trauma

Lets push ahead with Dr John Hinds campaign to get an Air Ambulance off the ground for Northern Ireland. Let's make this a Lasting Tribute for an Exceptional Man. #HEMS4NI

Manila (ICRC) – Over 30 surgeons, anaesthesiologists and physicians from private and government hospitals are participating in a three-day training course to enhance their capacity to treat patients wounded by weapons or explosives. The…

QUEEN’S ROAD (TIMES OF INDIA) -  Seventy-three-year-old Ramamurthy is a diabetic who recently went under the knife. When he experienced difficulty in breathing, he dialled 108 for the emergency response services, and was soon attended to by…

The Associação Nacional de Salvamento e Desencarceramento (ANSD), exclusive representative of the World Rescue Organisation (WRO) in Portugal, hosts of the next 15th and 18th October at the Park of Nations in Lisbon, the World Rescue…

Cervical collars are applied to blunt trauma patients all the time. And most of the time, the neck is fine. It’s just those few patients that have a fracture or ligamentous injury that really need it.

TACLOBAN, 8 September 2015 (IRIN) - “Before Haiyan, all we had on Grindr was mehhhh – four or five people. After Haiyan, boom – white men!” Jericho*, 28, finds it hard to recall much of a social scene in Tacloban before Typhoon Haiyan. A…

First Aid in Sport: medical defence/indemnity unions have made a clear unambiguous statement – pitchside doctors and physios must ‘have the appropriate recognised qualifications, training and experience for the health services they provide.…

Several residents and first responders came to help victims of a one-vehicle crash on Interstate 10 on Saturday afternoon, including a retired Los Angeles firefighter. Rick Camarena, who now lives in Gulfport, said he stopped because he…

Dr. James "Red" Duke Jr. died Tuesday at 86 years old. He was the Houston's iconic cowboy-style doctor who found the Life Flight Helicopter Ambulance System. Duke was a trauma surgeon known internationally because he attended to Gov. John…

RELIEFWEB.INT -July 28, 2015 at 10:36PM Source: UN Security Council Country: Syrian Arab Republic A political solution is more urgent than ever to end this brutal conflict and the immense suffering of beleaguered civilians, says…