According to UW Medicine, the study analyzed 25,118 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from 2001 to 2020.

King County is one of the best places in the world to have a heart attack. While survival rates for heart attacks in other parts of the U.S. are around 10 percent, chances of surviving in King ...

(The Center Square) – A lower-rate EMS levy proposed by acting King County Executive Shannon Braddock would extend emergency services funding through 2031. The Medic One/EMS levy funds King ...

SEATTLE — Data from the Public Health - Seattle & King Countyshows the fentanyl crisis is straining the county’s first responders as calls for opioid overdoses have increased 65% in 2023 over ...

A new program surrounding the use of epinephrine is being implemented by King County Emergency Medical Services. It has already saved the county $250,000.

SEATTLE- Emergency Medical Services started 40 years ago. It's the program that made CPR available to the masses and has saved many lives. The so-called Father of EMS in Seattle/King County Dr ...

King County EMS sells the kits to fire departments across the country and the state, with training and information available on its website. Paramedics from Alaska, Wisconsin, ...

Thomas Hearne, director of King County Emergency Medical Services for 15 years, died Oct. 24 at his home in West Seattle after a yearlong battle with leukemia. He was 67.

(The Center Square) – A lower-rate EMS levy proposed by acting King County Executive Shannon Braddock would extend emergency services funding through 2031.