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Health and Safety
Safety is the first pillar of a good life for emergency professionals, rescuers and Fire Fighters. We are operating in a complex and hard environment. Risk prevention and improving working conditions are fundamental for better health and life.
Trichotillomania: symptoms and treatment
Trichotillomania is a condition characterised by the recurrent urge to pluck hair or hair. Plucking eyelashes or eyebrows is also part of this disorder
Aslanger Pattern: Another OMI?
In April 2020, Aslanger et al identified a specific ECG pattern concerning for acute inferior occlusion MI (OMI) in patients with concomitant multi-vessel disease, that does not display contiguous ST-segment elevation or fulfil STEMI…
Why is pee yellow? The color of urine and the role of urobilin
Urobilin and yellow pee: urine is composed mostly of water (95%), urea and mineral salts, as well as substances in lower concentrations
Tetrodotoxin: the poison of puffer fish
Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a neurotoxin known to be contained in pufferfish. The pufferfish family is not the only one in which we can find tetrodotoxin, also found in some octopuses and newts
Abdominal aortic aneurysm: epidemiology and diagnosis
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm is a circumscribed dilatation of the aorta running through the abdomen, basically a widening of the artery beyond its caliber limits
Methamphetamine: from drug to substance of abuse
Methamphetamine was born in 1919 in Japan thanks to chemist Akira Ogata who first synthesized it from the plant Ephedra vulgaris
Vitamin D, what it is and what functions it performs in the human body
Vitamin D is part of a group of molecules commonly called vitamins. Vitamins are micronutrients that we take in through food or that our bodies synthesize on their own
Stress Electrocardiogram (ECG): an overview of the test
What is the exercise electrocardiogram? The electrocardiogram or ECG is a diagnostic test performed to record the electrical activity of the heart, so that its general state of health can be assessed and various cardiac conditions, sinus…
Respiratory allergies: symptoms and treatment
Respiratory allergies, like food allergies and, in general any type of allergy, are the hypersensitive result of the immune system to an allergen that comes into contact with the body through the air breathed in
Anorexia nervosa: the risks for adolescents
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder (EDC) that frequently emerges in adolescence