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Assessing prehospital management and outcomes in patients assessed for hypoglycemia
Waveform capnography provides a non-invasive, accurate assessment of a patient’s ventilatory status
Revamped triage criteria streamline decision making and relieve the burden on hospital systems
The CDC warning on acetyl fentanyl comes as officials in Boston and New York City seek the causes of three fatal overdoses in the past week
Doctors went to the scene and helped free the man, who later was hospitalized in critical condition, after suffering severe head trauma and blood loss
Linda Perez, 18, remains in a coma two weeks after complications during a breast augmentation procedure
A can fell out of the overloaded bag, broke a toe and cut her foot; the wound later became infected and the infections spread throughout her body
Following the current measles outbreak in Texas, learn the signs and symptoms of each disease
Using the mnemonic AEIOUTIPS and other clues from the patient’s medical history, emergency workers suspect a hypoglycemic episode
You respond to a call for an unresponsive teenager while working at a first aid station
Doctors in Miami told the family late last week that the boy had extensive brain damage
Students are proudly displaying health issues as temporary tattoos for their own safety
Cardiac assist device provides mechanical support for a heart in crisis
Sarah has started to walk around the hospital with the aid of a walker and has even gone outside briefly
He injected himself with powerful painkillers like Morphine, Dilaudid, Fentanyl and Versed, and then replaced the syringes with a saline solution
Family members said he was infected while knee boarding with friends in a ditch near his family’s home
Officials believe she got sick after trip to now-shuttered Ark. water park. Amoeba enters body through nose while swimming.
One man took off his belt to make a tourniquet while a food cart vendor placed her severed leg on ice in a cooler
The most severe injury was from a bullet that appeared to enter through the left inside of his mouth and exit the lower section of his face on the left side
In order to hide her misuse, she intentionally damaged and falsified her records, using fictitious names for patients to whom she claimed to have given the morphine to
Doctors extracted the fork free using forceps and ‘copious lubrication’ while the man was under general anesthetic
The hospital is investigating where the infection came from, but the bacteria lives naturally in the skin and throat
It offers the hope that one day doctors might track consciousness nearly as easily as they check blood pressure
The amoeba typically enters the body through the nose as people are swimming or diving
The exercises put stress on dispatchers, the hospital system and on the fire department and civilian volunteers
Your understanding of standard operating procedure may evolve from rulebook to guidebook
Discontinue ambulance, paramedic and emergency medical technician services
