Emergency Medical Services Action

Images depicting emergency medical teams in various scenarios, including patient assistance and disaster response. Focus on teamwork and medical care in urgent situations.

Photo essay with an Emergency Medical Service team of Pontoise hospital (France). 18-month-old baby having convultions due to fever.

Photo essay with an Emergency Medical Service team of Pontoise hospital (France). Intervention on a woman suffering of back pain and legs paralysis. The doctor suspects a cauda equina syndrome. The woman is transferred to a hospital for medical examinations.

Hurricane Wilma, Plantation, FL, October 28, 2005 FEMA Disaster Mecical Assistance Team paramedic Mark Shipp from Tennessee One washes out the dog bite of patient Juan Vazquez of Ft. Lauderdale as DMAT Dr. Allene Jackson, Oklahoma one, writes a report. The DMAT is set up next to Westside Regional Hospital to help with the increase of patients to the emergency room due to Hurricane Wilma.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Altenpfler helps an old man in a nursing home to get up, Heidelberg, Germany, Europe

A hospital-based emergency service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and covers an entire region.

Photo essay with an Emergency Medical Service team of Pontoise hospital (France). 18-month-old baby having convultions due to fever.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, replacement parts for the Zvezda service module toilet on the International Space Station are loaded aboard space shuttle Discovery. The toilet malfunctioned last week and was initially repaired by replacing a microprocessor valve. After the station crew members experienced additional difficulties with the toilet, they were directed to use Soyuz toilet facilities at first and are using the main toilet again after rigging a urine bypass. The spare toilet parts have been added to Discoverys manifest for delivery to the station on the STS-124 mission. On the 14-day mission, Discovery and its crew will deliver the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Japanese Experiment Module - Pressurized Module and the Japanese Remote Manipulator System. Launch is scheduled for 5:02 p.m. EDT May 31.

Support by the firefighters of the SDIS 80 and the teams of the SMUR of Abbeville, emergency doctor, State-certified nurse anesthetist (IADE) and paramedic of a person suffering from a cardiac problem at his home. Diagnosis and care carried out by SMUR teams and transfer of the patient to the hospital.

Report on a rescue device specializing in difficult mountain access. Rescuers intervene with another team to rescue a man found on the side of the road. He has impaired consciousness and a weak Glasgow.

Hurricane Wilma, Plantation, FL, October 28, 2005 FEMA Disaster Mecical Assistance Team paramedic Mark Shipp from Tennessee One washes out the dog bite of patient Juan Vazquez of Ft. Lauderdale as nurse Wendy Steward, Oklahoma One helps out. The DMAT is set up next to Westside Regional Hospital to help with the increase of patients to the emergency room due to Hurricane Wilma.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Alzano lombardo (Bg) - One year after the first Covid case, the Spi-Cgil has donated an inflatable structure to the nursing home for the elderly that allows guests and their families to hug each other again. (Bergamo - 2021-02-23, Foto Sergio Agazzi). The photo can be used in compliance with the context in which it was taken, and without the defamatory intent of the decorum of the people represented.

A hospital-based emergency service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and covers an entire region.Intervention in a person suffering from chest pain. An ECG Electrocardiogram is performed.

Scott Aleckson, a paramedic from Doyon Medical Facility in Soldotna, Alaska, checks a victims pulse during a civilian and military mass causality exercise at the Alyeska Pipeline in Valdez, Alaska hosted by the Alaskan Command, during exercise NORTHERN EDGE 2002. Scott Aleckson, a paramedic from Doyon Medical Facility in Soldotna, Alaska, checks a victims pulse during a civilian and military mass causality exercise at the Alyeska Pipeline in Valdez, Alaska hosted by the Alaskan Command, during exercise NORTHERN EDGE 2002.

Hurricane Wilma, Belle Glade, FL, October 26, 2005 Members of the FEMA Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Oklahoma one, assist the staff of the Glades General Hospital examine a patient in the emergency room. Hurricane Wilma, the fifth major hurricane of the season, came trough this area.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, La., September 4 2005 -- "Life of a D-MAT Member" TX-4 at New Orleans airport where FEMA's D-MATs have set up operations.

France, Brittany, Dinan, 18/12/2021. Covid-19 vaccination centre in Dinan, Brittany. Here is the entrance to the centre and the waiting area for the vaccine. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Bretagne, Dinan, le 18/12/2021. Centre de vaccination contre la Covid-19 a Dinan en Bretagne. Ici entree du centre et lieu d attente pour acceder au vaccin. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

Fort Myers, FL, USA - (Oct. 11, 2022) - Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMAT) from Connecticut (CT-1 DMAT) assist patients at a makeshift hospital set up outside of the Gulf Coast Medical Center to help residents in areas impacted by Hurricane Ian.Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA

Photo essay with an Emergency Medical Service team of Pontoise hospital (France). 18-month-old baby having convultions due to fever.

