implement prehospital guidelines for traumatic brain injury (TBI) has dramatically improved survival in patients with severe head trauma, new data show. Results from the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — When someone is losing blood from a gunshot wound or serious car crash, minutes count. Now, Cleveland trauma victims have a better chance of survival, thanks to new initiatives aimed ...

At 9:31 p.m. the night before Halloween, a Beaufort County ambulance rolled up to a house in greater Bluffton. Two paramedics, responding to a 911 call about a severely beaten man with a head injury, ...