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Getting nurse staffing levels wrong in hospitals is linked to excess mortality and poor patient experiences but establishing the safe levels in the emergency department (ED) is challenging because patient demand is so variable.

PARMA - A new technological revolution is about to change transporting patients in ambulance. Spencer Italia, the international leader in production of emergency medical devices is about to show an exclusive innovation in the field of…

QUEEN’S ROAD (TIMES OF INDIA) -  Seventy-three-year-old Ramamurthy is a diabetic who recently went under the knife. When he experienced difficulty in breathing, he dialled 108 for the emergency response services, and was soon attended to by…

What to do to have a better outcome in stroke patients? One of the solutions will start from the analysis of the patient delay in entering hospitals with stroke symptoms.

The Resuscitation Journal published on September an Open Access article to summarise the evidence from randomized controlled trials of mechanical chest compression devices used during resuscitation after out of hospital cardiac arrest. 

BMJ CAREERS - Rudeness in medical teams harms clinical performance and could have “potentially devastating” consequences for patients, a study has found. The Israeli study looked at the performance of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)…

Lower may be better for kidney diseases and heart disease when treating high blood pressure, federal health officials said when announcing they were ending a major study more than a year early due to “potentially lifesaving information.”

About 200 participants from ten countries convened at the SAMARITAN Forum in Bolzano from 28th to 29th of August 2015 This year’s international Samaritan Forum was focused on innovation in first aid and rescue. The participants also…

Heart-attack patients whose ambulances were diverted from crowded emergency rooms to hospitals farther away were more likely to be dead a year later than patients who weren't diverted, according to a recent study published in the journal…

Preventing sudden cardiac deaths in young athletes is grabbing headlines as state legislatures and the NCAA tackle the issue with new urgency. But a big group of people is missing from the growing debate: young people who don’t participate…