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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.
Evaluation of the Benefits and Risks of Introducing Ebola Community Care Centers, Sierra Leone
In some parts of western Africa, Ebola treatment centers (ETCs) have reached capacity. Unless capacity is rapidly scaled up, the chance to avoid a generalized Ebola epidemic will soon diminish. The World Health Organization and partners are…
Hands Off the KETAMINE
China has proposed to UN to add ketamine to a restricted list of drugs, meaning it will become very hard for low income nations to access this effective anaesthetic agent. The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs will hold its 58th meeting in…
The Coagulopathy of Trauma: A Review of Mechanisms
Background: Bleeding is the most frequent cause of preventable death after severe injury. Coagulopathy associated with severe injury complicates the control of bleeding and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in trauma…
MDTHINK - Effective parenteral access for Ebola patients
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa will perhaps be remembered as one of the deadliest viral attacks in history. A recent United Nations press release has warned against even the slightest complacency in eradicating the disease that has left…
Paramedic Law and Ethics Australia, an indispensable guide for paramedic students
Paramedics frequently have to make judgment calls outside the specific framework of protocols or guidelines. When paramedics make a judgment call they would like to be guided by ethical principles and supported by law.
Applied…
Trauma Induced Coagulopathy. Fixed Ratio or Goal Directed Therapy?
Trauma induced coagulopathy (TIC) is now recognized as one of the major contributors to mortality in badly injured patients.
Road to 2015 Guidelines: Chest compression only CPR vs conventional CPR
ILCOR Scientific Evidence Evaluation and Review System
Questions Open for Public Comment
Closing Date – February 28, 2015
Question page HERE
Among adults who are in cardiac arrest outside of a hospital (P), does provision of chest…
Tachycardia: important things to keep in mind for treatment
Tachycardia simply means a faster heart rate than normal. With the sinoatrial node, which is the heart's inborn pacemaker, the intrinsic rate is between 60 and 100 beats per minute. When the rate exceeds 100 beats per minute, tachycardia…
Frozen: 15 of the worst things to do if you're going in Hypothermia
In 2002, a couple of years after he won the Olympic gold medal in wrestling, Rulon Gardner went snowmobiling in Wyoming. “I told myself it would be a short trip,” he told the Associated Press. “We were going to go out about three hours and…
Pericarditis, how to diagnose it
ON ALIEM - By Michelle Lin, MD
When the topic of pericarditis is mentioned, the classic electrocardiogram (ECG) findings of diffuse ST elevation and PR depression are often the focus of discussion. What about the criteria for diagnosis,…