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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.
Foam Rolling for Better Fitness
People tend to measure how effectively they’ve worked out by how sore they are the following days. Let me ask you: How good is a workout that leaves you so sore that you can’t workout for the next 3 days? What most people don’t realize…
Vaccines move to Ebola frontline
Two promising Ebola vaccines will soon be tried on the frontline of the epidemic in West Africa, the World Health Organization has announced.
Trials in limited numbers of volunteers suggest the vaccines are safe and can generate an immune…
New antibiotic could treat infection while dodging resistance problems
A new antibiotic that can kill life-threatening bacteria – without them appearing to be able to develop resistance to the drug – has been discovered by a team of scientists working in the US and Germany. The antimicrobial may be the first…
NHS England’s Medical Director launches search for pioneering healthcare innovators
Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s Medical Director, today launched the NHS Innovation Accelerator programme.
Together with hosts UCLPartners and The Health Foundation, NHS England is inviting healthcare pioneers from around the world to apply…
Surgical Management Of the Failed Airway: A guide to precutaneous cricothyrotomy
Emergent cricothyroidotomy (also known as cricothyrotomy, minitracheostomy, and high tracheostomy) became widely acknowledged and accepted in 1976.
Prehospital RSI increases the rate of favorable neurologic outcome
RSI is the gold standard when we talk about intubation of a spontaneously breathing patient. On Slideshare we publish the randomized controlled trial from The Annals of Surgery about the original study from Australia. Authors are:…
Prehospital airway management, the best articles of 2014
MEDEST118 REVIEW - RSI is the gold standard when we talk about intubating a spontaneously breathing patient but DSI is becoming a classic. And is recommended by Scott Weingart and Seth Trueger, not properly two “new kids on the block”…
CES, the wearable tech will change 2015 healthcare
In 2014, wearable devices became the rage, many collecting data on everything from calories burned to hours slept to blood pressure. In 2015, technology companies and health care providers are looking to put that information to good use.…
All parts of the UK are missing the A&E waiting time target
The NHS in England has missed its four-hour A&E waiting time target with performance dropping to its lowest level for a decade, figures show.
From October to December 92.6% of patients were seen in four hours - below the 95% target.…
Ebola drug trial starts in Liberia
A trial of a potential drug to treat Ebola has started at a Medecins Sans Frontieres centre in Liberia.
The antiviral - brincidofovir - is being tested on Ebola patients on a voluntary basis. People who do not consent to it receive standard…