Health

UNISON PRESS RELEASE - Hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers, including nurses, paramedics, porters, cleaners, cooks, therapists and health care assistants will be balloted for industrial action if a move towards a seven-day NHS means…

THE MOSCOW TIMES - Changes to the Russian national health care system have proceeded according to an obscure logic and led to very mixed results for medical personnel — and sometimes to lethal results for patients. The authorities wanted…

Overdose is common among persons who use illicit opioids such as heroin and among those who misuse medications prescribed for pain, such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, and morphine. The incidence of opioid overdose is rising nationwide. For…

The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Position Statement on Acute Ischemic Stroke has been published in March 2015  on CJEM. The CAEP Stroke Practice Committee was convened in the spring of 2013 to revisit the 2001 policy…

ANN ARBOR, MI, USA – March 5, 2015 – Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability in healthcare information technology with members in 55 countries, today announced the appointment of Patricia Van…

DUBLIN - UCD will host an impressive line-up of presentations in Belfield, Dublin, in May. The Centre for Emergency Medical Science (CEMS) will host its second Annual Symposium and it’s shaping up to be as successful as the first. The CEMS…

AUTHORS Lisa Mellon 1 Frank Doyle 1 Daniela Rohde1 David Williams2 Anne Hickey1 1 - Department of Psychology, RoyalCollege of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin,Ireland; 2 - Department of Geriatric andStroke Medicine, Royal College…

This checklist is intended as an aid to all NHS ambulance trusts and their staff to ensure that all possible steps are being taken to improve and streamline the care of patients presenting to emergency care. Although this checklist focuses…

Authors: Paul E Pepe1,2*, Lynn P Roppolo1,2 and Raymond L Fowler1,2 1 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dallas, USA 2 The Parkland Health and Hospital System, Dallas County, USA This…

Objectives: The ‘‘emergency department algorithm’’ (EDA) uses emergency department (ED) diagnoses to assign probabilities that a visit falls into each of four categories: nonemergency, primary care–treatable emergency, preventable emergency…