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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.
Introduction to Advanced First Aid Training
The added knowledge in lifesaving and how to respond to various emergencies are some of the great benefits of taking advanced first aid training
Antipsychotic drugs: an overview, indications for use
Antipsychotic drugs are subdivided into conventional antipsychotics and 2nd generation antipsychotics based on their affinity and receptor activity to the specific neurotransmitter
Remedies and causes of couperose on the face
Couperose manifests itself with reddish, cobweb-like veins particularly on the cheeks and nose. It mainly affects women with an onset between the ages of 30 and 40 and, although it is not a serious disease, it can have a major psychological…
Emergency room red area: what is it, what is it for, when is it needed?
Red Area, what is it? The Emergency Room (in some hospitals replaced by the Department of Emergency and Acceptance or "DEA") is an operating unit of hospitals expressly equipped to receive emergency cases, divide patients according to the…
West syndrome: symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of this rare disease
West syndrome is a constellation of symptoms characterized by epileptic/infantile spasms, abnormal brain wave patterns called hypsarrhythmia and intellectual disability
Long QT syndrome: causes, diagnosis, values, treatment, medication
Long QT syndrome (LQTS) refers to a set of symptoms caused by a cardiac abnormality characterised by delayed repolarisation of myocardial cells and associated with syncope (fainting with loss of consciousness and postural tone)
What triggers bipolar disorder? What are the causes and what are the symptoms?
What is bipolar disorder? What are the causes and what are the symptoms? Comorbidity, trigger events and the value of a multidisciplinary team in the treatment of the well-known mood disorder, also known as bipolar disorder
Gastroschisis: diagnosis and treatment of this rare neonatal disease
Gastroschisis is a rare abdominal wall formation defect disease. It is corrected by surgery in the first few hours of the infant's life
Children at risk of heat-related illnesses in hot weather: here's what to do
Heat and heat-related illnesses, expert advice to avoid risks: educate children to drink and wear loose, light clothes
Croup in children: meaning, causes, symptoms, treatment, mortality
Croup in medicine refers to a disease of the respiratory system, also called 'laryngotracheobronchitis' to indicate inflammatory involvement of the larynx, trachea and bronchi