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Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the pulse oximeter (or saturation meter) was only widely used by ambulance teams, resuscitators and pulmonologists

Electronic vital sign monitors have been common in hospitals for more than 40 years. On TV or in movies, they start making noises, and doctors and nurses come running, yelling things like “stat!” or “we are losing it!”

In Mid Wales the Ambulance Service has welcomed Dill, its first therapy dog. A solution to the increasing stress and burnout that is affecting ambulance crews as elsewhere in the world

Intubation can make the difference between life and death. Doctors and nurses perform this procedure on patients who are unable to breathe on their own

The Trendelenburg position (TP) is a clinical technique in which the body is tilted into a supine position so that the head is lower than the body and legs

On 28 February 2023, Falck’s first electric ambulance will leave the station in Copenhagen, Denmark

Intubation is a procedure that can help save a life when someone can’t breathe

The vacuum splint is a device which resembles a vacuum mattress of reduced dimensions, it is used in emergency medicine for the immobilisation of traumatised limbs and as a temporary splint

A motorcyclist is on the ground, a traffic accident has resulted in his injuries. The question of what to do is triggered in the ordinary citizen

The carry sheet is one of the most familiar aids to the rescuer: it is in fact a tool used in emergencies to load patients, unable to move independently, onto the stretcher or to transfer the injured from the stretcher to the bed