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Health and Safety
Safety is the first pillar of a good life for emergency professionals, rescuers and Fire Fighters. We are operating in a complex and hard environment. Risk prevention and improving working conditions are fundamental for better health and life.
Emergency medicine: objectives, exams, techniques, important concepts
Emergency medicine is the specific medical discipline that deals with emergencies or urgencies and operates in internal hospital services (Emergency Room) or services outside the hospital, such as Emergency Number
Coronary artery disease: ischaemic heart disease
Ischaemic heart disease is a condition that affects the coronary arteries: their progressive narrowing restricts the blood supply - and thus oxygen - to the heart
Pediatrics, the world's first guidelines for children with Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease…
Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, world-first guidelines for children with common inherited nerve disorder
What is transvaginal ultrasound?
Transvaginal ultrasound is an instrumental test that allows us to assess the female internal reproductive organs and check their state of health
Heartburn, gastro-oesophageal reflux among causes
Heartburn, or acidity of the stomach, is a very common annoyance that manifests itself more often after the age of 50
Cervicalgia: symptoms and how to treat it
Neck pain or cervicalgia, what we often simply call 'cervicalgia', is a disorder associated with inflammation of the muscles, joints or tendons of the neck, which can affect people of any age, and which is related to various triggering…
Colorectal cancer laparoscopic surgery
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide, after lung and breast cancer
What is ocular tonometry and when should it be done?
Let's find out what ocular tonometry is, a diagnostic technique used to measure internal eye pressure, why it is important to monitor eye tone, when values can be said to be normal and when they indicate borderline pressure
Sebaceous cyst: an overview of this epidermoid cyst
Sebaceous cyst is one of the benign skin cysts and can be classified as an epidermal inclusion cyst (epidermoid cyst)
Coronary artery disease: what it is, what the symptoms are and how it is treated
The term coronary artery disease refers to diseases of the coronary arteries, the vessels that carry blood to the heart muscle