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Parliamentarians from across the capital and beyond are meeting with NHS England (London) dementia experts to pledge to transform London into the world’s first dementia friendly city. More than 40 MPs and decisions makers will join Eileen…

Who’s most likely to come to your aid if you fall off your bike? Other cyclists, according to St John Ambulance, which has just launched a first aid app aimed directly at cyclists and is encouraging cyclists to look out for each other by…

KARACHI - A five-day course on managing dead bodies in emergency situations was held by the ICRC in Karachi earlier this month. It brought together 32 first responders from various organizations working in the areas of emergency management,…

The Advanced Surfing Medicine Life Support (ASLS) course by the EASD, features a wide array of surfing and wilderness medicine with theory from outdoor patient assessment, diagnosis and treatment of wounds, marine envenomation,…

In conjunction with the Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010, Fortis Healthcare made the decision to train and deploy dedicated ambulance professionals as staff on its ambulances. These EMTs were intended to provide the highest quality of…

The Vortex is a “high stakes cognitive aid” - simple enough to be recalled in a crisis and flexible enough to be used in any context. Our philosophy is to train staff for management of the unanticipated difficult airway in the same manner…

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…

Emergency Medical Services in India has evolved precisely at the right time in 2005. Road traffic accidents and medical emergencies are common in India and road traffic crashes are predicted to result in the deaths of around 1.9 million…

Tripoli (ICRC) – The ICRC condemns in the strongest possible terms the murder of its staff member Michael Greub. The 42-year-old Swiss national, head of the organization's Misrata sub-delegation, was killed by armed men around midday today…

The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) began humanitarian aid missions into the war-torn country of Burma in 1997. The squad risks their lives taking in food, medical supplies, and educational supplies to more than one million internally displaced…