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War in Ukraine, thanks to Smart Medical Aid three additional defibrillators will be installed in public places in Lviv

War in Ukraine, on Monday 23 May, the international company ASBIS Enterprise transferred 10 ambulances to the cities most in need

After its presentation at Civil Protection in Bolzano (Italy), Magirus delivers its first tactical response robot, the Wolf R1: it was received by the volunteer fire brigade of Ehrwald, Austria, at an event held in the mountains of Germany…

HEMS operations are necessary and vital in every corner of the world, including Russia, where the centralisation of medical aviation services was decided five years ago

Sepsis in nursing home patients, an interesting case study from the USA: NPUSA nursing home expert, Amy Woolman, RN recently reviewed the following case involving a patient with a pre-existing urinary tract infection. This case sadly had a…

Major traumatic brain injury (TBI), defined as a diagnosis of traumatic intracranial haemorrhage and a hospital length of stay of three days or more, is associated with an increased risk of incident dementia, although the association is not…

Emotions and the heart: research, conducted with the University of Padua and University of California Irvine, highlights the primary role of cardiac activity in emotional states

One of the most complex fractures that can occur is the fracture of the tibial plateau, i.e. the upper part of the tibia, which, with the femur and patella, forms the knee joint

Headaches are a very common type of headache, which can develop due to very different factors

If the patient complains of swollen feet, there may be an instinct to play down or even crack a smile, and that would be a very serious mistake: they are sometimes a symptom of serious undiagnosed pathologies

Special Vehicles Test Park, the test centre for special vehicles by Emergency Live Formula Guida Sicura, makes its debut with two days dedicated to Orion

Chronic pain can be caused by many different factors. Often conditions that accompany normal aging may affect bones and joints in ways that cause chronic pain. Other common causes are nerve damage and injuries that fail to heal properly

Extracorporeal circulation allows the oxygenation and pumping of circulating blood during the middle phase of a cardiac surgery (performed with a stopped heart), when the heart is stopped in order to, for example, repair or replace a valve…

Ukraine emergency, Odessa representatives of the National Council for Health and Safety bought an ambulance for Nikolaev

Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning occurs when high levels of carbon monoxide in the air cause a buildup in a person’s bloodstream

Burns are tissue damage from hot liquids, the sun, flames, chemicals, electricity, steam and other causes. Kitchen-related injuries from hot drinks, soups and microwaved foods are common among children

Sometimes, shock is difficult to identify in its early phases and the patient can transition into decompensated shock before you realize. Sometimes that transition occurs prior to our arrival to the scene

Tetralogy of Fallot (pronounced "Fallot's tetralogy") also known as "Steno-Fallot tetralogy" or "blue child syndrome" or "quadrilogy of Fallot" (hence the acronym TOF or ToF) is a congenital heart malformation, i.e. already present at…

Summer is just around the corner, and the difference between an EMT rescuer and a paramedic becomes important as we resume tourism and visit places that the Covid-19 pandemic has long precluded

Analgesic mesotherapy is an outpatient treatment involving the administration of drugs to relieve pain intradermally in cases of muscle contractures, low back pain, tension-type headaches, tendinopathies, post-traumatic pain

Adult scoliosis is a deformity of the spinal column in a three-dimensional sense, due to vertebral flexion that results in the patient's curvature both frontally (laterally leaning or true scoliosis) and sagittally (curved back with hump or…

Haemorrhoids are a much more frequent problem than one might think. According to studies, it is estimated that as much as 10% of the world's adult population is affected, and the incidence is prevalent among those over 50 years of age

Automotive Dealer Day, the future of vehicles and the change in mobility also concerns special and emergency vehicles, the core of every emergency operation

Respiratory distress: for adults and children, respiratory diseases are typically just a minor annoyance. For neonates, they can be fatal

Syndactyly represents one of the most widespread congenital malformations characterised by the fusion of 1 or more fingers in the hands and/or feet

