May 2014

The over-arching theme of smaccGOLD was the bringing together of people from all facets of critical care to share ideas, collaborate, learn from one another and understand each other. Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM) kicked off the conference…

On May 20th, 2012, at 02:03 UTC (04:03 local time), Emilia region of Northern Italy was struck by an earthquake of local magnitude ML 5.9. The focal mechanism was reverse, with maximum compression along the N–S direction (dip =…

The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) are a humanitarian group who work throughout Burma (also known as Myanmar) but concentrate primarily on the heavily forested border region, delivering emergency medical assistance to sick and injured internally…

Red Cross teams working in close cooperation with the emergency management sector and local emergency headquarters have been helping evacuate the population affected by severe floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The region has…

Jessica Andrusaitis MS1Robert Katzer MD MBAUniversity of California, IrvineCenter for Disaster Medical Scienceshttp://www.cdms.uci.edu The University of California, Irvine Department…

Between April 21 and May 2, the Peruvian armed forces orchestrated the “Cooperation III” multinational military exercise, which was carried out in the coastal cities of Lima and Pisco. The goal was to prepare the Peruvian armed…

A perfect water rescue action were made by EMT, Firefighters and Police in Richmond, West Virginia. A guy who try to kill himself were saved from the James River. Here below the video, who Chris Munnings capture live from the event. The…

An unknown medic in an unknown place of Usa love to Vogue. Also on work. That's what a dashcam from an ambulance register some month ago, and that's what youtube can reveal us. The ironic video show the driver who dance voguing style on a…

All the european rescuers from rescue organisations and fire services are in these days interested by RettMobil Expo. On a total area of 70,000 square meters, there are 20 exhibition halls - also a new record - a large outdoor area…

Geneva (ICRC) – The devastating effects of acute crises that emerged at the end of 2013 in South Sudan and the Central African Republic are still being felt. The conflict in Syria has assumed the proportions of a catastrophe, with…