Study: Too few police cruisers have AEDs 9
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 ...
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Wounded man seeks help in US 1
By Diana Washington Valdez El Paso TimesEL PASO — A victim of the Juarez violence crossed the border on Sunday to seek medical treatment for a gunshot wound.Police spokesman Darrel Petry said an ...
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Product Review: Philips HeartStart FRX1
"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 ...
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How to buy police medical supplies
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 ...
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Fla. cops have a new weapon to fight germs 3
By Gary Taylor Orlando SentinelSANFORD, Fla. — The latest weapon carried by Sanford police officers doesn't fire bullets and wouldn't do much damage if they hit you with it.But the device they now ...
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Pandemic flu planning: How to set up point of dispensing sites
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. ...
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Fla. medics are a crucial part of SWAT teams
By Jerome Burdi Sun-SentinelFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — These fire-rescue paramedics fight blazes, and pack heat.In Palm Beach County, SWAT medics can double as police officers. They go through the police ...
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Assembling a blow out kit for patrol3
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. ...
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Founder of police support group dies 1
By Patrick George Austin American-StatesmanAUSTIN, Texas — Dr. James Moritz, who for 26 years provided aid and comfort to the families of fallen police officers and emergency workers, died Tuesday ...
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Tactical tourniquet use – Part two2
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.
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Radiation treatment fools N.H. trooper's sensor1
By David Abel The Boston Globe EAST WAKEFIELD — The disabled 60-year-old driving a royal blue Chevy Malibu on New Hampshire's Spaulding Turnpike didn't look like an emissary of Al Qaeda.But there ...
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Four killed in Md. medical helicopter crash
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 ...
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Atlanta 'police surgeon' bonds with officers1
Related article: Firsthand account: Police surgeonBy S.A. Reid The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionATLANTA — When two Atlanta police officers were rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital's emergency room after ...
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Tucson police to get lifesaving bandages
Related articles: Tucson cop killer 'didn't set out to kill', Officer Down: Officer Erik HiteBy David Teibel The Tucson CitizenTUCSON — Less than two weeks after the fatal shooting of Officer Erik ...
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Nurse brushes aside praise for helping officer
By Hayes Hickman The Knoxville News-SentinelKNOXVILLE, Tenn. - It wasn't the first gunshot wound Tim Hall had treated, but it was the first one the registered nurse encountered in his own neighborhood.Hall ...
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HIV-positive man gets jail for spitting on cop2
By Tiara M. Ellis The Dallas Morning NewsDALLAS — An HIV-positive man with a history of spitting at police officers and biting fellow jail inmates was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday.Willie ...
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