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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.
ECMO: how it works and its usefulness explained to the citizen
ECMO is an extracorporeal circulation tool that can save the lives of children with severe heart or lung failure
Acebutolol: what it is used for and what side effects it has
Acebutolol is an antihypertensive beta-receptor blocker (also called 'beta-adrenergic blocker' or simply 'beta-blocker')
Altered colour vision: what diseases does it indicate?
When it is not present from birth due to a congenital eyesight defect, impaired colour vision occurs when there is a sudden lesion in the optic pathways that may involve the optic nerve, macula, retina and choroid
Pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum: rescuing the patient with pulmonary barotrauma
Let's talk about pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum: barotrauma is tissue damage caused by a related change in gas pressure in body compartments
Sinusitis: how to recognise and treat it
Sinusitis: what causes it? The paranasal sinuses are cavities located in the thickness of the skull bones, connected to the nose by small ducts (osti) which allow mucus to pass through
The Lancet: Antibiotic resistance kills millions worldwide
Antibiotic resistance, 1.2 million deaths in 2019: data published in a study in The Lancet
Aspiration syndrome: prevention and emergency intervention
Aspiration syndrome in most cases is a sudden entry of acidic gastric contents into the respiratory tract (aspiration), causing a burn of the airways and often accompanied by the development of a critical condition in the patient
Eye burns: what they are, how to treat them
Eye burns can occur after thermal or chemical injuries and can cause serious complications, including permanent blindness
Psychiatrist: 'With Covid, the threat of hypochondria looms large. Nobody feels safe"
Can the continuous alarm linked to Covid lead to an increase in hypochondria? Massimo Di Giannantonio, president emeritus of the Italian Society of Psychiatry: 'There is a danger of self-conditioning and perception of illness'
Cervicalgia: why do we have neck pain?
Treatment of cervicalgia: physical and rehabilitative medicine deals with conditions that require rehabilitation without the need for surgery