Cristiano Antonino 4865 posts

Let's talk about trichotillomania: Impulse Control Disorders are a diagnostic category that has only recently been recognised, and so we need to know more about it

Emergency Expo, the online exhibition dedicated to emergency and rescue, is proud to announce a new exhibitor: Medjet

Papilloma virus infection also affects men. How is it transmitted? How can it be recognised? What are the symptoms? What consequences can it cause and why is it worth getting vaccinated?

Demers Ambulances USA, Inc., (the parent company representing Demers Ambulances, Braun Ambulances, and Crestline Ambulances) is an industry leader in the global ambulance manufacturing market

Record number of cases in Italy: 220,532 new cases tested positive for Covid-19 (yesterday there were 101,762) and 294 deaths (yesterday 227). This is what emerges from today's bulletin from the Ministry of Health

What is atrial fibrillation ablation? Atrial fibrillation is a cardiac arrhythmia characterised by rapid, non-rhythmic atrial activity, with loss of atrial contraction

Visual halos around lights is a visual disturbance characterised by the presence of glows or bright circles surrounding objects

Guidance on how not to confuse pelvic varicocele disease with other female symptoms. Unfortunately, many women feel immediately concerned when it comes to painful twinges in the lower abdomen

WHO on Omicron in Europe: prediction based on study of current trend

Let's talk about wrist fracture: fractures of the wrist and hand bones, or sprains with ligament injuries of the wrist are frequent traumas, which are easy to incur by falling while performing simple, everyday activities or while doing…

About osteopathy: osteopathic medicine is one of the fastest growing fields of medicine in the United States. In the past decade, the number of practicing osteopathic medicine doctors has increased by 80%, according to the American…

Being pregnant makes women look at the Covid-19 vaccine with some concern. This comes at a time when infodemia, the propagation of fake news in science, is at its most widespread

Chronic pain, the ACT model excels: the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) "rewards" the psychotherapy model applied by the Clinical Psychology Service for the management of chronic pain caused by cancer, migraine or…

The need to network and address paediatric issues globally has become imperative. In this new and complex scenario, Medichild has proved to be a very effective and useful idea for parents

Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare disease that occurs when blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries and the right side of the heart reaches excessively high levels

Bronchiolitis is a very frequent infection affecting the respiratory system

Pfizer announces Omicron vaccine: "also effective against other Coronavirus variants"

Kenneth Horsey's story is an inspiring one for anyone with heart disease: from open-heart surgery to playing offensive lineman on the University of Kentucky football team

Covid vaccines: with 83.2% of the population with the full vaccination schedule, Cuba ranks among the countries leading the anti-COVID-19 immunisation, according to Oxford University's Our Worlds in Data website

Heavy floods have recently hit Jayapura, capital of Papua Province (Indonesia), causing at least 8 deaths and 7,000 displaced persons

Social addiction: an interesting study looked at the most popular of these, Facebook

Idiopathic hypersomnia: results of the international phase 3 clinical trial, sponsored by Jazz Pharmaceuticals and published in Lancet Neurology, showed a clinically positive improvement in the overall severity of idiopathic hypersomnia…

A frightening fire broke out in a 19-storey building in the Bronx, New York: so far 19 people are dead, including 9 children

Covid vaccines for children between 5 and 11 years of age: on 24 November 2021 the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved the indication of the Comirnaty anti-Covid-19 vaccine for children between 5 and 11 years of age, a recommendation…

Child abuse and maltreatment may require the concerted intervention of the judicial authorities, public security, social services and health care facilities

EMERCOM of Russia: “in 2021, fire detection helped save nearly 600 people, including 245 children”

Rescue teams in Pakistan are working to clear roads to a shuttered hill town that hosts thousands of tourists, after 22 people died in vehicles trapped by heavy snowfall

Bangkok's governor orders the capital's 50 districts to carry out ambulance medical transport drills for patients with Omicron covid variant and to take measures to suppress non-essential leisure activities

Cyprus is confronted with a new Covid variant, called Deltacron. It combines the genetic signatures of the Delta and Omicron variants

Swabs chaos: the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases intervenes in the debate about swabs that has developed in recent days

Italy. who does not vaccinate does not risk only 100 euros. In the midst of the controversy over penalties for no-vaccine patients, Palazzo Chigi has issued a clarification: in addition to 100 euros, there are additional penalties depending…

CAR-T is an innovative oncohaematological treatment, based on T lymphocytes, for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphomas and primary mediastinal lymphomas that do not respond to conventional treatments or patients with acute…

Enthesopathy or plantar fasciitis, also known as heelonitis, is a very common type of inflammation, the onset of which can be caused by a variety of factors, including certain habits (such as wearing inappropriate footwear) and sporting…

