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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.
Anaesthesia Trauma & Critical Care COURSE MANUALS 2014
The ATACC association has published the 8th edition of the Anaesthesia Trauma and Critical Care course manual, in a free pdf format FOAMED.
Trauma remains one of the major killers in our modern society. Improved medical care enables us…
Diabetes: a biochip will measure glucose by human saliva
Rearchers from Brown University have developed a new biochip sensor that can selectively measure concentrations of glucose in a complex solution similar to human saliva. The advance is an important step toward a device that would enable…
CPRweek, Two steps to staying alive with CPR
Most people who experience cardiac arrest at home, work or in a public location die because they don't receive immediate CPR from someone on the scene. As a bystander, don't be afraid. Your actions can only help. When calling 911, you will…
Japan NGO helps Yolanda thyphoon victims
TOKYO - A Japanese non-government organization has committed to provide relief goods and medical-dental services to 3,000 displaced families who sought refuge in Metro Manila after the havoc wrought last year by Typhoon Yolanda.The Japan…
Scientists predict dengue risk for Brazil World Cup
A potentially dangerous fever caused by a virus for which there is no vaccine or cure, dengue is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito when it takes a blood meal. Doctors last year sounded the alarm over dengue at the June 12-July 13…
The Paramedic's Diary - Abandonment
Stuart Gray is the Paramedic's Diary blogger. On May, 26th, he write this touching post about people who have been abandoned, and that paramedics recovers all around the London's corners:
It's not a word used very often, and when it…
23 families affected by tsunami, suing local authorities
(THE TELEGRAPH) - The families of 23 children who died after they were swept away during Japan’s 2011 tsunami are suing the authorities over their failure to swiftly evacuate pupils. The victims attended Okawa School in Ishinomaki,…
The most injured worker in Australia? Paramedics
Paramedics are seven times more likely to be injured on the job than the average Australian worker, with many hurt in violent attacks, new research has found.
The research's co-author, Professor Brian Maguire from Central Queensland…
Red Cross 2013: A strong response to complex crises
Geneva (ICRC) – The devastating effects of acute crises that emerged at the end of 2013 in South Sudan and the Central African Republic are still being felt. The conflict in Syria has assumed the proportions of a catastrophe, with…
Short Circuit fire in Malaysia, The Fire Department alerts population
MALAYSIA - Be careful with melted wires in Malaysia. The short circuit is the first causes who started the fire, The Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) here recorded fewer fire related cases during the first four months of this year…