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Intraosseous access, a life-saving technique in emergency shock management

Paediatrics and Long Covid: "Only 5% of children get Covid and of these 6% show symptoms"

Tecnicar has chosen Emergency Expo: the company of Caronno Pertusella (Varese, Italy), specialized in the fitting out of vans for special purposes, is present in the online exhibition created by Roberts

Medevac of the Italian Army: how medical evacuation works in operational theatres

Mediterranean, Médecins Sans Frontières intervenes on the migrant front: the organisation attacks the inaction of European states and asks the EU to stop supporting the Libyan coastguards

Japan, fears for the upcoming Olympics: record peaks of infections in all the country's most populated areas, government extends state of emergency

Brazilian vaccine against Covid: delays in the arrival of supplies hinder vaccination against Covid-19

Virginia Henderson was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1897. She was the fifth of eight children of Lucy Minor Abbot and Daniel B. Henderson. At age four, she moved to Virginia, and began her schooling at Bellevue, a preparatory school…

Ahmedabad (India): The International Nurses Day is celebrated every year on May 12th to commemorate Florence Nightingale on her birthday

The spine board has represented a turning point in emergency rescue protocols: its great versatility has led to its widespread use and growing popularity

Indian variant to Covid, according to WHO the highest number of cases of variant B.1,617, after India, was detected in the UK

MEDEVAC and United Nations Humanitarian Missions saved: the absolute value of caring for people prevailed even in the state of tension involving Nairobi (Kenya) and Mogadishu (Somalia)

The Constantinople Ambulance Station. One hundred years ago Count Jenő Karátsonyi, president of the Budapest Voluntary Ambulance Service (BVAS) suggested to the Turkish Embassy in Budapest the idea that the Hungarian ambulance service could…

Pfizer vaccine for adolescents: the Fda in the US approves the serum with the same dosage as for adults. Start next Thursday

Shooting at a school in Kazan, in the heart of Russia: a 17-year-old teenager was allegedly one of the perpetrators and has been arrested, while a second assailant was allegedly killed by the police

ZOLL Medical Corporation, an Asahi Kasei company, a leader in medical devices development and software solutions for the emergency sector, has chosen to attend in Emergency Expo

The origins of Helicopter rescue: It’s probably considered the most important emergency and rescue service for high risk situations because it makes possible for the rescuers to reach quickly in all security extremely dangerous places that…

Emergency video software: Surrey and West Sussex are the two latest fire and rescue services planning to go live with Capita’s 999eye live video-streaming and location-finding service

The Cuamm doctors on the Covid-19 situation in Africa: "Africa's access to vaccines is one of the crucial points for containing the pandemic. Faced with a global emergency, the only possible response must be global

India is experiencing an unprecedented wave of covid pandemics, and in this scenario some people have thought well (or badly) to speculate: the owner of an ambulance service company has been arrested

Pregnancy, hair before, during and after childbirth: the life cycle of the hair is influenced by various factors, including hormones. And it is precisely the hormonal change that occurs immediately after pregnancy that worries all new…

Russia, Sputnik light and the suspension of patents are the hot topics these days: the new drug is 79.4% effective compared to 91.6% for its two-dose version. And Putin opens the door to suspending vaccine patents

Moderna vaccine effective against Brazilian and South African variants: the US pharmaceutical company says it will continue to update the serum to help control the pandemic

Covid-19 severely affects patients who survive intensive care and treatment even after recovery: diseases related to the effects of the coronavirus are called Long Covid

Biocaremedic is synonymous with safe, reliable PPE that protects the health of healthcare workers and patients

Suspension of patents on Covid vaccines: the US has announced its support for a moratorium on intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines called for by the World Health Organisation (WHO) at the instigation of South Africa and India.…

Unicef on Covid emergency: "Immediate action and strong leadership are needed to stop the catastrophe".

Frederick Seagrave started his business building and selling robust wooden ladders made for professionists of any kind, until one day he realised that his ladders could be used for fire fighting and rescuing people in dangerous situations…

Hand hygiene is one of the most effective actions you can take to reduce the spread of pathogens and prevent infections, including the COVID-19 virus," the World Health Organization says on its website on the occasion of the World Hand…

Liguria, alarming data for cases of type 1 diabetes since the start of the pandemic: according to the study of the Gaslini Hospital in Genoa, in a year have more than doubled the cases of ketoacidosis in children. Doctors advise families to…

Labrador virus-sniffing experiment in South Africa. Experiment starts at Johannesburg airport with dogs trained to detect a positive coronavirus by sweat particles

Covid, Ema: 'Soon to be Pfizer in 12 to 15 years’. According to the New York Times, the US Food and Drug Administration is preparing to approve the vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds as early as next week.

