Health

Today in #FOAMED we share with you the AHA Clinical Perspective published on December, 2012, about Chest Compression compared with Standard CPR. Medical community are waiting the official release of the 2015 AHA / ILCOR CoSTR Resuscitation…

Two promising Ebola vaccines will soon be tried on the frontline of the epidemic in West Africa, the World Health Organization has announced. Trials in limited numbers of volunteers suggest the vaccines are safe and can generate an immune…

A&E waits in England are at their worst level for a decade with the four-hour target now being missed - as it is elsewhere in the UK. Pressures have become so great that a number of hospitals have had to declare major incidents, calling…

Suicide is not the option for matrics who have failed; help is at hand. With the matric results set to be released next week, Head of the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health Dr Sibongile Zungu has appealed to matric pupils who have failed…

A new antibiotic that can kill life-threatening bacteria – without them appearing to be able to develop resistance to the drug – has been discovered by a team of scientists working in the US and Germany. The antimicrobial may be the first…

An ambulance crew was forced to wait in a lay-by for 20 minutes as they fought to save a dying man after being denied access to both Withybush and Glangwili hospitals, the Western Telegraph has learned. A source, who cannot be named, said…

Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s Medical Director, today launched the NHS Innovation Accelerator programme. Together with hosts UCLPartners and The Health Foundation, NHS England is inviting healthcare pioneers from around the world to apply…

Emergent cricothyroidotomy (also known as cricothyrotomy, minitracheostomy, and high tracheostomy) became widely acknowledged and accepted in 1976.

RSI  is the gold standard when we talk about intubation of a spontaneously breathing patient. On Slideshare we publish the randomized controlled trial from The Annals of Surgery  about the original study from Australia. Authors are:…

In 2014, wearable devices became the rage, many collecting data on everything from calories burned to hours slept to blood pressure. In 2015, technology companies and health care providers are looking to put that information to good use.…