August 2014

Spencer, one of the leading manufacturers of emergency equipment has produced this absolute jewel: a transfer sheet with transport handles suitable in any eventuality. A comfortable, light, superbly well-designed transfer sheet that can be…

(GLOUCESTERSHIRE ECHO) - An ambulance driver has been suspended from duty, pending investigations, after a crash with two pedestrians while on the way to attend an emergency call. The two pedestrians, who remain in hospital with serious…

BRUXELLES - Today's World Humanitarian Day is an occasion to pay tribute to humanitarian workers who risk their lives in bringing assistance to victims of wars and natural disasters worldwide. It is a time when we commemorate all those who…

At Candlemas, near Rouveen, an ambulance landed on its side in a unilateral accident. The accident happened on the Hasselterweg.

EASD is delighted to announce that The European Association of Surfing Doctors (EASD) is accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME) to provide the following CME activity for medical…

(SOURCE: AMERICARES) - As the Ebola outbreak in West Africa intensifies and spreads, pushing the death toll over 1,000, AmeriCares is sending emergency medical aid to Sierra Leone and Liberia, including personal protective equipment for…

EMERGENCY AMBULANCE REDESIGN PART 1 Article by Gianpaolo Fusari  For the past 30 years, ambulances and the service they provide has been focused on transporting patients to hospital with little treatment in between. But the science and…

Comparison of the effectiveness of conventional intubation with a laryngoscope in a moving ambulance and on a static ambulance. An experimental study.

Trucker David Fredericksen uses a fire extinguisher to fight a raging fire after a Lincoln carrying a woman and her one year old granddaughter crashed in Biloxi, Mississippi on August 11th, 2014. David's son posted the dash cam video on…

(SOURCE ICRC) - Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the recent fighting in Ninawa Province, including Sinjar and other areas close to the cities of Mosul, Dohuk and Kirkuk in northern Iraq. Some of them are from religious minorities…