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Russia, 28 April is Ambulance Rescuer's Day
Across Russia, from Sochi to Vladivostok, today is Ambulance Worker's Day
Why is 28 April Ambulance Worker's Day in Russia?
This celebration has had two phases, a very long unofficial one: On 28 April 1898, the first organised ambulance…
Italy, new colour codes for triage have come into force in emergency rooms
The new national guidelines for triage in emergency rooms are coming into force in the various Italian regions, and these days this has happened in Lombardy
March 28, 1865 (?), the first hospital ambulance service in the USA in Cincinnati
The ambulance in the USA was not exactly born on March 28, 1865, but this is certainly a fundamental date in the history of American rescue: in Cincinnati, in fact, the Commercial Hospital begins its hospital transport service
Germany, ambulance drivers: nationwide study on ambulance driver training
In Germany, a consortium consisting of the German Road Safety Council (DVR), the Würzburg Institute for Traffic Science (WIVW), the Centre for Applied Emergency Science (ZaNowi) and the German Society for Emergency Science (DGNOW) is…
Ambulance, medical emergency motorcycle (MEM) and accidents: are three-wheelers (trikes) safer than…
The medical emergency motorcycle (MEM) is an essential, almost indispensable means of rescue in certain scenarios. In city centres, in forested mountain areas, on the beaches of our coastlines, at crucial points on the motorway network:…
Stress and burnout, Pet Therapy in Wales helps ambulance staff: Dill's story
In Mid Wales the Ambulance Service has welcomed Dill, its first therapy dog. A solution to the increasing stress and burnout that is affecting ambulance crews as elsewhere in the world
Germany, targeted attacks on rescue workers on New Year's Eve: Berlin in shock after 33 injured
New Year's Eve in Germany: the heads of the fire brigade, police and rescue services 'in shock' not because of the number of interventions, but because of the numerous targeted attacks on ambulances and rescue vehicles
Germany, virtual ambulance for the training of the future
Germany, a revolution in rescue services thanks to virtual ambulance training: Computer Games Technology students set virtual reality in motion
UK, ambulance workers' strike successful: sympathetic population, government in trouble
Political speculation aside, which we shun like the black plague, the ambulance workers' strike was perfectly successful, and found widespread public solidarity
UK ambulance staff strike tomorrow: NHS warnings to citizens
Staff in the NHS, the Anglo-Saxon national health system, are in the midst of a period of unrest and strikes, and tomorrow it is the turn of ambulance workers