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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.
Paranoid personality disorder: what it is and how to deal with it
Paranoid Personality Disorder is characterised by a persistent and unwarranted tendency to interpret the intentions and actions of others as evil (paranoia)
Aortic stenosis, what is it and what are the consequences?
Also called aortic valvular stenosis, aortic stenosis occurs when the aortic valve (one of the four heart valves) becomes obstructed or narrowed
Cubital tunnel syndrome, what is it?
Cubital tunnel syndrome is a condition that affects the ulnar nerve, and consists of its compression or traction. The sufferer experiences a pain in the elbow that can have a more or less severe intensity
Heart health: what are the cardiovascular risk factors?
Cardiovascular risk factors are generally related to cardiovascular diseases. These factors are divided into modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors
Spondylolisthesis: what is it?
The medical term spondylolisthesis refers to a pathological condition characterised by a slow but progressive and constant displacement of a vertebra with respect to the vertebra underneath
Lumbar stenosis: definition, causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
Lumbar stenosis is a narrowing of the vertebral canal in the lumbosacral spine. This disorder can lead to changes in the spine that can generate excessive pressure on the nerve roots, causing intense pain
Haemospermia or haematospermia: what does it mean if you find blood in your sperm?
Haemospermia or haematospermia - the presence of blood in semen - is an event that occurs as a result of the rupture of certain blood vessels along the tract that semen travels during ejaculatory phenomenon
Injury to the brain or spinal cord: what is meant by spasticity?
From the Greek spasmos ('cramp'), the word 'spasticity' indicates a disproportionate increase in muscle tone, and is a clinical sign caused by an injury to the encephalon or spinal cord
Systemic sclerosis: definition, causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
Diffuse fibrosis and vascular abnormalities in the skin, joints and internal organs are some of the consequences of systemic sclerosis, a rare connective tissue disease whose multifactorial genesis continues to generate questions and doubts…
Cardiac arrhythmias: long QT cardiac syndrome
Long QT syndrome is a cardiac pathology, attributable to the family of heart arrhythmias
When the patient has a long QT, it means that his normal ventricular contraction is impaired and he lengthens.
Since the pathology is rather rare,…