Health

Manila (ICRC) – Over 30 surgeons, anaesthesiologists and physicians from private and government hospitals are participating in a three-day training course to enhance their capacity to treat patients wounded by weapons or explosives. The…

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Associated Press WASHINGTON — Medicare paid $30 million for ambulance rides for which no record exists that patients got medical care at their destination, the place where they were picked up or other critical…

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…

EXETER TOWNSHIP, PA. - Just days after the Muhlenberg Area Ambulance Association handed off the reins to Exeter Township's fire-department-based emergency medical service, the department had its brand-new service model tested last week.…

An interesting study has been published on Procedia about the personality traits that foster professional workers in the ambulance and pre-hospital field.

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.

Three medics who scaled a roller-coaster to save the life of Alton Towers crash victim Leah Washington have won an award for their bravery Army doctor Major David Cooper, 34, and aircrew paramedic Tom Waters, 27, were on duty with…

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. 

Ambulances are not a different kind of TAXI. And the scope of the paramedics are changed NEW ZAELAND DOCTOR - Paramedical organisations say they would welcome paramedics being regulated as health practitioners. Paramedics Australasia…

A woman whose life was considered at risk because of head pain was forced to wait more than an hour and a half for an ambulance, it has emerged. Paramedics reached the 36-year-old woman in Staffordshire in 104 minutes - well short of…