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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.
Symptoms and causes of high blood pressure: When is hypertension a medical emergency?
We are talking about hypertension, more commonly known as high blood pressure: blood pressure is the pressure of the blood that pushes against the walls of the arteries
Management of the patient with acute and chronic respiratory insufficiency: an overview
Respiratory insufficiency, in its various types, is a condition that those who work in an emergency must know very well
Caustication, electrocution, heat and radiation: the different types of burns
A burn is an injury to the integumentary tissues (skin and skin appendages) which can be caused by the action of:
Chest pain: what does it tell us, when to worry?
Chest pain - also referred to as pain in the chest - is a very common condition and can be a symptom of a number of more or less serious diseases
Antiepileptic drugs: what they are, how they work
Antiepileptic drugs (anticonvulsants) help treat epilepsy and other causes of seizures. They can treat other conditions as well, such as anxiety and neuropathic pain
Joint pain: what they are, what they tell us
Joint pain is also clinically referred to as arthralgia and refers to any form of pain affecting the joints and surrounding tissues
Interventricular defect: classification, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
After the bicuspid aortic valve, the interventricular defect is the second best known and most widespread congenital heart disease in the world
Conjunctivitis: what it is, symptoms and treatment
Conjunctivitis is the most common eye inflammation, and the main reason why you go to the ophthalmologist. In fact, it affects the tissue most exposed to external agents, the external mucous layer that covers the sclera of the eye
Allergic dermatitis: symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Allergic dermatitis is an inflammatory disease affecting the skin. It is also known as allergic eczema and is not contagious
What is chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (CMML)?
Chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (CMML) is a rare type of blood cancer. In CMML there are too many monocytes in the blood. Monocytes are a type of white blood cell