Browsing Category
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.
Clinical Overview: Apnoea and Pre-oxygenation
The purpose of pre-oxygenation is to increase physiological stores of oxygen in order to prolong the time to desaturation during a period of apnoea, a situation that is usual following induction of anaesthesia
Hemodynamic Assessment in the Emergency Department
AUTHORS
Robert Bilkovski, MD - Senior Staff Physician Department of Emergency Medicine Henry Ford Hospital Detroit, MI
H. Bryant Nguyen, MD, MS - Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA…
HDI to conduct second set of dengue fever clinical trials
Nurfika Osman, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Wed, January 29 2014, 9:28 AM
HDI Group of Companies Indonesia plans to conduct a second set of clinical trials this year of its propolis honey-based treatment for dengue hemorrhagic…
Stroke: prospective evaluation of a prehospital management process based on rescuers
Improving access to thrombolytic therapy for patients with ischemic stroke is challenging. We assessed a prehospital process based on firemen rescuers under strict medical direction, aimed at facilitating thrombolysis of eligible…
Questioning the Use of Epinephrine to Treat Cardiac Arrest
"A properly evaluation of the role of epinephrine drug therapy during cardiac arrest now seems necessary". This is the question that Clifton W. Callaway, MD, PhD publish in his editorial column on the Journal of American Medical Association…
Ebola vaccine shipped to Liberia, new experimantal phase start in few days
BCC - The first batch of an experimental vaccine against Ebola is on its way to Liberia. The shipment will be the first potentially preventative medicine to reach one of the hardest hit countries. But experts say that, with Ebola cases…
Ebola update: How does MSF care for patients suffering in Africa?
Dr. Armand Sprecher, Public Health Specialist at MSF describes MSF’s clinical protocols, the challenges faced, and lessons learned during the world’s largest outbreak ongoing in West Africa
Q: Does MSF have a standard clinical care regimen…
NHS spending in England: The parties' plans
Article By Leala Padmanabhan
Health spending has become a major political battleground in the run-up to the general election, as the parties compete to offer answers to the huge challenges facing the NHS in England.
Pressures on the NHS…
Rocketing vaccine cost warning
Article by James Gallagher
Health editor, BBC News website
The price of life-saving vaccines has skyrocketed leaving some countries struggling to fully immunise children, Medecins Sans Frontieres warns.
A report by the charity says there…
AED use in hospitals has not improved survival from cardiac arrest
Mr. John Stewart has been a hospital nurse for more than 30 years, and is the author of the blog, No Heroics: In-hospital resuscitation. He is currently working at Providence Elderplace in Seattle. In his contribution on the Emergency…