Let's talk about mesotherapy: muscular contractures, lumbago, tension-type headaches, tendinopathies, post-traumatic pain: these are all pathologies that can negatively affect the daily life of those affected, leading to changes in…

The new Covid wave is hitting hard even in the USA: in Los Angeles putting the world of emergency and rescue in crisis

Covid swabs: 'With the omicron variant set to become predominant, rapid antigen swabs risk becoming useless. The new version of the Sars-CoV-2 virus seems to be able to escape the most frequently used diagnostic tests today"

Let's talk about ludopathy: Impulse Control Disorders are a diagnostic category that has only recently been recognised. Disorders such as pathological gambling, pyromania (which I have already discussed in a previous article), kleptomania…

Romania: Deltamed, the leading ambulance builder in Eastern Europe, has announced the construction of its second plant

Hypertension is a pathological condition of the cardiovascular system that occurs when blood pressure, normally monitored in the overall assessment of an individual's health, is out of the normal range

Abdominoplasty: talking about a toned tummy free of excess fat does not only mean referring to something aesthetic but also and above all to the evidence of an intact abdominal wall, whose muscles actively contribute to postural health,…

Arthritis and arthrosis: the name of these rheumatic diseases is very similar and can be misleading, but we are talking about two different diseases, especially with regard to their causes, i.e. the presence or absence of the underlying…

In Germany, the rescuers of an ambulance of the BRK (Bavarian Red Cross) were attacked on Sunday with machetes while they were helping a patient

The Ministry of Health and the Civil Protection have released official data on the spread of Covid in Italy: the Omicron variant seems to be continuing its ability to be highly diffusible

Firefighters: London has had over a third of its fire engines unavailable as Omicron hits staffing numbers, new London Fire Brigade data shows

Let's talk about kleptomania: Impulse Control Disorders are a diagnostic category only recently recognised

Bardet Biedl syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that causes obesity, vision, kidney, learning, hand or foot deformities

Switzerland proposes Covid patch: definitive vaccine will not be available before 2025

Some cardiac surgery procedures can be performed using a minimally invasive technique. Minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MIS or MICS) aims to perform a procedure which, while maintaining the same quality and safety as a traditional…

Chest pain usually indicates common complaints such as anxiety and reflux. If it persists for several days, your paediatrician can help you understand whether to worry

Adverse effects: Unwanted drug reactions can be considered a form of toxicity; however, the concept of toxicity is most commonly applied to effects due to overdose (accidental or intentional) or to elevated plasma levels or increased drug…

Covid: boom in cases 16 - 19 years old in Italy: in the last week of 2021 an increase in incidence is observed in all age groups

Mole mapping with videodermatoscopy: a more accurate technique that captures microstructural changes in moles and compares them over time

If you think you still have some doubts about sexually transmitted infections, here are 5 things that are important to know and that will answer your questionS

Severe asthma in children: the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of an international study involving more than 400 children aged between 6 and 11 years, in which Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital took part

Meningitis is a very frightening disease, because in severe cases it can even be fatal. And children are among those most at risk

A malfunction of the red blood cells is at the root of Mediterranean anaemia: let's better understand what it is and how to diagnose it

Fourth dose of vaccine for the immunocompromised: this was announced at a press conference by the highest officials of the Israeli Health Ministry

We see moles every day, but we often forget that melanoma, one of the most aggressive skin cancers, can look very similar - at least to the naked eye

Alprenolol is an antihypertensive beta-receptor blocker (also called 'beta-adrenergic blocker' or simply 'beta-blocker')

Toxic shock syndrome is a clinical condition characterised by the rapid onset of fever, skin rash, low blood pressure and muscle pain

Wound infections are generally referred to as surgical wounds. Wounds are never sterile, but in most cases they do not become infected because the immune system is able to effectively eliminate contaminants

No vax and paediatric admissions are the main features of this pandemic phase: in one week, the number of children under 18 admitted for Covid rose from 45 to 66. Overall, bed occupancy increased by 13.7% in seven days

Intestinal obstruction is a complex syndrome characterised by the intestinal transit of faeces and gas being blocked. The most frequent forms in paediatric age are mechanical in nature

Omicron, Pfizer Switzerland chief Bruckner: 'It is not yet clear whether an update against the new variant is needed. We could deliver it in the spring."

