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Whiplash, a condition often associated with rear-end motor vehicle collisions, is notoriously difficult to diagnose and treat

Targeted hypothermia does not reduce the incidence of death at six months among comatose patients after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), according to a study published in the 17 June issue of the New England Journal of Medicine

Prick tests are performed to diagnose respiratory or food allergies using purified allergen extracts in vials. Each vial contains a solution with a single allergen

The tourniquet is essentially an arterial tourniquet. It has long been the subject of debate as to its actual usefulness: an interesting study from Los Angeles is sure to be worth reading

Quality training offered at Emergency Expo: DMC, Dinas Medical Consultants Limited, based in Swansea, Wales, specialises in medical and fleet consultancy providing medical cover for events, project management training to include first aid…

The Motorcycle ambulance  is a tool that makes the difference in some situations. Much more so than the motorised ambulance, which has almost the same problems as the ambulance in reaching the patient when he, or she, is in places that are…

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

Drug allergies are an issue that mainly affects adult patients, as they are more likely than younger people to have taken one or more drugs over the years in such large numbers that they have become sensitised to them

Endotracheal intubation (ETI) in children is thankfully rare and our first pass success rate could definitely do with some improvement

Respiratory arrest and cardiac arrest are distinct entities, but one inevitably leads to the other if left untreated