September 2015

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Associated Press WASHINGTON — Medicare paid $30 million for ambulance rides for which no record exists that patients got medical care at their destination, the place where they were picked up or other critical…

Typhoon Dujuan killed two people and left more than 300 injured in Taiwan after it swept across the island before reaching land in eastern China, authorities said on Tuesday.

QUEEN’S ROAD (TIMES OF INDIA) -  Seventy-three-year-old Ramamurthy is a diabetic who recently went under the knife. When he experienced difficulty in breathing, he dialled 108 for the emergency response services, and was soon attended to by…

EXETER TOWNSHIP, PA. - Just days after the Muhlenberg Area Ambulance Association handed off the reins to Exeter Township's fire-department-based emergency medical service, the department had its brand-new service model tested last week.…

An interesting study has been published on Procedia about the personality traits that foster professional workers in the ambulance and pre-hospital field.

Serving over 4 million citizens in Texas, Harris County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) is the US’s third largest Sheriff’s Office. They are also the first to test the government’s Public Safety private LTE network. HCSO takes on the challenge of…

Medest118 publish a new interesting video to know what kind of respiratory failure you will have to face during an intervention.  Respiratory failure (know more on ERJ) occurs due mainly either to lung failure (resulting in hypoxaemia) or…

What to do to have a better outcome in stroke patients? One of the solutions will start from the analysis of the patient delay in entering hospitals with stroke symptoms.

SOURCE - TRAUMA PROFESSIONAL'S BLOG A lot of people have been viewing and requesting this post recently.  Here’s a neat trick for finding hard to see rib fractures on standard chest xrays. First, this is not for use with CT…

At least 717 people taking part in the Hajj pilgrimage have been killed in a stampede near the Islamic holy city of Mecca, officials in Saudi Arabia say.