September 2015

ACLS Guidelines are misleading about diagnosis and treatment of pulseless electric activity (PEA) This takes to conceptual and clinical errors when treating patients in cardiac arrest.  Let’s see why and if there is a better way to follow…

With Military operations in Afghanistan having drawn to a close at the end of 2014, Medical evacuation services are now increasingly operating in austere environments and facing new medical and logistical challenges. Such challenges include…

SOURCE: THE WRAP - Johnson & Johnson and Eggland’s Best tell TheWrap they have withdrawn ads over the hosts’ comments about nursing profession. 2 sponsors (Johnson & Johnson and Eggland's Best) have pulled ads from ABC’s “The…

Cervical collars are applied to blunt trauma patients all the time. And most of the time, the neck is fine. It’s just those few patients that have a fracture or ligamentous injury that really need it.

CROATIA is deploying teams of land mine experts to the border with Serbia as refugees tread a dangerous path over ground festooned with undetonated mines left over from the Balkan wars. Tens of thousands of mines litter the…

MINNEAPOLIS FOX9 (KMSP) - On a wintry January day in 2014, an Allina ambulance collided with an SUV in Buffalo, Minn.  The driver of the SUV was killed and the ambulance crew critically injured.  As the victims recovered, Allina decided its…

The Victorian Government has stopped the "hospital bypass" practice, that permits to the metropolitan hospitals to deny access to patient in non-critical conditions if they are full.

At the IAA annual conference held in London in May, mr. Kenneth Kronohage (Director of Special Projects for Falck) unveiled a report produced by Quartz+Co and commissioned by Falck Emergency Europe which disputed the EXPH findings…

STEM, founded in 1986 by Ezio Menna, is one of the most important companies worldwide as far as the production of Stretcher Supports for ambulances and Retractable Steps for professional and emergency vehicles is concerned".