Oxygen-ozone therapy uses a gaseous mixture of oxygen and ozone: it has an anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving action. Here is when it is indicated

Emergency Medical Services require specialized equipment to aid in the provision of emergency care. Despite some of this equipment at times being seen on television programs or in news features, what the equipment is and what it is used for…

You or a loved one may have had an accident or serious illness. If so, you are likely to be worried and afraid. Knowing more about the emergency room (ER) can help you feel less anxious

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) treatment does not readily fit into a "one-size-fits-all" plan. Working with your healthcare provider and a little trial and error can help you find your own regimen for managing symptoms

Defibrillator refers to a particular instrument capable of detecting alterations in cardiac rhythm and delivering an electric shock to the heart when necessary: this shock has the capacity to re-establish 'sinus' rhythm, i.e. the correct…

War in Ukraine: two more Mercedes Benz ambulances from Germany have been delivered to the Vinnytsia region

Obstructive sleep apnoea: more than half of Italians snore and almost 1 in 4 suffer from so-called sleep apnoea

Estonia, after a break of two years, the bike-ambulance patrol resumes operations in Tallinn

From Germany an act of solidarity for the Ukrainian people: German philanthropist Paul Klaus has donated an ambulance to the maternity hospital in Rivne

ALGEE is the acronym for a protocol that is widespread throughout the world and is used by rescuers for patients with mental health problems

A rib fracture (more correctly 'rib') is a fairly common injury, consisting of the more or less serious fracture of the ribs of the chest

Let's talk about trauma, and more specifically cardiac trauma. They are divided into penetrating and non-penetrating and it is important to know both

Emergency One UK Ltd is celebrating following a contract with Hérault Fire Service to supply its innovative electric fire appliances and further the net zero goals for the French fire service

Watching an emergency where a stranger gives mouth-to-mouth CPR to the victim raises the importance of using a barrier device

Antibiotic resistance, for the WHO is the battle of the present and the future. In Italy the scenario is tragic and requires changes in strategy

Breast cancer: As is well known, approximately 1 in 8 women will develop a breast neoplasm during their lifetime

It was a historic day in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 14, with the unveiling of the Fire Department’s newest addition to its fleet — the country’s first all-electric fire engine

This year marks the 155th anniversary of the formation of the Russian Red Cross - on 15 May 1867, Emperor Alexander II approved the Charter of the Society for the Care of Wounded and Sick Soldiers and in 1879 it was renamed the Russian Red…

Cincinnati Stroke scale (CPSS) is a pre-hospital scale to assess the stroke probability with three variables included facial droop, dysarthria, and upper extremity weakness

If your loved one has been admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital, this means that his or her illness is serious enough to require the most careful degree of medical monitoring and the highest level of medical care. Some…

Motion sickness is a complex of symptoms that usually includes nausea, often accompanied by vague abdominal discomfort, vomiting, confusion, pallor, diaphoresis and related symptoms

Allergic asthma is an inflammatory disease of the respiratory system caused by the presence of allergens: pollen, dust, dust mites, pet dander, etc.

Folliculitis is an inflammation of the hair follicles, often promoted by retained hair (ingrown hairs), for example in areas of the skin that are particularly irritated by hair removal, often associated with the proliferation of bacteria…

Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue: Widespread muscle and joint pain, feeling of continuous fatigue, sleep disturbances, headaches, memory and attention difficulties. These are some of the symptoms common to fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue…

At the beginning of 2022, a pilot study was conducted and published in the Journal of Primary Care and Community Health on 2 April, which investigated the effects, and differences, in the use of video and virtual reality devices in the…

Is the colour of pee something to worry about? Urine is the end product of the filtration and secretion work of the kidney

The GCS, or Glasgow Coma Scale, was described in 1974 by Graham Teasdale and Bryan Jennett (Assessment of coma and impaired consciousness. A practical scale. Lancet 1974; 2:81-4.) as a method of assigning a score, or level, of consciousness…

