April 2016

This paper highlights a number of ways in which disaster risk management financing and governance can be used to advance sustainable development and, likewise, in which development actions can be used to strengthen disaster resilience.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) today launched an 18.4 million Swiss franc (19 million US dollars) appeal to support the Ecuadorian Red Cross deliver assistance to an estimated 100,000 people in…

Graphics artists and marketers for closely, loosely and totally unrelated to health care products are prone to drawing fanciful heart rhythms. I suspect many paramedics puzzle over what the illustrators had in mind for a jumble of zigs and…

This issue focuses on the theme of Emergency Management Exercises (EMExes) in Assam organized by Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA)

Author: Mario Rugna The chain of survival is well known and most of us work everyday to spread it’s use at every level. Chest compressions is, along with early defibrillation, the most important and evidence based intervention to save a…

Premiere for the AT. The first of Rosenbauer's premium class firefighting trucks have been implemented on the new Antos chassis from Mercedes-Benz

The San Bernardino tragedy is a shooting occourred on December 2, 2015

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency was established in 1998. Since then it has evolved into a lean, forward looking organisation, continually striving to be the best maritime safety organisation in the world. It has a professional,…

 The SAWO International Fair of Work Protection, Fire-Fighting and Rescue Equipment will be held in Poznań on April 26-28.  It is the largest fair related to work safety in Central and Eastern Europe. This year's SAWO is going to be…

A successful CPR story: this was contributed by Dr. Johanna Moore, one of my Hennepin Colleagues who researches CPR, along with Keith Lurie and Demetris Yannopoulos. She translated her research knowledge into a spectacular resuscitation.