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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.
ACLS Rhythms for the ACLS Algorithms
ACLS providers must have the ability to rapidly identify and treat all of the most common rhythms that occur during emergency situations. This document provides the Cardiac Rhythms algorithm. This document will provide you with what you…
Treating Hypothermia: the Wilderness Medical Society guidelines
Accidental hypothermia is defined as an unintentional drop in core temperature to 35°C or below. Accidental hypothermia caused by environmental exposure can occur during any season, even in temperate or tropical climates.
You may delay, but time will not (Treatment Delayed Is Treatment Denied)
Treatment Delayed Is Treatment Denied
Author: David O. Williams, MD
Column from Circulation, 2004; 109: 1806-1808
In 1977, Reimer and coworkers published the results of an experiment that established the basis of reperfusion therapy…
Infection prevention of patients in health-care settings, with focus on Ebola
Ebola is highly infectious, rapidly fatal, with a high mortality rate, but it can be prevented. It is spread through direct contact with body fluids. Here is the report on infection prevention of the WHO updated in 2014
Effect of Prehospital ALS on Outcomes of Major Trauma Patients
Does prehospital advanced life support (ALS) improve the survival of major trauma patients and whether it is associated with longer on-scene times?
Stress exercise test inducing ventricular arrhythmias in LQT interval individuals
Hisham A. Ben Lamin MD
Edwin Tulloch Reid MD
Ernest Madu MD
Chiranjivi Potu MD
Key words : Stress Test , Arrhythmia , LQT Interval , SCD , Syncope , Premature death .
Abstract - From the records of a main public Hospital in …
The HEART score: a defensible chest pain ADP
Dr. Mattu reviews the ADP that he endorses for chest pain patients based on the current guidelines of the American Heart Association. An important topic for all Emergency Physicians and presented gratis by EM:RAP.
Application of the…
Positive Emotion could really reduce pain perception?
Negative emotions are reliably associated with poorer health (e.g., Kiecolt-Glaser, McGuire, Robles, & Glaser, 2002), but only recently has research begun to acknowledge the important role of positive emotions for our physical health…
Survivors of CA with good neurological outcome show considerable impairments of memory functioning
Authors: Patrick Sulzgruber, Andreas Kliegel, Cosima Wandaller, Thomas Uray, Heidrun Losert, Anton N. Laggner, Fritz Sterzcorrespondenceemail, Matthias Kliegel
Received: August 13, 2014; Received in revised form: October 14, 2014;…
Cracking the code to pre-hospital pediatric care
By Peter Antevy MD on Pediatric Emergency Standard
The single most common cause of anxiety-provoked tachycardia in prehospital care is the mere thought of a pediatric call. In EMS departments across this country the fear of treating a…