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2024 MAY 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Investigators publish new report on analgesics. According to news reporting from Katowice, [...]

2022 DEC 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- New research on adverse drug reactions is the subject of a new [...]

John Bavolacco, Jr., 63 years old and suffering from pneumonia, seemed especially weak on the afternoon of July 5, 1999. So the family--his wife, Lillian, and two of his sons--called […]

This article examines the benefits of physical therapy services provided in hospital emergency departments, focusing on the work of physical therapists at Carondelet Health Network/St. Joseph's Hospital in Tuscon, Arizona. Physicians refer urgent care patients to physical therapists who can perform duties such as diagnosis, adjustments, massage, and medication administration.

Breathing and circulation are two keys to assessing the possibility of a code blue crises. Medical personnel must then determine the impact of their findings and whether or not a patients condition is rapidly declining. If a code is called, initial steps are based on breathing and circulation. Continue CPR until staff members arrive with higher levels of equipment.

Emergency nursing provides not only a rewarding career but also several opportunities to specialize in different fields of the profession. Every type of emergency, whether medical, pediatric or neurologic, broadens a nurse's experience in caring for acutely or chronically ill patients. A medical-surgical or critical care background provides a good foundation in tackling emergency nursing. Other essential capabilities include swift decision-making, flexibility and people management skills.

Background: Prolonged advanced life support for cardiac arrest victims who present with non-shockable arrhythmias in an out of hospital setting is associated with extremely poor survival rates. This and the [...]

An alternative view on hospitals and physicians who might staff them on a fulltime basis as a speciality is presented by two members of the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand representing that society asserting that general physicians should attend patients from admission into ambulatory care. The suggestion is that a hospitalist would need breadth of knowledge about multiple medical and surgical conditions and interactions of problems in various organ systems. Intensivists, although they possess expertise in certain emergency procedures, are not experts in the nonemergency and chronic care of multisystem disease and lack presence at the hospital/community care interface.

The first priority when encountering any field emergency is to assess the safety of the accident scene. This makes a special set of assessment skills and protocols a requirement for emergency medical technicians (EMTs). A dangerous situation may imperil an EMT and result in two victims instead of only one. Safety should be constantly reassessed during the entire rescue process, checking for fuel spills, live power wires and approaching traffic, among others. The second priority at the accident scene is determining exactly what happened to find out if there are injuries not readily visible., What's your first priority at the scene of an emergency? You may be surprised. In my first day of training as an emergency medical technician, the teacher asked, 'You're driving [...]

Mass Notification Systems and EMS: Get Involved Before Trouble Strikes By James Careless Mass notification systems (MNS) are at the cutting edge of emergency response planning technology. Their purpose is [...]

Assessing the Spine By Steven 'Kelly' Grayson, NREMT-P, CCEMT-P, & William E. 'Gene' Gandy, JD, LP Doing a thorough job is the key to an appropriate immobilization decision Management of [...]

Letting the Employees Steer the Ship By Barry D. Smith Front-line focus groups help Reno leaders take cues from their team In the last 10 years, the population of the [...]

Uneasy Rider By James J. Augustine, MD, FACEP An injured bicyclist insists his bike come with him--what's a crew to do? There are calls where the complexity of patient care [...]

Underwater RESPONSE By Scott Tomek, MA, EMT-P Training and safety issues come to the forefront after Minnesota agencies respond to a difficult water rescue At 10:02 p.m. on April 13, [...]

Understanding Refusals By Thom Dick Minimizing the grey zone The dirty blue Saturn is headed east on Highway 9. Well, mostly east. There appears to be something wrong with the [...]

Detect early signs of reactions to sedation During a procedural sedation, your patient is 'always at risk' for having adverse reactions, warns Jennifer Conrad, RN, an ED nurse at St. [...]

Does a patient really need this CT scan? Four times as much advanced imaging, either CT scans or magnetic resonance imaging, was done in EDs in 2008 compared with 10 [...]

Will a STEMI patient survive? New evidence says your actions are key Emergency department delays linked to risk of death Do all of your ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients receive [...]

UNDER FIRE Having a continuity of operations plan will assist in delivering service during an emergency event By Raphael M. Barishansky, MPH You are the director for All-City EMS, a [...]

True Emergencies By Mike Rubin, BS, NREMT-P How would you define them? More important, how would your patient? There's a scene in the film A Few Good Men where Lt. [...]

A visioning study analyzes the perspectives of various professionals from large and small medical centers on the potential advantages and disadvantages of the 3D telepresence technology for medical consultation (3DMC). Findings highlight the awareness of the professionals regarding the possible social and technological challenges in the compatibility of 3DMC, proposed to support visual collaboration between medical professionals to improve patient care in real time, with their organizationsE current mode of operations.

Don't overlook clinical needs of homeless patients in your ED Simple interventions 'can go a long way' Each time a homeless person comes to your ED, you are faced with [...]

Running on Empty By James J. Augustine, MD, FACEP Difficulty breathing is traced back to a poor understanding of medications Attack One responds at 4 a.m. for a woman with [...]

THE Policy of Truth Cover report by Tracey A. Loscar, MICP Death notifications are part of our jobs, but we're rarely trained in delivering them One summer afternoon, as a [...]

Regulars By Thom Dick Every system has 'em Like EMS systems, all coffee bars have 'regulars'--customers who frequent them often or routinely. (Unlike EMS systems, coffee bars depend on their [...]

Don't overlook onset of hypothermia in trauma A 40-year-old man landed in a small stream after a motor vehicle accident and arrives fully dressed and bleeding from the head. Emergency [...]

Down In the Mouth By James J. Augustine, MD, FACEP Sipping a soda has unintended consequences for an unwary picnicker The crew of Attack One has just completed a public [...]

Policy DEVELOPMENT By Raphael M. Barishansky, MPH, & Daniel E. Glick, BPS, NREMT-P Developing well-researched, legally sound policies with true applicability to your EMS agency is paramount You are the [...]

Precursor to Kindness By Thom Dick Are patients like Muppets? You're sitting on a bus bench examining the ugliest man you've ever seen in your life. He's hunch-backed, and his [...]

Presumptive Innocence By Thom Dick Reflections for hard times The woman in front of you is trembling, wobbly, distrustful. Plain and small, she's perched in the middle of a big [...]

A SHOCKING Call By Paul Murphy, MA, MHSA, Chris Colwell, MD, Gilbert Pineda, MD, FACEP, & Tamara Bryan, BS, EMT-P Prehospital assessment and management of electrical injuries and lightning strikes [...]

F is for Failure By Kyle David Bates, MS, NREMT-P, CCEMT-P, FP-C One patient's experiences provide a compelling lesson in cardiac care for EMS providers "134 Main Street for a [...]

EMS Injury Prevention By Bryan Fass Practical techniques to prevent career-ending injuries The time we spend in EMS preparing, practicing, certifying and recertifying for our jobs is enormous. The cost [...]

Hey professor, there's cannabis on my syllabus At least two trade schools are set to capitalize on the U.S. Justice Department's new guidelines on pot prosecution. In a memo last [...]

.table { border: 3px; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: outset; border-color: #98002E} Don't let these terrible outcomes with IV pain meds happen on your watch ED nurses failed to monitor their patients [...]

"Just a Little Pinch?" By Mike Rubin, BS, NREMT-P Some memorable gaffes from those early, awkward patient interviews When I started in EMS, the hardest part of my job was [...]