Working under fire: the activities of ambulance crews in Nikolaev during the invasion of the Russian Federation take place under critical conditions and great personal danger

Little Makhar is now in Italy with his mother, and thanks to the Red Cross he has a chance of a better future

War in Ukraine, Russian aggressors allegedly used banned weapons such as phosphorus devices during their invasion war. This necessitated the issuing of instructions to citizens by the Ministry of Health in Kiev

Pneumothorax (PNX) is a sudden-onset condition characterised by the presence of air in the pleural space (i.e. the virtual space between the two pleural leaflets that line the lung and chest wall)

In medicine, a fracture is the partial or total interruption of the continuity of a bone in the body, caused by trauma (traffic accidents, falls), pathology (tumour) or stress (from repeated microtrauma in a bone with normal mechanical…

Acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology in children: reports come from 14 different countries, led by the United Kingdom with 131 cases. The number of cured children is 122

Spinal distribution shock: 'shock' in medicine refers to a syndrome, i.e. a set of symptoms and signs, caused by reduced perfusion at a systemic level with an imbalance between oxygen availability and its demand at a tissue level

Airway management in a road accident scenario: knowing how to treat patients in these crisis situations and paying special attention to potential airway problems is essential to provide adequate care

Gilbert's syndrome is a mild and relatively frequent benign liver disease in which the organ fails to properly dispose of bilirubin, a yellowish-orange substance that is produced by the breakdown of red blood cells

Vulvovaginitis is an inflammation involving the vagina and vulva, i.e. the lower part of the female genital tract. There are several causes that can lead to its onset

In medicine, 'intubation' refers to a technique that allows the insertion of a tube into the airway - more precisely into the trachea - through the patient's vocal cords with the main purpose of allowing a person who is unable to breathe…

Eosinophilic oesophagitis is a chronic immune-mediated disease of the oesophagus resulting in predominantly eosinophilic inflammation of the oesophagus; it can cause reflux-like symptoms, dysphagia, and food obstruction

Wasp sting and anaphylactic shock: Before the ambulance crew arrives, the person can do two important things on his or her own, i.e. try to extract the sting by gently 'scratching' with the fingernail at the sting site but being careful not…

Multiple rib fracture, Flail chest (rib volet) and pneumothorax: when a rib fracture is multiple, i.e. affecting several ribs, it can lead to the development of a potentially fatal medical condition, identified by the term 'rib volet'

Proctalgia fugax is a disorder characterised by the sudden onset at irregular intervals of severe anorectal pain that usually lasts a few minutes and resolves without sequelae

Topical therapies (those applied to the skin) are the mainstay of psoriasis treatment. They are typically used before oral or injectable drugs to help alleviate dryness, flaking, itching, and inflammation

Cavernous angiomas are venous malformations, often found occasionally, related to epileptic or haemorrhagic symptoms

To understand the concept of 'code black', it is first necessary to understand the concept of 'triage'. Triage is a system used in Emergency Departments and DEAs (Emergency and Acceptance Departments) to select those involved in accidents…

Ukraine emergency: 13 fire trucks and ambulances with 120 tonnes of humanitarian aid left France for the country attacked by Russia

From the Netherlands seven fire trucks for Ukraine: Ukrinform said this with reference to NOS

A nosebleed or rhinorrhage, i.e. the discharge of blood from the nose, is a frequent occurrence at all ages. The blood that is lost on these occasions always seems to be very copious, so that people are often alarmed to the point of going…

Among the most common forms of anaemia is iron deficiency anaemia, which can affect both men and women of all ages, with an increased incidence in children, adolescents and women of childbearing age or who are going through pregnancy and/or…

Basic trauma life support (BTLS): basic trauma life support (hence the acronym SVT) is a rescue protocol generally used by rescuers and aimed at the first treatment of injured persons who have suffered trauma, i.e. an event caused by a…

