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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.
Electrical cardioversion: what it is, when it saves a life
Electrical cardioversion, CVE, is a therapeutic procedure used to restore normal heart rhythm in patients with atrial fibrillation, flutter, or tachycardia and in whom pharmacological cardioversion has failed
Let's talk about flat foot: what problems does it cause?
Flat foot - from the Latin pes planus - is a dysmorphism that occurs with altered anatomical relationships of the foot, in particular with the characteristic reduction or total disappearance of the plantar arch with consequent enlargement…
Peritonitis: definition, causes, symptoms, diagnosis, types and treatment
Peritonitis is an inflammation of the serosa (called 'peritoneum') that lines the viscera and abdominal cavity, usually due to bacterial contamination
Semeiotics of the heart and cardiac tone: the 4 cardiac tones and the added tones
Cardiac tones are short, transient acoustic events, produced by the opening and closing of valves; they are divided into systolic and diastolic tones
Kidney diseases, kidney ballot manoeuvre: what it is, how it is performed and what it is used for
The kidney ballot maneuver is a technique used in medical semeiotics to appreciate the abnormal displacement of an organ, particularly the kidneys
Anorgasmia (frigidity) - The female orgasm
The female orgasm is defined, on a physiological level, as a reflex that is generated mainly by stimulation of sensory nerves located in the clitoris, but also by impulses from other areas, including the vaginal access and the nipples
Visual defects, let's talk about presbyopia
Unlike astigmatism, nearsightedness, and farsightedness, presbyopia is not a refractive error. Instead, it is a physiological reduction of the accommodative amplitude and, therefore, of the maximum level of accommodation that an eye…
Heart disease: what are coronary angioplasty, stents and bypasses
Coronary angioplasty is the procedure by which an obstructed blood vessel is dilated using a balloon placed where the problem arises; it is inflated to recreate the space needed for blood to flow
Maneuver and positive or negative Rovsing sign: what are they and what do they indicate?
The Rovsing maneuver is a maneuver used in medical semiotics to investigate the presence of abdominal pain
Congenital clubfoot: what is it?
Congenital clubfoot is a malformation of the foot that occurs from birth. Its name derives from the fact that its main characteristic is a persistent foot deformity that prevents normal standing on the ground