emergency

Defibrillator refers to a particular instrument capable of detecting alterations in cardiac rhythm and delivering an electric shock to the heart when necessary: this shock has the capacity to re-establish 'sinus' rhythm, i.e. the correct…

Watching an emergency where a stranger gives mouth-to-mouth CPR to the victim raises the importance of using a barrier device

Working under fire: the activities of ambulance crews in Nikolaev during the invasion of the Russian Federation take place under critical conditions and great personal danger

Little Makhar is now in Italy with his mother, and thanks to the Red Cross he has a chance of a better future

War in Ukraine, Russian aggressors allegedly used banned weapons such as phosphorus devices during their invasion war. This necessitated the issuing of instructions to citizens by the Ministry of Health in Kiev

Pneumothorax (PNX) is a sudden-onset condition characterised by the presence of air in the pleural space (i.e. the virtual space between the two pleural leaflets that line the lung and chest wall)

Spinal distribution shock: 'shock' in medicine refers to a syndrome, i.e. a set of symptoms and signs, caused by reduced perfusion at a systemic level with an imbalance between oxygen availability and its demand at a tissue level

Airway management in a road accident scenario: knowing how to treat patients in these crisis situations and paying special attention to potential airway problems is essential to provide adequate care

To understand the concept of 'code black', it is first necessary to understand the concept of 'triage'. Triage is a system used in Emergency Departments and DEAs (Emergency and Acceptance Departments) to select those involved in accidents…

Basic trauma life support (BTLS): basic trauma life support (hence the acronym SVT) is a rescue protocol generally used by rescuers and aimed at the first treatment of injured persons who have suffered trauma, i.e. an event caused by a…