News tagged with emergency
NASA Aircraft Flies Calif. Wildfire Post-Burn Mission
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's remotely piloted Predator B aircraft, named Ikhana, recently conducted post-burn assessments of two Southern California wildfire sites, the Piute Fire in Kern County and the Station Fire in the Angeles ...
Magic box for mission impossible
Nov 25, 2009 |
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On September 11, firefighters, police officers and ambulance workers faced a terrifying rescue effort in the World Trade Center complex. They battled to save people from the collapsing Twin Towers, searched for survivors, ...
Stable plaque or heart attack plaque? Researcher builds new MEMS sensor to tell which is which
Nov 23, 2009 |
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University of Sourthern California biomedical engineer and cardiologist Tzung "John" Hsiai hopes to develop a new tool to help clinicians distinguish cardiac emergencies requiring immediate surgery from chronic ...
Don't add an ER visit to your holiday plans
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UNC emergency physician Abhi Mehrotra, M.D., explains how you can avoid the most common injuries that land people in a hospital emergency department during the four-day Thanksgiving holiday period.
Study: CT scans rule out heart attacks faster
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A new study suggests that a type of "super X-ray" can give a faster, cheaper way to tell whether a chest pain sufferer is really having a heart attack.
Need for emergency airway surgery for hard-to-intubate patients reduced
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Be prepared, that old Boy Scout motto, is being applied with great success to operating room patients whose anatomy may make it difficult for physicians to help them breathe during surgery, Johns Hopkins researchers report ...
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 ...
