Paramedic

A guide has been published by the European Commission providing practical examples to reduce workers' exposure to dangerous medicines at all stages of their cycle: production, transport and storage, preparation, administration to patients…

Across Russia, from Sochi to Vladivostok, today is Ambulance Worker's Day Why is 28 April Ambulance Worker's Day in Russia? This celebration has had two phases, a very long unofficial one: On 28 April 1898, the first organised ambulance…

The law of the Good Samaritan exists in practically every Western country and in many Asian countries, with different declinations and peculiarities

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the pulse oximeter (or saturation meter) was only widely used by ambulance teams, resuscitators and pulmonologists

Electronic vital sign monitors have been common in hospitals for more than 40 years. On TV or in movies, they start making noises, and doctors and nurses come running, yelling things like “stat!” or “we are losing it!”

Ventilators are medical devices used to assist the breathing of patients in out-of-hospital care, intensive care units (ICUs), and hospital operating rooms (ORs)

On 28 February 2023, Falck’s first electric ambulance will leave the station in Copenhagen, Denmark

Intubation is a procedure that can help save a life when someone can’t breathe

Climate change and disaster management have heightened the importance of protocols relating to hypothermia emergencies, which must be known by the rescuer also for the management of everyday life

In neurogenic shock, vasodilation occurs as a result of a loss of balance between parasympathetic and sympathetic stimulation