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In neurogenic shock, vasodilation occurs as a result of a loss of balance between parasympathetic and sympathetic stimulation

Chest pain, or chest discomfort, is the fourth most common emergency that EMS professionals respond to, accounting for about 10% of all EMS calls

According to the DSM-IV-TR (APA, 2000), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder develops following exposure to a stressful and traumatic event that the person experienced directly, or witnessed, and that involved death, or threats of death, or…

Loss of consciousness and fainting are the sixth most common emergency to which emergency room professionals respond, accounting for almost 8% of all calls

Epileptic seizures are the eighth most common emergency to which first aid professionals respond, accounting for almost 5% of all emergency calls

Poisoning and overdose are among the 10 most common emergencies responded to by emergency room professionals, accounting for about 3.5% of all calls to the emergency number in Western countries

The strikes in the UK that involved rescuers and nurses had an impact that was anything but peace-making: the definition of an anti-strike legislation

In the aftermath of the first strike by ambulance workers, following the first strike by UK nurses in 106 years, the tension between government and unions does not seem to be abating. On the contrary

Political speculation aside, which we shun like the black plague, the ambulance workers' strike was perfectly successful, and found widespread public solidarity

Staff in the NHS, the Anglo-Saxon national health system, are in the midst of a period of unrest and strikes, and tomorrow it is the turn of ambulance workers