News tagged with emergency
Experts offer strategies for working with immigrant victims of violence (w/ Video)
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Last year, the United States provided asylum and resettlement assistance for nearly 80,700 people from other countries, an increase from 71,300 individuals in 2007, according to the U.S. Committee for Refugees ...
Fewer emergency patients seen within recommended time frame
Nov 09, 2009 |
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One in four emergency department patients in 2006 waited longer to be evaluated by a clinician than recommended at triage, an increase from one in five in 1997, according to a report in the November 9 issue of Archives of ...
Jumping on the bandwagon: Introducing the next generation multi-band radio to emergency responders
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Tom Chirhart knows a lot about radios, but over the last year, he's gotten a real life lesson in supply and demand.
Swine flu prompts hundreds of schools to close
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide and normally quiet school nurses' offices suddenly look like big city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill ...
Strategies to reduce HIV treatment dropout rates: cost-effective and improve survival chances
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 26, 2009 |
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In a study published this week in PLoS Medicine, Elena Losina (of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston) and colleagues predict that strategies to reduce dropout rates from HIV treatment programs in resource-poor settin ...
Fixing the flaw in emergency planning
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Emergency response plans must include knowledge from the people who need to be protected if these plans are to help communities respond effectively to threats, write Drs. Roz Lasker, Noni MacDonald and Editor-in-Chief Paul ...
Obama declares swine flu a national emergency
Oct 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected ...
EU probes mismanagement in prized Spanish wetland
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The European Union has launched an investigation into a prized Spanish wetland that has turned bone dry through mismanagement of water resources and is now on fire underground, white smoke now rising ...
The Medical Minute: There's no trick to a safe Halloween
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Halloween is supposed to be a spooky night, but parents don’t have to be scared about their kids’ safety if they follow some simple safety tips from Safe Kids Dauphin County, led by the Penn State Hershey ...
Calling it in: New emergency medical service system may predict caller's fate
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Japanese researchers have developed a computer program which may be able tell from an emergency call if you are about to die. Research published in the open access journal BMC Emergency Medicine shows that a computer algori ...
Health information exchange conquers new frontier: Emergency medical services
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Emergency medical responders typically know very little about the patients they treat at mass disasters, accident scenes, or other sites where an ambulance is dispatched for rapid response. That's true everyplace ...
Clots traveling from lower veins may not be the cause of pulmonary embolism in trauma patients
Oct 19, 2009 |
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A report from a team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) physicians calls into question the longstanding belief that pulmonary embolism (PE) - the life-threatening blockage of a major blood vessel in the lungs - is caused ...
Working overnights by physicians not linked to significantly increased risk of complications
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Attending surgeons and obstetricians/gynecologists who worked nighttime hours did not have a significantly greater rate of complications for procedures performed the next day, but having less than six hours of opportunity ...
Tropical Storm Patricia approaches Mexico
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Officials closed schools and readied emergency shelters as Tropical Storm Patricia neared Mexico's Los Cabos resorts on Tuesday.
Radio waves 'see' through walls (w/ Video)
Oct 12, 2009 |
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University of Utah engineers showed that a wireless network of radio transmitters can track people moving behind solid walls. The system could help police, firefighters and others nab intruders, and rescue ...
