Emergency medical services can have an increasing role in clinical medicine, and how services are delivered in the community during the coming year. Here are some of the biggest challenges facing emergency medical services in 2018: Preparation and responses for active shooter events The number of...
Patients receiving over the counter pain medicine in the emergency room for broken bones and sprains are able to manage pain as well as those receiving powerful opioid painkillers, according to a new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association (jamanetwork.com). The study...
The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology issued new guidelines for high blood pressure that will include millions more Americans who meet the criteria to be considered at risk of complications from the condition. Most of the people considered newly hypertensive, will include...
Some 911 calls that came in during 2017 were especially strange, from a man who had a fish jump down his throat when he pretended to eat it, to a skydiver who lived after falling onto an airplane. Here are the top ten craziest EMS...
Doctors will soon be able to address the longstanding and expensive problem of patient adherence to taking medicine as prescribed. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a digital pill with an embedded ingestible sensor that would tell doctors whether and when a patient has...
To help patients with cardiac arrest receive faster treatment during the critical minutes following the medical incident, researchers at the University of Minnesota are studying how to cram an ambulance with the latest imaging and heart-lung bypass technology. The University is looking to design a...