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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.
Security: Could drones be the new 9/11 airplanes?
For years we had thought that only airplane could destroy buildings in a terroristic attack, or carbombs, but never we had seen something like the 2 alerts that create panic in Tokyo and Washington.
In April 21 a drone carrying a…
"No more sacrifice in NHS": UNISON ballot for industrial action against new cost-cutting exercise
UNISON PRESS RELEASE - Hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers, including nurses, paramedics, porters, cleaners, cooks, therapists and health care assistants will be balloted for industrial action if a move towards a seven-day NHS means…
Acute Ischemic Stroke, the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians position
The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Position Statement on Acute Ischemic Stroke has been published in March 2015 on CJEM.
The CAEP Stroke Practice Committee was convened in the spring of 2013 to revisit the 2001 policy…
Advanced Life Support Universal Algorithm: Does remain the same in 2015?
The 2010 revisions about ALS Algorithm and guidelines includes uninterrupted chest compression, less emphasis on airway and breathing, more application of intraosseus infusion of drugs and fluids if IV access is not available and a…
Military medicine, concussion, HEMS: It's all at UCD on 16 May
DUBLIN - UCD will host an impressive line-up of presentations in Belfield, Dublin, in May. The Centre for Emergency Medical Science (CEMS) will host its second Annual Symposium and it’s shaping up to be as successful as the first. The CEMS…
CPR in pregnancy: rules and problems
This presentation has been created by dr. Sunil T Pandya - Head of the Dept. Anaesthesia, Pain & Critical Care in PRERNA ANAESTHESIA AND CRITICAL CARE SERVICES, HYD
The document discussion is about:
Causes of Cardiac Arrest in…
Call management cycle: How to improve your performances, dispatchers?
The call management cycle algorithm is designed to act as a best-practice guide bringing together high-impact changes, both operational and control room based, that can bring about a real and sustained improvement in performance and patient…
Prehospital endotracheal intubation: elemental or detrimental?
Authors: Paul E Pepe1,2*, Lynn P Roppolo1,2 and Raymond L Fowler1,2
1 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dallas, USA
2 The Parkland Health and Hospital System, Dallas County, USA
This…
Emergency Department Algorithm: How to improve categories?
Objectives: The ‘‘emergency department algorithm’’ (EDA) uses emergency department (ED) diagnoses to assign probabilities that a visit falls into each of four categories: nonemergency, primary care–treatable emergency, preventable emergency…
NHS Management information checklist
For NHS employees: Use this checklist to ensure that the information contained in an organisation is being used in the most efficient way. It contains helpful questions to make you think about the way information is being used in your…