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Animal bites and envenomations pose some interesting challenges to EMS providers
Before you watch the film inspired on true events learn how cocaine toxicity really presents in humans
Michigan EMS leaders share the challenges in locating, extricating and transporting victims of snowmobile crashes
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.
Despite the overwhelming amount of literature supporting CPAP use, very few services use it beyond verification of tube placement
Stow remains under acute care as doctors continue to reduce the medications and watch for complications
Drugs can cause paranoia and hallucinations and have been linked with deaths and hundreds of calls to poison centers nationwide
While I can’t speak intelligently to referral patterns, I am guessing what transpired on this next transport could possibly be labeled as “out of the ordinary”
Only third person in U.S. to survive without immediate antiviral inoculations