Medical staff cleaning and getting ready for the day at the Intensive care unit of the Liege hospital which is badly impacted by Covid 19. Liege, Belgium.

First aid training courses given by the French Red Cross.

A Ghanaian nurse assigned to the 6th Infantry Battalion works with a translator to treat patient during a medical civic action program (MEDCAP) in Yendi, Ghana, August 31, 2022. MEDCAPs serve as temporary field clinics to provide limited medical treatment to the local population.

Monitoring of people after injection of a vaccine against Covid-19 in a vaccination center. French Red Cross volunteers in charge of monitoring people for a period of 15 minutes. In Abbeville (80).

Support by a team from the SMUR d'Abbeville, emergency doctor, State-certified nurse anesthetist (IADE) and ambulance driver for a person suffering from a cardiac problem at home.

Physician, Pallavicino Castle

A hospital-based emergency service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and covers an entire region. After an intervention, the paramedics clean and prepare their equipment for the next outing. Here a stretcher equipped with a shell mattress.

Monitoring of people after injection of a vaccine against Covid-19 in a vaccination center. French Red Cross volunteers in charge of monitoring people for a period of 15 minutes. In Abbeville (80).

Photo essay with a mobile assistance team of a social humanitarian emergency service (Samusocial) in France.

Photo essay with an Emergency Medical Service team of Pontoise hospital (France). Night intervention with a diabetic woman having lost consciousness, she would have taken her insulin dose without having food. She is then transferred to the hospital.

Description: Madrid, 03/27/2020. Interview with Enrique López, director of Pemam, about the coronavirus, and report on the Emergency facilities. Photo: Maya Balanya. ARCHDC.

Emergency medicine students attends a circumstantial emergency simulation course led by two emergency physicians. Simulation of a drowning case at the beach. Realistic images and sound are projected all around the room to immerse students in total immersion. A young girl came up to the water's edge in cardiac arrest. Cardiac massage and intubation are performed on site.

Dental pathologist LT. COL. Roger Smith, a dental pathologist with the 316th Air Division, and an assistant study dental X-rays in an attempt to identify the remains of Texas Representative George (Mickey) Leland and 15 members of his delegation. Leland and the others were killed when their plane crashed in a mountainous region as they were en route to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border. Base: Addis Ababa Country: Ethiopia (ETH)

Car mechanic or serviceman disassembly and checking a disc brake and asbestos brake pads for fix and repair problem at car garage or repair shop. Checking car brake system for repair at car garage

Medical Assisstance - 26-HK-165-5. Hurricane Katrina

First aid training courses given by the French Red Cross.

Students work as a team to assist a simulated casualty out of a crashed vehical during advance trauma training at Pelham Specialty Training, Inc. in Bloomfield, Ind. The training is an accelerated program that packs nine months of training into 120 days. Students learn in a classroom setting Monday through Thursday while earning their

Mountain rescuers transport an injured skier via helicopter.

Emergency medicine students attends a circumstantial emergency simulation course led by two emergency physicians. Simulation of a drowning case at the beach. Realistic images and sound are projected all around the room to immerse students in total immersion. A young girl came up to the water's edge in cardiac arrest.

Volunteers verify the contents of boxes of blood products at the Blood Transshipment Center (BTC) at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, Oct. 9, 2010. The volunteers also check the blood products to ensure there are no cracks or other defects in the bags.

Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, La., September 1, 2005 -- Evacuees / Hospital patients arrive at New Orleans airport where FEMA's D-MATs have set up operations.

A Florida panther is examined, vaccinated and sampled after being captured in S. Florida.

Report on a rescue device specializing in difficult mountain access. Rescuers intervene with another team to rescue a man found on the side of the road. He has impaired consciousness and a weak Glasgow.

Emergency medicine students attends a circumstantial emergency simulation course led by two emergency physicians. In this case, the students will have to find the right gestures to revive a man victim of a drowning in hypothermia.

TGSH Veterinary and customs officers checking passengers at the airport, Germany, Europe

Equip with veterinary surgeons dealing with Addax Tunisia

A hospital-based emergency service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and covers an entire region. Intervention at home.

Airmen from the 2nd Medical Group wash a training manikin as part of a medical readiness exercise at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, July 13, 2022. In the exercise scenario, where the victims were exposed to harmful chemicals, a cleaning station was set up to decontaminate the patients before administering medical treatment.

