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Examining cardiac care in the absence of STEMI following ROSC
Celebrating outstanding achievement by collegiate EMS, innovation at the NCEMS conference
Finally, reimbursement for community paramedic home visits on the horizon
EMS is the primary care provider for most homeless patients, creating a range of challenges for medics – from difficulty in getting histories to chronic diseases
Doctors say Dan Anders survived a rare and extremely deadly type of anthrax infection, which they assume he picked up from natural sources on his road trip
For something as seemingly simple as a cervical collar, it is important to remember that there is a right way, and many wrong ways, to use a device
Placing alimb in a cast immediately sets up the potential for reduced circulation
The bees apparently became agitated by a private fumigator who was trying to remove them from a nearby apartment building
The material can be used to help surgeons heal large wounds and create artificial tendons and ligaments
Dr. Schuman Tam, a Greenbrae allergist and immunologist, was flying to San Francisco on Aug. 11 after vacationing in Paris when the flight crew asked if there was a doctor on board
Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) results from severe insulin deficiency and leads to the disordered metabolism of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats
The knee is one of the more amazing joints of the body; it is comprised of bone, ligaments and cartilage, with some nerve innervation
Did you pick the right treatment plan based off the patient’s ECGs?
Studies of near-drownings in cold water have found that survival depends on many factors including a person’s age, water temperature, time spent underwater and how fast CPR is given
The technique requires putting a patient’s body into a hypothermic state with cooling pads that are connected to a machine that regulates their temperature
The chemical was found in a bottle that indicated it was sodium cyancide, and the team on scene treated it as such
Medical professionals said bath salts incidents, which Bangor Councilor Geoffrey Gratwick said should be called “bath poisons,” have increased almost exponentially
We can therapeutically decrease the supply or effectiveness of coagulation factors to prevent or treat abnormal clot formation in certain conditions
The camps give youngsters a taste of what beginning medical students learn — how to suture skin, take blood pressure, put on a cast, insert an IV, type blood
The last known time a timber rattler bit a person in Minnesota was 2000; the last time one bit without provocation was 1996
Hyperkalemia can be a life-threatening emergency due to its influence on excitable tissues such as cardiac cells
Poisoning reports underscore need for ban of chemical-laced products
Forecasters said the combination of heat and humidity could make it feel as hot as 115 degrees in some places
Woman’s daughter was saved by an Australian program that put blood in air ambulances, and wants Canadian ambulances to adopt the program
The Army has had to rethink the way it deals with traumatic brain injury in Afghanistan and Iraq because U.S. soldiers often are targeted by roadside or suicide bombs
Stow’s family believes the public thinks he’s doing better than he is, especially after his condition was upgraded late last month, from critical to serious
Ken Wilkerson, chief of Hamilton County Emergency Services, said the new product wouldn’t necessarily catch his eye
Scorpions aren’t common in Alaska, and the EMTs had to Google scorpion bite treatments
The curse of a busy EMS career is that compassion is the skill that erodes while all the rest of our skills become stronger with constant practice
The second ‘bath salts’ case in the area; in another, the muscles of one patient in his 20s were so damaged that he suffered kidney failure
To keep from bleeding to death each time we scratch ourselves, we need to form clots or coagulate
Patients develop blotches that turn from pink to purple and, once the skin has died, to black. Usually these marks are on the ears, mouth and cheeks.