Health

(SOURCE: AMERICARES) - As the Ebola outbreak in West Africa intensifies and spreads, pushing the death toll over 1,000, AmeriCares is sending emergency medical aid to Sierra Leone and Liberia, including personal protective equipment for…

EMERGENCY AMBULANCE REDESIGN PART 1 Article by Gianpaolo Fusari  For the past 30 years, ambulances and the service they provide has been focused on transporting patients to hospital with little treatment in between. But the science and…

(CTVNEws) - The paramedic has been identified as William Mallock, who was on duty at the time of the crash. Mallock had nearly 20 years of experience as a paramedic. The plane crashed at about 5 a.m. Saturday morning, Ambulance New…

Article by Gianpaolo Fusari  (READ THE PART 2) When starting to think about designing a new ambulance we had to ask why was this even necessary. The answer to this question doesn’t take very long to emerge. If you were to have a look at…

By Kanya D'Almeida and Mercedes Sayagues Photos from Markosun Blog  JOHANNESBURG/NEW YORK, Aug 13 2014 (IPS) - They say there is a war on and its target is the deadly human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This war runs worldwide but its…

13 August 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today convened a United Nations system-wide coordination meeting in response to the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which is now affecting more than 1 million people in the so-called…

The Rescue March which stands for Rescue Mass Assembly for Rescue & Care for Humanity gathered over 400 participants from the various rescue units in Metro Manila representing the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Local Government Rescue…

(The Argus, UK) - New data from the South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAMB) shows 3,074 people had to wait more than one hour outside A&E departments at the hospitals they serve – including in East and West Sussex and Brighton and…

KIGALI,  August 11, 2014 - Rwanda has placed a German student with Ebola-like symptoms in isolation, and was waiting for test results checking for the deadly tropical disease, the health ministry said late Sunday. The patient is the…

Dr. Liam Quinn @Ldq3Liam Dr Nargis Noori Dr Celia Bradford @celiabradford an educational video about directional tip suction catheter, filmed on the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia. The less acute angle of the Right Main…