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The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) set out its intentions to purchase new ambulances earlier this year and 120 replacements are now in use. The planned completion of the roll-out was the end of June, and EEAST Chief…

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…

(PUBLIMED) - Emergency providers are among the first in health care to experiment with Google Glass, a computer that is worn like a traditional set of glasses, enabling clinicians to pull up critical information from a patient's electronic…

An RAF parachutist with the Falcons display team missed his drop zone at an air show in Weston-super-Mare today, landing directly on a burger van surrounded by crowds of spectators. An 82-year-old woman was hurt during the collision at…

In a New Zealand first, a hybrid ambulance-fire truck will be trialled to see if it will improve emergency services in remote communities. The prototype fire medical vehicle (FMV) was developed by New Zealand Fire Service (NZFS) and St.…

Writed by Tzu-Ching Wu, Claude Nguyen, Christy Ankrom, Julian Yang, David Persse, Farhaan Vahidy, James C Grotta, Sean I Savitz From the Department of Neurology, University of Texas-Health Science Center at Houston (T.-C.W., C.N., C.A.,…

Cbs reports that Stacey Yepes of Thornhill, Ontario, went to the emergency room after she felt numbness in her face and had trouble speaking. After tests doctors told her the symptoms were a result of stress. Three hours later she felt the…

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…

Kyrgyzstan have 85 new units of ambulance cars. Equipped by Spencer, the UAZ vehicles now serve all the district of the Bishkek district. The Kyrgyzstan Prime Minister Jantoro Satybaldiyev took part in ceremony of handing over of the…