Browsing Category
Ambulance
All you need to know about ambulances, fast medical response cars, and emergency vehicles. News, preparations, equipment, characteristics, problems, warts and benefits of EMS cars and trucks.
Should paramedics continue to intubate?
On a cool fall evening, an ambulance and engine company are dispatched to assist a 44 year old male who is having difficulty breathing. The dispatcher reports that the patient has a history of asthma. The ambulance is staffed by an EMT and…
Turnaround in Australia, the Ambulance ramping ban is reality: What kind of instructions for…
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…
Report: Emergency overcrowd in Seoul and ambulance turnaround time
The aims of this study were to describe overcrowding in regional emergency departments in Seoul, Korea and evaluate the effect of crowdedness on ambulance turnaround time.
Methods - This study was conducted between January 2010 and…
Oxygen damaging for heart attack patients, study says
The routine practice of giving oxygen to patients having heart attacks has been linked to increased heart damage and a greater risk of repeat attacks in a landmark study by Melbourne researchers.
Researchers say the findings, presented…
Strokes are difficult to recognize, even for a Top Doctor
A stroke may leave you incapable of identifying what's wrong, so help from others can be critical
Even Canada's top doctor had trouble recognizing when he was having a stroke, a critical step in getting care to reduce the risk of death and…
Eco-ALS and mechanical chest compressions: that’s the way I like to run a code
47 ysr old male collapsed on the field. First ALS unit found him arrested in VF.
Shocked 3 times he regained a palpable central pulse.
When we arrived the patient arrested again. VF on the monitor. Shocked 4 times. Mechanical chest…
Paramedic Safety: managing risks in 4 steps
Safety can be defined to be the control of recognised hazards to achieve an acceptable level of risk.
This can take the form of being protected from an event or from exposure to something that causes a health or economic loss.
Safety…
Clinical practice guidelines: cardiac/acute coronary syndrome
Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) refers to the spectrum of conditions resulting from myocardial ischaemia. It encompasses ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), non ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and unstable angina (UA).…
Bike ambulance service comes handy in emergency
HUBBALLI: In order to deal with emergency cases during road accidents and other incidents, the bike ambulance service was launched by authorities last week in the twin cities. And it's tasting some success.
Yallappa Madivalar, an…
Becoming a paramedic in the New South Wales Ambulance Service
Many wonders how to become a paramedic, especially in Australia. In this article, we will report how to be a paramedic in the New South Wales (NSW) Ambulance.