EMS in the World

In the UK, the army has been drafted in to support ambulance crews, in an attempt to fill staffing shortages and to 'give a breather' ahead of the flu season

The Head Up Tilt Test is an examination that completes the diagnostic process to identify the causes of an episode of syncope, i.e. loss of consciousness due to a temporary drop in the flow of blood to the brain

Sudden patient death during ambulance transport: has a patient ever taken you by surprise? That is, has a cardiorespiratory arrest ever occurred while you were in the crew, in a patient's home, or in your own ambulance, without any warning?

In Tucson, Arizona, a shootout involved a team of firefighters, police officers and an ambulance crew: two people were killed and several injured

RadioEMS is not just a simple radio: it is the real point of reference for the culture of emergency and rescue in the North American continent

No longer just an ambulance driver: 30 drivers from the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts have been able to upgrade their skills thanks to a training course supported by the EU and UNDP

Being a crew member in a 118 ambulance in Naples has long since become unbearable. We don't want to use the expression 'you wait until someone dies', but the feeling, honestly, has often been this

Body cams on ambulance crews' uniforms are a response to the sharp rise in assaults on ambulance crews in the south-west of England

Magen David Adom, Israel's national emergency medical service, has established a new procedural protocol based on telemedicine

EM-day: the 27th of May is the day when Emergency Medicine in Europe took its beginning. In London a group of visionary people signed the founding act of the European Society for Emergency Medicine