Mariani Fratelli is the history of ambulance fitting in Italy. And they were among the first convinced supporters of Emergency Expo, the online exhibition dedicated to Emergency and Relief

The contract with the federal government was for 100 million doses and it is expected that 13.5 million doses will be delivered by June

A vaccine already used in the previous outbreak has been developed to combat Ebola and has helped contain the spread of cases

The Hall Of Flame Museum: Although it receives visitors from all over the world, and hundreds of schoolkids a year on field trips, and is well-known among buffs of historic fire apparatus, the Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting still…

Tracheal intubation involves inserting a flexible tube into the windpipe, through the vocal cords, to allow a person who is unable to breathe to breathe and protecting the airway from inhalation of gastric material

Two operations to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. This morning the Italian Navy patrol boat 'Comandante Foscari', engaged in the Operation Mare Sicuro (Oms), rescued 49 people on board an overcrowded dinghy drifting in…

Israel, tragedy during a pilgrimage to Mount Meron: more than a hundred people injured, dozens of them in serious condition. The tragedy occurred during the Jewish celebrations of Lag BàOmer

São Paulo Plan: on Saturday, the 24th, gyms, lounges, restaurants and bars were reopened in the so-called "transition phase" of the São Paulo Plan

India is experiencing a dramatic moment because of Covid. Retired military doctors are being called up, and medical aid is being sent from Italy and the UK

On Monday (26), the National Health Surveillance Agency of Brazil (ANVISA) denied the import and use of the immunizer against Covid-19 produced in Russia by the Gamaleya Institute, known as Sputnik V

Migrants between the US and Mexico, Médecins Sans Frontières: "The new agreement between the United States, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala that strengthens the militarization of the borders will lead to further criminalization of migrants…

Civil Protection is a great guest of Emergency Expo, the online fair dedicated to Emergency and Relief: many Prociv sections will have their stanToday we present the N.I.P. (New Intergroup Parma) Civil Protection Volunteers

Fighting covid in India: UK announces more than 600 pieces of vital medical equipment will be sent to India to support the country in its fight against COVID-19.

Covid, paediatrician Raiola (Pugliese-Ciaccio hospital): "They are disorientated, ally with psychologists and child neuropsychiatrists".

Allison Transmission, a leading designer and manufacturer of conventional, hybrid and electric vehicle propulsion solutions, in collaboration with Emergency One (UK) Ltd, the market leader in the United Kingdom in the manufacture, service…

On the night of 26 April, the history of mankind changed, and with it the view of nuclear power: at 1:23 a.m. the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was to suffer a level seven disaster on the INES scale, the highest level in the world

Vaccine against malaria, still a very important issue: the parasitosis transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes kills an average of 400,000 people each year, mostly children

Vaccine AstraZeneca, the UK medicines regulator, has released data on deaths from thrombosis or blood clots in the UK, giving a very revealing numerical picture

Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases and Covid-19 vaccines: to propose a qualified point of view on the management of COVID-19 vaccination for patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) and to identify risk groups…

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome affects 0.02-3% of patients taking neuroleptic drugs, and is characterised by altered mental status, muscle rigidity, hyperthermia, and autonomic overactivity

One by one Roberts, the team editor of Emergency Live, sees the Emergency Expo virtual booth number grow up: the online fair dedicated to Emergency and Relief welcomes Celiani's experience and professionalism

Vaccination requirement: the European Court of Human Rights affirms that compulsory vaccination decided by the State, in order to protect collective health, is not a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights

Near 20,000 people have been directly affected by La Soufrière volcanic eruptions in St. Vincent and The Grenadines (SVG)

Ambulance registrations in Bangladesh have risen sharply, both in the public and private sectors, during the year of the Covid-19 pandemic that has hit the Asian country, as well as the rest of the world

Global Fund report: the effect of the Covid pandemic on the world's poor has been twofold: direct and indirect. The direct one is immediately obvious: rich countries have hoarded vaccine doses. The indirect one is less obvious, but not…

Covid outbreaks in India: shutdown of all non-essential activities, suggested remote working for all non-public companies and significant travel restrictions

Assaults on ambulance staff and violence against ambulance drivers are not a phenomenon of a single country but, in a sense, an epidemic within an epidemic. In fact, it has been going on for many years

Liver transplants / King’s College Hospital researchers find Micro RNAs are key to identifying outcomes for patients with acute liver failure

Brazilian variant to the Covid: according to data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Brazilian citizens are currently allowed free entry to only seven of the 234 countries monitored

Covid-19 and blood clots (cerebral venous thrombosis CVT): Researchers at the University of Oxford have published a pre-print article in which they claim that the risk of the rare blood clot known as cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT)…

Emergencies and 112, EENA meets Italian firefighter Federico Brizio. Federico is a control room coordinator for the fire service in Genoa (Italy). He’s been working in the control room for the last 10 years

Covid-19 detectors in the air, the solution for reopenings? All over the world, including Italy, the big issue at this stage is the reopening of public places and businesses. Researchers at Washington University are preparing a very useful…

Covid-19 and Young people: results from more than 3,000 Marines suggest vaccination remains crucial even in young adults who were previously infected

Covid, Israel ends compulsory use of face masks outdoors: compulsory wearing of face masks indoors remains in force in Israel

Brazil, Medicines for treatment of patients with Covid-19 are lacking: the warning about the low stocks of the so-called “Intubation Kit“, used for the treatment of severe critical patients of Covid-19, was given weeks ago by 18 states of…

Emergency Expo, the online fair dedicated to Emergency and Relief set up by Roberts (publisher of Emergency Live), welcomes with joy the presence of the Regional Coordination of Civil Protection of Piedmont

Mozambique under attack from jihadist fanatics: 'The testimonies are all similar, for months: people fleeing the violence in Cabo Delgado arrive in Tanzania; they are transferred to a centre where they are filed and then taken back to the…

There have been 4600 road accidents caused by drug or alcohol abuse in the last period, with 1331 people injured and 26 road victims. A figure that is on the rise, according to police surveys.

