July 2015

WAS launches two innovations providing more safety and reliability to rescuers: With the WAS SanSafe technology, a disinfection method that is completely integrated as a system, it is possible to free the patient compartment of ambulance…

At least 36 people were killed after a passenger ferry with 173 passengers and 16 crew capsized in rough waters in the central Philippines today, a disaster monitoring official said. Local radio station Radyo Inquirer said today that…

WHASHINGTON - It's an incredible footage caught on camera by the Channel 11 cameraman and journalist, the resuscitation maneuver that Police Officers made on an unresponsive man in a Washington parking lot on June, 24th. The unresponsive…

Month-long tour saw the H145 making first stop in Sydney last week Aircraft will now head north to Brisbane and greater Queensland, before wrapping up down south in Melbourne and Canberra  Total of 13 flights were performed in the first…

READ ON MEDEST118 - New evidences aroused in treatment of ischemic stroke from early 2015. Large and well conducted trials demonstrated the benefit of endovascular therapy (in association with thrombolysis) on primary clinical endpoints.…

Turnaround time is the time spent by paramedics at hospital emergency departments. It is measured from the time an ambulance arrives at a hospital to when it is ready to respond to other incidents. This time is called RAMPING. Ramping…

ROME - The large majority of the 137,000 people who crossed the Mediterranean Sea into Europe during the first six months of 2015 were fleeing from war, conflict or persecution, making the Mediterranean crisis primarily a refugee crisis, a…

KASK, based in Italy, is a company specialized in the developing, designing, and manufacturing of sport and safety HELMETS of the highest quality. In every field of application KASK helmets are at the forefront, be it cycling, downhill…

Ferno was one of the most interesting exhibitors at Interschutz 2015 with the new IN/X project, the first kind of electronic stretcher which have indipendent legs. This device was presented to Emergency Live by mr. Jim West, International…

AT LEAST 74 people have been killed after a military plane – with more than 100 people on board – crashed into houses in a highly populated area of Indonesia. Smoke could be seen billowing into the sky as rescue workers raced to the scene. …