Airway

High participation of attendees at the comprehensive theoretical-practical course on airway management During emergency situations, proper airway management is a delicate yet fundamental phase to ensure the patient's life is out of danger.…

Significant collaboration between ADAC Luftrettung and Volocopter for the development of electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) for rescue services A step forward in air rescue and emergency medicine The collaboration is…

Spirometry is a simple test used to help diagnose and monitor certain lung conditions by measuring how much air you can breathe out in one forced breath

The "Acute respiratory distress syndrome" (abbreviated with the acronym ARDS) according to the definition of the WHO (World Health Organization) is a "diffuse damage of the alveolar capillaries causing severe respiratory failure with…

The Rule of Nine, also known as Wallace's Rule of Nine, is a tool used in trauma and emergency medicine to assess the total body surface area (TBSA) involved in burn patients

The term 'hypoxaemia' refers to an abnormal decrease in oxygen content in the blood, caused by an alteration in gas exchanges occurring in the pulmonary alveoli

What Happens When You Choke on Water? If you are drinking a glass of water or from a water bottle, and it gets into your lungs, it can cause aspiration pneumonia and lead to hospitalization

Occupational asthma is a disease characterised by diffuse, intermittent and reversible airway obstruction caused by a specific allergen present in the work environment

The damages induced by smoke inhalation determine a dramatic worsening of the mortality of burn patients: in these cases the damages deriving from smoke inhalation add up to those from burns, often with lethal consequences

With "polytrauma" or "polytraumatized" in medicine we mean by definition an injured patient who presents associated injuries to two or more parts of the body (skull, spine, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, limbs) with current or potential…