Life Form Nasco Basic Buddy CPR

Finally, an affordable manikin that you dont have to clean! The Basic Buddy™ CPR Manikin is a dramatic, inexpensive, and state-of-the-art manikin designed for teaching individuals or large groups the life-saving techniques of CPR. This…

CPR: First Aid for dummies with a simple cover

The First Aid Blanket is a smart creation that will allow people who never learn CPR and life-saving manouver to applicate it immediatly. The particulary of this idea is that it comes from 2 different sides of the world, at the same time.…

Paramed ambulance Toyota Hiace standard

With twenty Years of experience and knowledge in the ever increasing demands for efficient and modern Medical Equipment, Ambulances and Emergency Medical Services (E.M.S) in the Middle-East region, the Management of Paramed International…

ICRC will have an official headquarter in Marocco

Rabat/Geneva (ICRC) – The Moroccan government and the International Committee of the Red Cross/ Red Crescent (ICRC) signed an agreement today that formalizes the relations the ICRC has had with Morocco since the country gained independence.…

Ferguson burning after the St. Louis grand jury decision

Riots start in Ferguson and in other cities, as New York, after a St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict officer Darren Wilson, 28, for firing six shots in an August confrontation that killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. The situation…

Medicaid, civil disobedience and Physicians

Civil Disobedience and Physicians — Protesting the Blockade of Medicaid Charles van der Horst, M.D. on  NEJM On May 6, 2013, I was arrested by the North Carolina Capitol Police in front of the doors of the state Senate chamber, protesting…

Future of Health, the NHS ideas about patients and carers

On the eve of the 2014 Future of Health Conference, NHS England’s Director for People with Long Term Conditions, Dr Martin McShane, explains why empowering patients is vital: "I was speaking at a conference last week and was introduced to…

Pediatric Procedural Sedation with Ketamine

The EM blogosphere has been abuzz with talk of ketamine the past week or so. We stated in the 4th LITFL Review that “an irrational fear of ketamine’s “bite” makes it  one of the most under-rated drugs in the ED doc’s arsenal.” Emergency…

How to manage your end-of-life wishes?

Dr. Richard Feldman for Indystar.com - Advanced directives are an important set of legal documents that communicate one's wishes for treatment during life-limiting or terminal illness. They're designed for use when one is unable to…

How doctors choose end-of-life?

When it comes to dying, doctors are ultimately no different from the rest of us. And their emotional and physical struggles are surely every bit as wrenching. But they have a clear advantage over many of us. They've seen death up close.…

The 2014 NHS Number Survey Report

The ability to provide safe, urgent and integrated care is fundamental to the future delivery of the health and social care system. We need information to follow the patient along their pathway, so clinicians and patients can have access to…

Bird Flu comes to Britain

Chief Veterinary Officer, Nigel Gibbens, warns wild birds are at threat from the disease as he asks people to be alert for symptoms in animals Wild birds across the UK are now at threat from bird flu after an outbreak at a duck breeding…

Liberia will not extend the State of Emergency

The decision after the progress Liberia have gained fighting the outbreak. Liberia will fight against the virus until it will be finally eradicated from the country Since March of this year, our nation has been stricken by an unprecedented…

Fears that Ebola crisis will set back malaria fight

A leading malaria control expert has said efforts to contain the disease may be jeopardised by the Ebola crisis Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré, who heads the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, said after visiting west Africa: "Understandably,…

Nigeria is free of Ebola transmission

The end of an Ebola virus disease outbreak in a country can be declared once 42 days have passed and no new cases have been detected The Ebola virus was introduced into Nigeria on 20 July 2014 when an infected Liberian man arrived by…

The Plainclothes Man at Ebola Scene in Dallas (VIDEO)

What is doing a man wearing slacks, shirt and sunglasses near an ebola patient and 4 people wearing full protective suite? He's overseen that all the things gone well, said the Phoenix Air vice-president Randy Davis. But it's not so good as…

More paramedics quitting NHS jobs

Increasing numbers of paramedics are leaving NHS ambulance services, according to figures obtained by the BBC. Senior staff say remaining paramedic crews are under greater pressure than ever before to meet demand. At least 1,015 paramedics…

Drowning Resuscitation for Surfers

The European Association of Surfing Doctors introduce to you Andrew Schmidt, Emergency Medicine Physician, Director of Lifeguards without borders lecturing all around the world on Drowning The surf world was shocked when two surfers drowned…

5 ways pharma can incorporate digital technologies

Few would argue that today digital technology represents a critical part of marketing in any business sector. Though all health care stakeholders are usually late to the technology table, market and customer pressure are rapidly…

Training Tips: Mummified! (The Triangular bandages)

A fun and effective way to end your bandaging training sessions that will leave your students' hearts pounding For the Filipino rescuers, the only equipment more versatile than triangular bandages are their brains. The T-bandages' uses are…

Eruption of Mount Ontake, 48 body recovered, LIVE NEWS

On Mount Ontake, the only warning hikers received on Saturday was a loud boom, “like thunder,” minutes before a massive ashcloud overtook the mountain. Firefighters and members of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces conduct a rescue operation at an…

VERMAC: Coconut for treatment in burn injuries

A newly developed burn dressing gives patients a lower cost option to complete their treatment A newly developed wound dressing composed of coconut based cellulose and monolaurin for the first aid and treatment of burn injuries. The idea…

First Ebola case diagnosed in US confirmed

The United States has its first confirmed case of the Ebola virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday, marking the first domestic appearance of the deadly virus that has ravaged swaths of continental Africa. The…

Why do you need airbag protection during rescue?