Earthquake Tsunami - Pago Pago, American Samoa, October 5, 2009 A member of a Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) rushes supplies onto an awaiting Coast Guard plane that will evacuate an infant to Hawaii. DMATs are part of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Disaster Medical System which supports hospitals and other medical and public health needs of communities during disasters such as the earthquake and tsunami disaster in American Samoa. . American Samoa Earthquake, Tsunami, and Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Anniston, Ala., Aug. 23, 2013 Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMATs) members from teams across the U.S. work together during a mass casualty exercise at FEMA's Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP). DMATs are part of the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) that boosts the nation's medical response in support of state and local authorities during a disaster.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Tornado - Joplin, Mo. , August 2, 2011 A FEMA damage assessment team tries to find its way through St. John's Regional Medical Center by studying map on the wall of the damaged hospital complex. FEMA is providing assistance to those who were affected by the tornado. Elissa Jun/FEMA. Missouri Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Flight nurses Dawn Stobaugh and Lora York, from Air Lift Northwest, examine Sailors for simulated injuries and perform triage during an aeromedical evacuation training evolution at Naval Station Everett, Washington June 6, 2022. The training focused on preparing for a potential real-world earthquake and tsunami disaster response.

Photo essay with an Emergency Medical Service team of Pontoise hospital (France). Night intervention for a woman in respiratory distress syndrome in an old people's home. The woman is transferred to the hospital.

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Alexsis Green, middle, a dental assistant with the Health Engagements Assistance Response Team (HEART) 2022, and Master Sgt. Adolfo Figueroa III, right, a dental hygienist with HEART 22, hand out toothbrushes at Hospital Regional de Occidente in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, Aug. 24, 2022. One of the goals of HEART 22 was to join with partner nations to promote the well-being of local communities together.

Port Charlotte, FL, USA--10/15/2022-FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell meets with members ot the Disaster Medical Assistance Team that is set up in to support local hospitals with residents that need medical attention following Hurricane Ian.Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA

Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) male sick with chlamydia being examined by veterinarian Michael Pyne and hospital manager Patricia Swift, Currumbin Wildlife Hospital, Queensland, Australia

120906-N-UE250-133OLONGAPO CITY, Philippines (Sept. 6, 2012) Olongapo City Mayor James Gordon Jr. helps Electronics Technician 3rd Class Alisha Lebeau, assigned to the submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40), paint windowsill in the charity wing of the James L. Gordon Hospital. Frank Cable Sailors and civil service mariners spent the day working with members of the hospital staff to paint rooms throughout the hospital. Frank Cable conducts maintenance and support of submarines and surface vessels deployed in the U.S. 7th area of responsibility.

Veterinary surgeon making Caesarean section on a cow

011091411 FEMA assists survivors of the Bastrop fires. Texas Pat Gross Fire. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

An emergency service based at the hospital operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and operates throughout an entire region. SMUR helicopter. Departure in intervention.

011071811 Red Cross provides food for Minot residents. North Dakota Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Reportage on a vet in Ham in the Somme area of France. Every day she travels all over the countryside in Northern France to owners homes to care for all kinds of animals.

Reportage with the intensive care medical team of the Paris fire brigade. These teams only intervene in life-threatening cases. The nurse carries out an ECG on a patient who is complaining of chest pains, while a doctor examines her.

Report on a rescue device specializing in difficult mountain access. Rescuers intervene with another team to rescue a man found on the side of the road. He has impaired consciousness and a weak Glasgow.

LT. Robin McKenzie, a nurse at the station's hospital, looks over a procedures manual. Base: Nas, Roosevelt Roads State: Puerto Rico (PR) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Personnel participate in a blood drive July 15, 2022, by the American Red Cross at Fort McCoy, Wis. Dozens of Soldiers and other personnel donated blood in a successful effort by the Red Cross. Red Cross officials said there is an ongoing urgent need for blood donors and ask people to give if they can.

Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) chick being weighed by researcher, Codfish Island, New Zealand

Report on a rescue device specializing in difficult mountain access. Rescuers intervene with another team to rescue a man found on the side of the road. He has impaired consciousness and a weak Glasgow.

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Administration of anti-inflammatory to tiger with a gun

Emergency medicine students attends a circumstantial emergency simulation course led by two emergency physicians. Simulation of a drowning case at the beach. Realistic images and sound are projected all around the room to immerse students in total immersion. A young girl came up to the water's edge in cardiac arrest.

Prevention of lead poisoning diseases : technician measuring lead content in the painted surfaces from deteriorated lead-paints.

A hospital-based emergency service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and covers an entire region.Intervention in a person suffering from chest pain. An ECG Electrocardiogram is performed.

Staff Sgt. Zeshan Mahmoon assists patients with nasal swab samples for the COVID-19 community-based collection site, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020 in Duckwater, Nevada. Mahmoon works with Task Force Souths coronavirus ‘strike team and assisted the Shoshone Tribal Health Clinic while testing over 70 members in the tribal community.

A simulated victim is loaded onto the LifeLine medevac during the 2022 major accident response exercise, June 29, 2022, on F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. The medevac health-care professionals joined the exercise for practice and experience for the possibility of real-world events.