Italy, free and rapid tests in the raliways stations: make testing more and more widespread and accessible

Astrazeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Moderna: comparing the characteristics of the four vaccines approved in Italy to combat Covid

Natural disasters, epidemics and violence in the Great Lakes region (Africa): Democratic Republic of Congo to receive €44 million

Defibrillators in schools. The intervention of the emergency services in schools is not a frequent occurrence, but neither is it very unusual: many children have to live, diagnosed or undiagnosed, with a heart condition

Coronavirus self-diagnosis test delivers results after about 15 minutes and detects all currently known virus mutations

Covid dianosmia: Covid-19 causes many patients to lose their sense of smell and taste. And one in ten still cannot smell or taste after recovery

The opening day of the Emergency Expo has arrived: the first online exhibition dedicated to the vast world of Emergency starts today.

Emergency Expo is the virtual online trade fair that Roberts, publisher of the Emergency Live magazine, has set up for the world of rescue and emergency. Tomorrow morning the "ready to go" for a new and, it must be said, unprecedented…

Pulmonary ventilation in an ambulance has never been more important than during this period marked by the Covid pandemic. The number of patients with respiratory diseases has increased dramatically. It has put a high strain on emergency…

Emergency in Darfur: "Restarting was important; we treat children up to 14 years of age in a key area: Nyala is not only the capital of South Darfur but also the second largest city in Sudan, with a population of over one and a half million…

Brazil, strong increase in young people suffering from Covid: iIn addition to the explosion of cases of Covid-19 since the beginning of 2021, what has frightened health professionals at the forefront of combating the pandemic are the…

Emergency Expo is about to start: on April the 9th it will be online. The virtual fair was conceived and built by Roberts, the communication and marketing company that published Emergency Live

Drone use in major emergencies and natural disasters: in natural disasters and major emergencies, the use of drones to search for missing persons has been a reality for some years now: Mountain Rescue, Fire Brigade, Civil Protection, Red…

Hydrogen Ambulance: Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital and Toyota to Begin Utilization Demonstration of the World's First Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Mobile ClinicPromoting Use of Hydrogen to Achieve Carbon Neutrality and Contributing to…

Electric ambulance - an important step forward for Mercedes-Benz, which has made one of the most widely used ambulance vehicles, the Sprinter, available for the development of a fully electric ambulance.

Telegram and other dark social networks can be a vehicle for dangerous and illegal conduct: more than 4,000 registered users, in this case, for purchases on darkweb. Exorbitant prices: 155 euros for a supposed dose of vaccine and up to…

Covid vaccine sold voluntarily in poor countries: the proposal comes from the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Nigerian economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Use of the helmet reduces the need for intubation by Covid: "This study confirms that SIAARTI is at the forefront in identifying new and better therapeutic paths", stresses President Flavia Petrini

The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) has presented the 2021 Basic Life Support (BLS) guidelines, which build on the 2020 international consensus on the science of cardiopulmonary resuscitation with recommendations for treatment.

The Covid vaccine for children, or at any rate for adolescent paediatric patients, has been a hotly debated topic among paediatricians for many months.

London's 'near-zero deaths' from the Covid vaccine have caused a media sensation, leading to an easing of travel restrictions. In the UK, on the other hand, the vaccination plan began two months earlier than in Italy and the rest of Europe.

The death of Abraham Tetteh Hormeku - Adjei, an EMT in the Central African country, has caused great emotion in Ghana

Pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson has announced that it will supply the Covid Janssen vaccine to enable a major step forward in the African Union's strategy to vaccinate 780 million people.

Russia registers Sputnik Light, a single-dose vaccine against Covid: according to sources quoted in the international press, the vaccine will be used as a possible aid for countries struggling with the vaccination campaign

Dog units capable of detecting the disease through sweat in seconds. If the project is successful, they can be used for Covid-19 screening at large events, cinemas, stadiums, and airport boarding gates

Nurse killed in Myanmar while she was treating the wounded: it happened in Monywa, in the aftermath of the military parade with more than 100 casualties

Butanvac vaccine: the government expects clinical trials of phases 1 and 2 in humans with the new immunizer to start next month, after authorization by Anvisa

D.R. Congo, telling a happy page in the news: the inmates of Bunia Central Prison will benefit from a new ambulance

Covid vaccine, Cuba plans to vaccinate half the island's population of 6 million people by August 2021. Meanwhile, experimental administration of two of its five vaccines

The drug that traps COVID-19 has been discovered in Italy: it is called "I3C" and it stops the virus from leaving the cells. This is the result of an international study involving researchers at the Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital for…