The Transesophageal Echocardiogram uses ultrasound to visualise and study the heart. It can be performed on children, but hospitalisation is necessary as anaesthesia is also required

Monoclonal antibodies are the new frontier in the fight against Covid-19 and have been given new options

Back pain: when crises recur over time and become recurrent in the months following the first manifestation, it becomes advisable to consult a specialist: treating back pathologies is very complex and it is necessary to relate to someone…

Long Covid is now a very common condition. The expert explains what it is and what are the most suitable treatment strategies

Diabetes mellitus is a disease caused by the sum of several factors, particularly in western countries. These include, on the one hand, the progressive ageing of the population, poor eating habits and the consequent increase in the number…

Gastric bypass is a hormonal restrictive intervention. In other words, it acts on the digestive tract by reducing the production of certain hormones responsible for hunger and increasing the production of others that increase the sense of…

Irritable bowel syndrome is a functional disorder of the gastrointestinal system in the absence of any other specific pathology causing the symptoms.the symptoms can be different, as well as the causes

Myanmar is in mourning and grief: at least one person has died and between 70 and 100 people are missing after a landslide in a jade mine in Kachin State, the northernmost part of Myanmar. This was announced by the rescue team that is…

Christmas is here, and 2021 is drawing to a close. A complicated year, of hopes and commitments: a year marked, once again, by the Covid emergency

A myocardial infarction occurs when part of the heart tissue is necrotic due to a blockage in one of the coronary arteries, which supply the heart with oxygenated blood

The proportion of the omicron variant is growing strongly in Italy. An estimate based on the preliminary analysis of swabs collected for the rapid survey of 20 December could be around 28%, but with strong regional variability

Molnupiravir is a drug that works by introducing errors into the genetic code of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which prevents the virus from replicating further

Systemic sclerosis, or scleroderma, is a connective tissue disease characterised by vascular changes that induce fibrosis in the skin and other organs and systems

Magnesium: one of the minerals that is essential for the health and well-being of our organism, and essential for the proper functioning of the metabolism, from bone to cardiovascular, muscular and neurological functions: we are talking…

Asthma is a perfectly treatable disease that, if left untreated, can become crippling. It is a chronic inflammatory disease of the respiratory tract, in which the bronchi, when subjected to various stimuli, whether allergenic or not, become…

The first thing to do when talking about arthritis is to dispel clichés: it is not an age-related disease and should not be confused with arthrosis

Let's talk about Christmas Blues . Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old London banker who hates Christmas because for him it's just a break from working, where he can't make any money, at least apparently, is the main character in Charles…

Paediatric cancers: the World Health Organisation publishes the first specific classification for childhood neoplasms, in which the Holy See Hospital was involved

Cerebral stroke is a pathology that in our country affects about 185,000 people every year, representing the first cause of disability and the third cause of death in Italy. If 150,000 are the new cases, 35,000 are those that follow a first…

Voluntary associations are emergency system vital element, and of the health system in general. We met Garda Emergenza, a voluntary association based in Lonato sul Garda

Booster dose boosts antibodies against Omicron variant, according to preliminary data announced today by US pharmaceutical company Moderna

Traumatic pneumothorax is the presence of air in the pleural space as a result of trauma, causing partial or complete collapse of the lung

A sore throat caused by streptococcus is diagnosed with a pharyngeal swab and treated with antibiotics. It can cause serious complications

Transient tachypnoea of the newborn is a transient respiratory distress caused by delayed reabsorption of fetal lung fluid. Symptoms and signs include tachypnoea, retractions, grunting and enlargement of the nasal fins

Heart failure occurs when the heart is no longer able to perform its contractile pumping function, thus failing to provide an adequate blood supply to the entire body

The French Armament General Directorate (DGA) has ordered an additional two five-bladed Airbus H145s destined to equip the Sécurité Civile, an agency of the French Ministry of Interior that performs rescue and air medical transport services…

Emergency Live widens its offer to the world of rescuers, doctors and nurses of the emergency world: from today, the new app is available for iOS and Android

The investment in the new center reaffirms REV Group’s commitment to support emergency vehicle customers and extend the life of their ambulance purchase with state-of-the-art remount services

Vocal cord injuries are more common than you might expect. It seems obvious to be able to speak, but alternating phonation, i.e. voice modulation and breathing, in the right way is not at all

Many people will have experienced a "heart murmur", and this expression is often accompanied by a reassuring tone from the doctor who heard it

ZOLL® Medical Corporation, an Asahi Kasei company that manufactures medical devices and related software solutions, today announced that it has successfully completed its previously announced acquisition of Itamar™ Medical Ltd. (Nasdaq and…

Training, the key element in the rescuer's ability to intervene on the patient. And Italia Emergenza is a leading company in the FAD field: with Emergency Live it becomes an even more convenient choice

Covid infections and deaths on the rise in Italy: independent monitoring by the Gimbe Foundation shows that in the week of 8-14 December 2021, compared with the previous week, there was an increase in new cases (124,568 vs 105,771, equal to…

First guidelines: recommendations on the management of the extracorporeal oxygenation technique ECMO in paediatric patients in an international document published in Lancet Child and Adolescent Health

Discover emergency call handling in 58 countries: the 2021 edition of the Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) report is out

In the last 5 years, the night-time helicopter service in Italy provided by Babcock has grown by 75%. Use of helicopters at night is becoming vital in the fight against time-dependent illnesses, where reduced intervention times are needed