trauma

By: Dr. Marietjie “MJ” Slabbert on SIRIUS Business Services I recently heard of a complaint made by a patient to the ambulance service. This patient complained that after she was involved in a car accident, the air ambulance paramedics…

Netcare has implemented trauma injury prevention (TIP) training workshops within communities where Qhubeka distributes bicycles in partnership with World Vision

Dr Alan Garner recently published a report about a catastrophe that happened during a winching operation. He highlights the physiological challenges rescuers sometimes add in the work they do.

There is only rescue association in all Laos, and it is not financed by international organization or big NGO. Why you have to look about this experience to empower your emergency services? Vientiane Rescue volunteers are fighting every…

The nearest hospital is 35 miles away. The local EMS agency can’t find and retain enough paramedics. The paramedics and EMTs available live too far away to attend most continuing education courses. These are just some of the challenges…

If an emergency situation occurs, almost always, bystanders do not know how to manage it or how to give a hand. This is a brief guide to understand the main 5 steps to guarantee a concrete help, even if you are not paramedics.

A concrete experience of a South African paramedic and how the days pass by amid emergency, family, colleagues and patients. At the base always the importance of the vehicles, the equipment and, most of all, passion and skills.

7th World Congress of Mountain and Wilderness medicine in Telluride, Colorado. July 30 - August 4, 2016

The Greater Sydney Area Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) operates a large, physician-staffed, multimodal, prehospital and interhospital retrieval service.

Closing date: 10 Jul 2016 BACKGROUND International Medical Corps in Turkey implements humanitarian assistance programs to assist conflict-affected Syrians through a network of Field Hospitals, Primary Health Care facilities and…