Hyperclyphosis is an alteration of the spinal column, a condition that in most cases affects teenagers, who nowadays spend a lot of time with their backs bent in front of personal computers, smartphones and video games

Triage is a system used in Accident and Emergency Departments (EDAs) to select those involved in accidents according to increasing classes of urgency/emergency, based on the severity of the injuries sustained and their clinical picture

The "ABC rule" or simply "ABC" in medicine indicates a mnemonic technique that reminds rescuers in general (not only doctors) of the three essential and life-saving phases in the assessment and treatment of the patient, especially if…

Cirrhosis is a degeneration of the liver, commonly associated with alcohol abuse or viral hepatitis. However, excessive alcohol consumption - harmful as it is - is not the only cause of cirrhosis

In order to offer emergency services the best possible protection during back fatigue activities, the fire brigade in Düsseldorf, Germany, is now using the so-called Spine Support Module (SSM)

Infantile psoriasis is a chronic and generally asymptomatic inflammatory disease of the skin, joints and nails

Pubalgia is essentially pain in the pubic area, i.e. the groin. Over the years, it has become synonymous with pain affecting a muscle group, the adductors, taking the name (rectus abductor) syndrome, because it affects both the upper part…

Folic acid, also known as foline, is an important vitamin for the body, especially during pregnancy or old age. The expert explains in detail what it is used for

Cardiac massage is a medical technique that, together with other techniques, enables BLS, which stands for Basic Life Support, a set of actions that provide first aid to people who have suffered a trauma, such as a car accident, cardiac…

In emergency medicine, the Kendrick Extrication Device (KED) is a first aid device used to extract a traumatised person from a vehicle in the event of a road accident

Hyperthyroidism occurs when the thyroid gland works harder than it should, releasing large amounts of thyroid hormones

Training for volunteers of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society's Rapid Response Detachment took place in Ternopil

Swollen lymph nodes: many lymph nodes are present in superficial locations that are easy to palpate, which explains the high frequency of lymphadenopathy

EDM never stops! In these months we have continued to work on many fronts, new website, new service centres, renewed social pages; we have continued our maintenance work, trying to work with you and for you as much as possible, but…

The term "cervical collar" (cervical collar or neck brace) is used in medicine to indicate a medical device that is worn to prevent movement of the patient's cervical vertebrae when physical trauma to the head-neck-trunk axis is suspected…

Chills are rapid muscular contractions triggered by the body when it tries to warm itself up. They are usually associated with fever or can anticipate it. In many cases they are a symptom of an infection

Let's talk about hypothyroidism: sometimes we may experience a constant feeling of cold, even when the weather conditions or our health in general would not justify this perception. This is particularly true among women and older people

WHO seeks to support people in Ukraine in accessing much-needed medical services. As part of the cooperation between the Ukrainian Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization, 20 all-terrain ambulances that can operate even in the…

Smoking both traditional and electronic cigarettes can lead to the same cardiac risks as smoking cigarettes alone, this is the result of a study analyzed by US cardiologists

For infants undergoing endotracheal intubation, high-flow nasal therapy improves the likelihood of a successful intubation on the first attempt, according to a study published in the 28 April issue of the New England Journal of Medicine

Paediatric hepatitis, the mysterious hepatitis alarm is growing in young children. All the symptoms to watch out for

A gift for Ghana: the Italian Navy in the front line to support humanitarian initiatives in the Gulf of Guinea with material donated by the Fondazione Francesca Rava NPH Italia Onlus and the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Policlinico di Milano

Vertebral fracture: In medicine, the term 'fracture' is used to refer to the continuous breaking of a bone, usually as a result of a traumatic event whose force exceeds the bone's resistance and it therefore 'breaks'

The convoy of vehicles donated by the fire brigade to Ukraine arrived at its destination on the afternoon of 3 May

The term Costen syndrome indicates a clinical picture characterised by a set of primary painful signs and symptoms, such as pain and difficulty in speaking and chewing, and secondary ones, including tension-type headache, cervicalgia,…