Ambulance services across the world are bracing for an increase in the number of daily incidents, since the holiday season is about to officially start in a few days. The SWAS is no different. In a ...

Charges for air ambulance services were 4.1–9.5 times higher than what Medicare paid for the same services in 2016. The median charge ratios (the charge divided by the Medicare rate) for the services ...

A nationwide study of more than 63,000 cases of cardiac arrest found that ambulances on average took nearly four minutes longer to handle calls from low-income areas than high-income communities. In ...

Shorter ambulance response times are associated with a higher rate of survival in patients with sudden out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The later discharge rate is also affected substantially by ...

Sonna Anderson was enjoying a horseback ride through the Badlands in North Dakota in September 2017 when her horse, Cody, got spooked, jerked toward a fence and tripped on a cow track in the dirt. The ...

For the past 50 years, privately owned and operated ambulance firms in California have had their crews remain on call during their work breaks, making themselves available to answer emergency calls ...

With the recent opening of a totally rebuilt Fire Station 1 and the roll out of a major change to ambulance service, the Costa Mesa Fire Department’s offerings could be called both new and improved.

When Jamil Bangura realized that he and his family had signs of Ebola, in September 2014, he did what he had been told to do. Following instructions from the Sierra Leonean government, he didn't try ...