High glycaemia, or hyperglycaemia, is defined as when blood glucose, measured in the morning on an empty stomach, exceeds 100 mg/dl and when, after eating 2 hours after the meal, the values are > 140 mg/dl

Oesophageal achalasia is a disorder related to the difficulty in swallowing both liquid and solid food. This is due to the failure to open the valve between the stomach and oesophagus (lower oesophageal sphincter) and the lack of motility…

Emergency communications are playing an increasingly important role in the management of maxi emergencies: Slovenia has adopted the PEMEA standard and joined the European countries that are revolutionising their communications

Abdominal paracentesis is used to collect ascitic fluid for analysis. It can also be used to remove ascites under tension that causes breathing difficulty or pain or as a treatment for chronic ascites

Movement disorders are neurological diseases that lead to malfunctions in voluntary muscles, procedural learning, automatisms and the cognitive and emotional spheres

41 Piaggio MP3 three-wheeled motorbikes will be used by the Georgia Emergency Service The motorised medics are part of a World Bank project to support the Georgian emergency service: in 2021 the Georgian UNOPS office put out a tender to…

The international network Doctors of the World enters Emergency Expo, and for Roberts this is a reason of particular pride

Let's talk about sleepwalking: have you ever gone to sleep in your bed and woken up on the sofa in the living room? Or maybe you woke up with mysterious crumbs scattered on your pyjamas with no memory of a midnight snack?

Heart-lung machine, during open-heart surgery, acts in place of the heart, exchanging blood and oxygen

Kaposi's sarcoma is a multicentric vascular tumour caused by herpes virus type 8. The various forms are classical, AIDS-associated, endemic (in Africa), or iatrogenic (e.g. after organ transplantation)