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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.
Hypertension and kidney disease: what is the link between kidney and blood pressure?
There is a strong link between blood pressure and the kidney, which travels in both directions: it is good to know it and know the consequences
Fires, smoke inhalation and burns: goals of therapy and treatment
Fires are a major cause of injury, death and economic damage. Every year, between 15 and 25 million fires occur in the United States, resulting in approximately 25,000 injuries, 5,000 deaths and $7 to $9 billion in economic damages
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): the consequences of a traumatic event
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a condition that can occur as a consequence of exposure to a traumatic event
Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF): causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a rare autoinflammatory disease that is genetically transmitted and manifests itself with recurrent episodes of fever and inflammation
Infections: risk in oncohaematological children. What is Neutropenia?
Oncohaematological children and infections: in paediatric patients with oncohaematological diseases the immune defences are impaired, thus increasing the risk of infections
Cardiac arrest: overview of shockable and non-shockable rhythms
The rhythms associated with cardiac arrest are divided into defibrillatable and non-defibrillatable: in the case of defibrillatable rhythms, it will be possible to beat cardiac arrest
Genodermatosis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
Genodermatosis is a skin disorder with a genetic transmission mode. Therefore, this term is used to refer to certain skin diseases that have a hereditary component
Pathological anatomy and pathophysiology: neurological and pulmonary damage from drowning
Drowning or 'drowning syndrome' in medicine refers to a form of acute asphyxia from an external mechanical cause caused by the occupation of the pulmonary alveolar space by water or other liquid introduced through the upper airways, which…
Scarlet fever? Don't panic: if treated with the right antibiotics, children are no longer infectious…
Scarlet fever? Don't panic: if treated with the right antibiotics, children are no longer infectious after 48 hours
Drowning: symptoms, signs, initial assessment, diagnosis, severity. Relevance of the Orlowski score
Drowning' or 'drowning syndrome' in medicine refers to a form of acute asphyxia due to an external mechanical cause caused by the occupation of the pulmonary alveolar space by water or other liquid introduced through the upper airways,…