February 2015

ILCOR Scientific Evidence Evaluation and Review System Questions Open for Public Comment Closing Date – February 28, 2015 Question page HERE Among adults who are in cardiac arrest outside of a hospital (P), does provision of chest…

SANTA MARGHERITA FIRE DEPARTMENT - Through the years, certain rules have come to the forefront that increase scene safety and provide for a more efficient extrication operation. The Golden rules are applicable in every operation and should…

Tachycardia simply means a faster heart rate than normal.  With the sinoatrial node, which is the heart's inborn pacemaker, the intrinsic rate is between 60 and 100 beats per minute.  When the rate exceeds 100 beats per minute, tachycardia…

In 2002, a couple of years after he won the Olympic gold medal in wrestling, Rulon Gardner went snowmobiling in Wyoming. “I told myself it would be a short trip,” he told the Associated Press. “We were going to go out about three hours and…

Alicante, 24 February 2015 - Researchers at the University of Alicante Nursing Department have carried out a project to achieve successful endotracheal intubation in a moving ambulance. With the collaboration of ASV Transporte Sanitario…

ON ALIEM - By Michelle Lin, MD When the topic of pericarditis is mentioned, the classic electrocardiogram (ECG) findings of diffuse ST elevation and PR depression are often the focus of discussion. What about the criteria for diagnosis,…

ON ALIEM, By Michelle Lin, MD Traditionally in medical school, it is taught that lower extremity deep tendon reflexes for L4 and S1 nerve root levels can be elicited by tapping on the patella and Achilles tendons. It was just taught that …

Marisa Cuellar, News-Herald Media LOYAL — A 13-year-old Greenwood boy, Bailey Venet, is alive thanks to the help of good Samaritans from Granton, Greenwood and Loyal who rushed to resuscitate him after he collapsed on the Loyal High…

The world's first collision proof drone. Swiss search-and-rescue drone wins UAE competition A clever, bizarre-looking drone that may one day save your butt has won a million bucks in the UAE's Drones for Good competition. Flyability's…

Atrial fibrillation (AF), atrial flutter, AV-nodal reentry tachycardia (AVNRT) with rapid ventricular response, atrial ectopic tachycardia and preexcitation syndromes (AVRT) sometimes combined with AF or ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VTA)…