Emergency Medical Services

Though unmanned aerial vehicles have proliferated in recent years, the US federal government still tightly controls their use. For example, drones must stay within...

“You have very little cellphone coverage,” said Steven Van Roekel, chief innovation officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “You have unreliable power...

Drone delivery has been expanding to first response in the cardiac emergency setting. Every minute literally counts in increasing the odds of survival for...

Local authorities fulfill a major and complex role In the preparedness to an emergency. For the first time, Israeli local authorities’ director generals will receive...

As we learn from experience, most of the trapped victims in the aftermath of earthquakes and other natural disasters are rescued by by-passers, rather...

During a disaster, thousands of people are trying to communicate through the same network at the same time in the same area. This results...

Most of the languages in the world are “low-resource” languages for which there are a dearth of human translators and no automated translation capability....

Emergency response work is physically and mentally exhausting, placing extreme demands on the paramedic both at the civilian and military settings. The critical equipment...

A considerable percentage of the gunshot attacks carried out in the US are not reported to the authorities, and when they are reported -...

Emergency call centers sometimes find it hard to accurately locate an address when a person uses a cellphone to dial 911. For years, the...

IDF special unit 669 is the Israeli Air Force’s Airborne Rescue And Evacuation Unit, and one of IDF’s four special units. The unit defines...

The US Congress has taken steps to enable the development and approval of countermeasures to thwart pathogens that could be employed as weapons in...

Emergency first responders often lack a standard system that supplies vital information about people who have been in an accident or who are suffering...

Due to communications challenges during the response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US, the 9/11 commission recommended the establishment of a single,...

Collisions between First Responders and civilian motorists are at an all-time high and the situation is worsening. Emerging smart city solutions are expected to...

The Internet of Things (IoT) will be able to contribute to emergency life-saving missions (IoLST). Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel in the US soon...

Paramedics in Canada can now see the bigger picture, as Federal authorities in the country has granted a county in the Ontario Province a...

A first-of-its-kind emergency evacuation drill using drone technology was performed by Nevada and California agencies. During the drill on the Nevada-California border just north...

The Chicago city Ambulance Service started incorporating a new emergency response drone. We have just recently wrote in i-HLS.com about drones being flown by canadian...

Ground-breaking research recently used big data analysis and machine learning to develop a model in order to predict the development of pressure injuries among...