Being Prepared for a Medical Emergency

Are you prepared for a medical emergency?

Being prepared for donation after cardiac death.

Depending on your perspective, donation after cardiac death (DCD) is a welcome boost for organ donation or an ethical quagmire. In July 2007, DCD was shoved into the spotlight when a transplant surgeon in California was charged with 3 felony counts related to a patient who was expected to undergo DCD. Although no organs were donated, the surgeon allegedly violated the law and failed to follow t...

Are you prepared for an emergency?

Stroke--a medical emergency.

Acute ischaemic stroke as an urgent-to-treat condition has gained a more prominent role in the consciousness of emergency physicians and neurologists over the past decade. This is mainly due to an increasing insight into the pathophysiological mechanism of ischaemia, the definition of therapeutical goals, such as reperfusion or neuroprotection, and the recent application of respective treatment...

Emergency medical services use for trauma patient transportation to hospital

abstract Introduction: An effort is being made to reduce pre-hospital emergency missions as much as possible without any harm to people and reduce the quality of services. This can be achieved by determining some characters and conditions of patients with their need for emergency services.  The purpose of the present study was to determine the rate of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) use for t...