Patient Management

Hearts don't keep beat with iPods, study hints

Researchers say the music devices interfered with pacemakers in nearly 30 percent of their test group.

Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Sick 9/11 Responders Still Coming Forward

Six years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the number of first responders and workers who are ill and are seeking monitoring and treatment continues to rise, a trend that surprises the medical professionals caring for them.

Posted Monday, September 10, 2007

A Slice of Humble Pie

In this case, almost everyone involved thought there was nothing significantly wrong with the patient. Check the ECG strips and test your assessment.

Posted Thursday, September 6, 2007

A Slice of Humble Pie

In this case, almost everyone involved thought there was nothing significantly wrong with the patient. Check the ECG strips and test your assessment.

Posted Thursday, September 6, 2007

Proper Strap Tightness for Immobilization

A recent study was conducted at the University of North Carolina Hospitals Emergency Department in an attempt to define adequate spinal immobilization.

Posted Sunday, August 5, 2007

Proper Strap Tightness for Immobilization

A recent study was conducted at the University of North Carolina Hospitals Emergency Department in an attempt to define adequate spinal immobilization.

Posted Sunday, August 5, 2007

Impact of Rapid Delivery of Acute MI Patients

A recent study was conducted in the city of Calgary, Canada to determine the impact of rapidly delivering acute myocardial infarction (MI) patients to the single interventional facility in the city.

Posted Monday, July 9, 2007

Impact of Rapid Delivery of Acute MI Patients

A recent study was conducted in the city of Calgary, Canada to determine the impact of rapidly delivering acute myocardial infarction (MI) patients to the single interventional facility in the city.

Posted Monday, July 9, 2007

Body bag would be hazards defense

Lexington KY- In March of last year, New York City paramedic Deborah Reeve died of mesothelioma, an asbestos-related form of cancer. There is little doubt she was first exposed to asbestos on Sept. 11, 2001, when she responded to the scene at Ground Zero.

Posted Thursday, July 5, 2007

Methane gas kills 5 on Virginia farm

Deadly methane gas emanating from a dairy farm's manure pit killed five people a Mennonite farmer who climbed into the pit to unclog a pipe, and then in frantic rescue attempt that failed, his wife, two young daughters and a farmhand who tried to help.

Posted Tuesday, July 3, 2007