Police Medical Supplies News & Articles

By PoliceOne StaffORLANDO — Authors of a University of Pennsylvania study said that police aren't equipping enough patrol cars with life-saving automated external defibrillators.The study found that ...

The $7 million, silver and navy aircraft was unveiled Friday afternoon ...

"If you can flip a light switch or put on a band aid, you can work this thing." – Chief Stephen Johnson, Rochester (Minn.) Police DepartmentI tested the Philips HeartStart FRX, an advanced ...

By Greg FrieseMedical supplies are the broad range of supplies law enforcement professionals use to assess and treat themselves, other officers, and patients. Because most law enforcement medical care ...

In the event of a pandemic flu, the need for mass immunizations will be vital to containing the spread of the disease and also decreasing the impact to the nation's critical infrastructure. To operate a successful Point of Dispensing (POD), key leaders from all disciplines – fire/EMS, health, law enforcement and emergency management – will need to work together. ...

We do not get to choose when and where we will be attacked, the number of attackers, the duration of attack, or how we might be injured, but by virtue of the oath we took, we have an obligation to be prepared. Assembling your own blow out kit is relatively simple and inexpensive, and should include (as a minimum) all of the items necessary to treat life threatening injuries caused by penetrating trauma such as gunshot or stab wounds. ...

The tactical situation or the presence of an existing hostile threat may not allow the time and may prevent conventional methods of hemorrhage control such as direct pressure, elevation, and/or the use of a hemostatic agent. The recommended means to control extremity bleeding in a tactical environment while under fire is a rapidly and properly applied tourniquet. ...

By Nafeesa Syeed The Associated PressDISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. — American air safety investigators hope to wrap up work in a couple of days at the scene of a deadly weekend helicopter crash that killed ...

Ed Note: This is the first of a two part series. In part one below, author Chuck Soltys explores self/buddy care, gear placement, basic hemorrhage control, as well as a few of the vital arteries and nerves ...