110718-N-QD416-015ACAJUTLA, El Salvador (July 18, 2011) Lt. Cmdr. Brad Serwer, left, and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Benjamin Stewart perform an echocardiogram on a patient as Salvadoran medical student Alfonso Rodriguez, center, watches during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service medical event at the Instituto Nacional Acajutla. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribbean, Central and South America.

Orthopedic surgery. Orthopedic surgery under vertical laminar flow. The surgical team wear a sterile protective clothing while setting a hip prosthesis.. The orthopedic surgery requires drastic hygiene measures because the bone's natural defenses againts infections are low, particularly when placing prosthesis.

HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Sept. 2, 2022) - Lt. Matt Pearson, from Loiusville, Kentucky, assists Solomon Islands Police Officers on how to control a hemorrhage during a trauma response training course at Hell's Point during Pacific Partnership 2022. Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific. Pacific Partnership is a unifying mission that fosters enduring friendships and cooperation among many nations. The years mission in Solomon Islands will include participants from the United States, Japan and Australia

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Support by the SDIS 80 firefighters and the SMUR teams from Abbeville, emergency doctor, State-certified nurse anesthetist and paramedic of a person with burns to the face and hands following an electrocution. Diagnosis and care carried out by SMUR teams and firefighters and transfer of the patient to the hospital.

Veterinarians working on an Addax with the PN of Bou-Hedma

Reportage on volunteers with the French charity, Gynecologists Without Borders who work in refugee camps near Calais in the north of France. Midwives looking for patients.

Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) with chlamydia being treated by hospital supervisor Cheyne Flanagan (left), Koala Hospital, Port Macquarie, Australia

Veterinary preparing a injection for a small antelope

Right side front view of US Navy Hospitalman 3rd Class Anthony Pacino as he stands next to a patient's bed recording his vital signs on a chart. The patient lies under mosquito netting in a ward of the 1ST Medical Battalion Field Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. Pacino is a resident of Coupeville, Washington. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Mogadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

Ems Worker Giving Oxygen To Victim

A Mount Weather Police Officer treats a simulated wound during Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) training. A critical part of TCCC is the ability to provide lifesaving techniques to oneself before being transported to a medical facility.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Hurricane Wilma, Plantation, FL, October 27, 2005 Members of the FEMA Disaster Medical Assistance Teams discuss operations inside a tent that will be there base of operations to see patients at the Westside Regional Medical Center. The DMAT team is here to help with the increase of patients to the emergency room as a result of Hurricane Wilma.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

LT. Mayger, Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Allain, Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Hilliker, and Hospitalman Johnston monitor a young patient at the U.S. Naval Hospital. State: Okinawa Country: Japan (JPN)

Severe Storms and Tornadoes, Americus, GA, March 12, 2007 Interior of the temporary triage and registration tent across the street from the damaged Sumter Regional Hospital. The hospital was badly damaged by the recent Georgia tornadoes. Mark Wolfe/FEMA.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

A hospital-based emergency service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and covers an entire region.

Report on a rescue device specializing in difficult mountain access. Rescuers intervene with another team to rescue a man found on the side of the road. He has impaired consciousness and a weak Glasgow.

Monitoring of people after injection of a vaccine against Covid-19 in a vaccination center. French Red Cross volunteers in charge of monitoring people for a period of 15 minutes. In Abbeville (80).

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry signs a guestbook on November 11, 2016, inside the hut in Cape Royds, Antarctica, where explorer Ernest Shackleton and 14 other men lived in 1908, as the Secretary conducted a helicopter tour of U.S. research facilities around Ross Island and the Ross Sea, and visited the McMurdo Station in an effort to learn about the effects of climate change on the Continent.

Reportage on volunteers with the French charity, Gynecologists Without Borders who work in refugee camps near Calais in the north of France. Midwives talking to a freelance nurse who ensures a regular presence in the camp.

Reportage on volunteers with the French charity, Gynecologists Without Borders who work in refugee camps near Calais in the north of France. Midwives looking for patients.

Hurricane Wilma, Plantation, FL, October 28, 2005 Michelle Porter, left, of Plantation, looks on as FEMA Disaster Medical Assistance Team paramedic Steve White (AL-3) gives a breathing treatment to her son, Shawn Porter, from Plantation and David Carroll, paramedic, (OK-3) holds him. The DMAT is located at Westside Regional Medical Center to help the flow of patients visiting the emergency room.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Search and Rescue worker putting a splint on a young boy in the woods in the snow.

Emergency medicine students attends a circumstantial emergency simulation course led by two emergency physicians. Simulation of a drowning case at the beach. Realistic images and sound are projected all around the room to immerse students in total immersion. A young girl came up to the water's edge in cardiac arrest.

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