Health and Safety

Chest injuries are responsible for 25% of all traumatic deaths annually. It is important for all EMS providers to be suspicious and vigilant when faced with a chest trauma patient

Pediatric obstructive sleep apnea is a sleep disorder in which your child's breathing is partially or completely blocked repeatedly during sleep

Tension headache is a rather common type of headache characterised by persistent, non-pulsating pain of mild to medium intensity, usually affecting the back of the head (occipital region)

Ankle arthrosis is a condition that affects older people in particular: the cartilage degenerates with advancing age

The normal heart is positioned on the centre/left side of the chest and has the apex (i.e. the tip) pointing to the left

C Reactive Protein (CRP), so called because of its reactivity with the Pneumococcus C polysaccharide molecule, is a protein synthesised by the liver whose concentration increases in the blood following an inflammatory process caused by an…

Bronchiectasis is a chronic respiratory disease characterised by an abnormal and irreversible dilatation of certain portions of the bronchial tree with a consequent loss of proper mucociliary clearance function

Onychophagia, many children and adolescents engage in this behaviour. To encourage them to stop, psychologists advise parents to explain the risks to them

Essential blepharospasm is an involuntary contraction that causes intermittent and often complete closure of the eyelids

About blood cell: your body produces white blood cells (leukocytes), which help fight bacterial infections, viruses and fungi