Sue Thompson, RGN, is moving/handling coordinator; Phil Jevon, PGCE, BSc, RN, is resuscitation officer/clinical skills lead; both at Manor Hospital, Walsall, West Midlands. Using a hoist to move a ...

FORT RILEY, Kan. - Medics with Company C, 101st Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, along with the support of the 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, ...

CAMP TAJI - From the ground, it appears a daunting prospect - being hoisted 75 feet in the air to a hovering UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. In the face of an emergency medical situation, especially when ...

Due to “an alarming increase” in deaths and injuries involving communication-tower workers, OSHA has updated a 2002 directive covering inspection of hoist systems used to move workers to and from ...