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Pedal and solar Ambulance: clean energy for african transportation
What about a pedal ambulance? And what about an hybrid vehicle that could be used in tandem? This is the idea of Benoît Angibaud, a designer that address his effort to create an ambulance for the africans rural areas, where it's not so easy…
Are you Chokeables? Know how to save a choking baby with St John
Find out how to save a choking baby with #TheChokeables – the new advert from St John Ambulance.
Pen lid, marble, princess and jelly baby have had enough of being a hazard and they are here to show you the correct technique to save a…
Australian ambulance improvement checklist
This checklist is intended as an aid to all NHS ambulance trusts and their staff to ensure that all possible steps are being taken to improve and streamline the care of patients presenting to emergency care. Although this checklist focuses…
Spencer Day 2015, the international opening event for all First Responders
Spencer Day is the world open day where rescuers, ems professionals, safety services, fire brigades and First Responders come together under one roof to discover the most important news in the field, experience brand innovative devices and…
How long for an ambulance? Predicting the Response Time of an Urban Ambulance System
Response time, i.e., the time from dispatch of an ambulance to its arrival at the scene of an emergency, is an important measure of performance in an urban ambulance system. We developed a model that predicts the entire distribution of…
FAST examination as an important assessment in patient with trauma
FAST EXAMINATION AS AN IMPORTANT ASSESSMENT IN PATIENTS WITH TRAUMA
(Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma)
Authors: Hisham A. Ben Lamin MD. - Chiranjivi Potu MD.
FAST examination is used in emergency Blunt trauma to Abdomen and…
We need more safer laundry pods, to protect children
Poison centers receive many calls each year about children getting into laundry detergent. Swallowing it often causes mild stomach upset, if there are any symptoms at all, but poison center experts say the new highly concentrated…
Burn injuries, 9 rules for the pre-hospital management
1. S.A.F.E approach: as for all pre-hospital emergencies.
Shout/call for help
Assess the scene
Free from danger
Evaluate the casualty
2. Stop the burning process (for example: stop, drop and roll); remove the burning source.…
The utility of advanced prehospital interventions for severe brain injury
This article describes the design and protocol of the Head Injury Retrieval Trial (HIRT) which is a randomised controlled single centre trial of physician prehospital care (delivering advanced interventions such as rapid sequence intubation…
Antibiotics and Airline Emergency Medical Kits
CDC -Volume 9, Number 6—June 2003
Medical events during airline flights have drawn some attention in recently published articles and letters. We would like to share our experience of meningococcemia and meningococcal meningitis during a…