Today’s vehicles pose many risks for First Responders. For rist, unexploded airbag could seriously injury firefighters or paramedics. This manufactures are installed in multiple parts of the chassis. We must to remember that frontal airbag…

Red Cross opens Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone

Freetown, 15 September 2014 - The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has opened its first Ebola treatment centre in Kenema, Sierra Leone, one of the districts worst affected by the deadly outbreak. “This…

Odile downgraded to Tropical Storm

LOS CABOS, MEXICO - The Hurricane Odile was downgraded to tropical storm on monday evening. The wheater front pushed up Mexico's Baja California Peninsula early Tuesday, dumping heavy rains that could bring dangerous flash floods and…

Impact and costs of Dementia in the UK

Dementia costs the UK £26.3 Billion a year. The Alzheimer's Society said that fighting dementia economic's impact is strong enough than cover the annual energy bill of every household in the country. Two thirds of the cost of dementia is…

Bomb blast in Santiago metro station, Chile

A bomb blast in Santiago, Chile, on monday afternoon, in the metro station "Escuela Militar", in the shopping quarter of Las Codnes. The explosion occurred at lunchtime. The act is under investigation. Investigator suspect a terroristic…

Firefighters rescue a driver trapped in a flooded wash

PHOENIX (Associated Press) - A driver was rescued in Phoenix after his car got trapped in a flooded wash on Monday. It happen in North Phoenix, at 7ht Avenue and Coral Gabled Drive, an area that usually floods when it rains. Firefighters…

Ebola vaccine is near to come

Ebola is an extremely serious and often fatal viral infection thst can cause internal bleeding and organ failure. It can be spread via contaminated body fluids such as blood and vomit. Researchers tested vaccines based on chimpanzee…

CPR: 4 rules you can't forget

Do's and don'ts of administering CPR is the title of a really interesting lesson that Fox News broadcast on July. Erin Tolbert, a certified Famili Nurse Practicioner who found the midlevely.com blog, explain the basical rules of CPR that…

Thailand, flood and landslide emergencies continue

China dum will run-off a large amount of water after the terrible flash floods that hits south-east Asia in past days. The Jinghong Dam in China's Yunnan province is nearing capacity due to heavy rainfall, which could lead it to release…

Thousands of people said no to privatisation of NHS

The protest march against privatisation of health services in England, started three weeks ago from South Tyneside, ended saturday at Trafalgar Square. With the partecipation of 5,000 people, who take part in the last leg from Holborn, the…

The Spencer FXA Pro ankle immobilizer

Functionality and safety are the main distinguishing characteristics of products made by Spencer, the well-known Collecchio-based Italian company that has been manufacturing items for the emergency sector for years: a company that deserves…

Bosnia, 29 miners rescued in Zenica, Bosnia Hertzegovina

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Associated Press) - One by one, rescue workers pulled 29 miners out of a trouble-plagued coal mine Friday after it had collapsed a day earlier in central Bosnia. Officials halted rescue efforts, believing that five men…

Ebola spreads on West Africa with a significant mutation

Thanks to an international team of researchers, Ebola outbreak has a real-time coverage on the scientific community. MSF and the other ONG follow the spread of the outbreak, by sequencing the virus’ genome from people in Sierra Leone. Now…

Find Ashya now! Police push for a web mobilization

British Police have launched a web mobilization with a social media campaing to find Ashya King, a sick 5-years-old boy, with a brain tumour, taken from the Southampton General Hospital by his parents, without any kind of consention from…

Is sugar causing the obesity 'epidemic'?

Sugar hit the headlines last week when the Daily Mail and The Independent led with the quote “Sugar is the new tobacco”. Many news outlets focused on a reported link between high sugar consumption and the rise inobesity and diabetes. The…

New products and solutions at PrevenRio 2014

The most important technologies about rescue and emergency have been exposed in Brazil, at the PrevenRio Expo in Rio de Janeiro. Professionals and international buyers had a direct touch with research and development of new products,…

Combined Pill may raise breast cancer risk

The combined pill contains oestrogen and, as it is known oestrogen can stimulate breast cancer cells to grow, the potential for extra oestrogen to increase the risk of breast cancer has been recognised for some time. However, any increase…

India: temple stampede kills 10 pilgrims

At least 10 people have been killed in a stampede at a Hindu festival in central India, local officials say. Rope barriers set up to contain thousands of Hindu pilgrims during parikrama of Kamadgiri hill gave way on Monday morning,…

Strange Crash: Car Falls Out of Parking Structure

On August 15, 2014, a 72 year old man with a history of heart problems suffered a cardiac episode while he was manuvering his car in a parking structure in a busy commercial district of Greenhills, San Juan City. This happened at between…