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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.
Chest trauma: clinical aspects, therapy, airway and ventilatory assistance
Trauma is currently one of the most serious public health problems worldwide: in industrialised countries, it is the leading cause of death in the under-40 age group and the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer
Internal haemorrhage: definition, causes, symptoms, diagnosis, severity, treatment
Internal haemorrhage (internal hemorrhage or 'internal bleeding') in medicine refers to a type of haemorrhage in which blood, leaking from a blood vessel or from the heart, pours out and may accumulate inside the body
What is Dysbiosis (or Dysbacteriosis)? It is the alteration of intestinal bacterial flora
When the number of beneficial bacteria in our intestinal flora decreases, the normal balance of 'good' and 'bad' bacteria in the gut is altered and eubiosis gives way to 'dysbiosis' (also known as dysbacteriosis)
First Aid, The Five Fears of CPR Response
Many people share common fear when performing CPR such as causing further injuries, getting sued, breaking ribs, etc.
Hand disorders: 10 exercises and remedies for claw fingers
Difficulty walking, inflammation, pain and discomfort when wearing shoes are the hallmarks of claw toes, a deformation of the fingers that take on an unnatural curvature. It is a condition that, like hammertoes, is extremely common
Blood in the stool: what causes it and what diseases it may be associated with
It may happen that, after evacuating, one notices the presence of blood in the stool. This can happen for very different causes and although blood can be a cause for concern, its presence is not necessarily an alarm bell
Pulmonary thromboembolism and deep vein thrombosis: symptoms and signs
Thromboembolic pulmonary disease' or 'pulmonary thromboembolism' (hence the acronym TEP) in medicine refers to vascular obstruction of the pulmonary blood vessels caused by blood clots (thrombi) that, after detaching from the vessel wall of…
Spinal canal decompression: what it is and when it is performed
Vertebral canal decompression is an intervention aimed at resolving compression of the vertebral canal, which may occur due to multiple causes (hypertrophy of joints, ligaments, alterations to the vertebral body, presence of disc…
The patient's ECG: how to read an electrocardiogram in a simple way
The electrocardiogram (ECG) tracing is characterised by several traits called positive and negative waves, which repeat at each cardiac cycle and indicate the specific activity of the heart related to the propagation of the cardiac…
Melanoma: prevention and dermatological examinations are essential against skin cancer
Melanoma is a skin cancer that can be particularly aggressive due to its metastatic potential in advanced stages of the disease