A safety program to lessen risks faced by emergency service personnel and others responding to incidents on high-speed roads has been trialed in Victoria, resulting in a recommendation for similar programs to be rolled out ...
Jul 25, 2024
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Crystal Hiwalker wonders if her heart and lungs would have kept working if the ambulance crew had been able to give her a transfusion as the blood drained from her body during a stormy, 100-mile ride.
Jun 20, 2024
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Ambulances meant for people having a mental health crisis could help folks get the care they need with less confrontation and friction, a new study says.
May 31, 2024
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Surgeons must provide leadership in transforming health care across the Global South—by integrating surgery into the global health agenda and advocating for simple and cost-effective surgical procedures that support overall ...
May 21, 2024
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Researchers have identified Australian regions with high rates of cardiac arrest and low rates of CPR, prompting calls for targeted education campaigns to improve awareness about avoiding and treating heart issues.
Apr 24, 2024
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Live video streaming, used via 999 callers' smartphones, could aid emergency medical services' decision-making about how many and what type of emergency medical personnel and vehicles to send to major trauma incidents.
Feb 27, 2024
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As Australia swelters through a long, hot summer, the effects of heat waves and the likelihood of ambulance callouts is at the heart of new Griffith University research.
Jan 29, 2024
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A national research database has revealed stark figures for cardiac arrests in England for 2022. Survival rates remain low, with around 8% patients surviving to 30 days after a cardiac arrest.
Jan 9, 2024
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Assessing how seriously injured a person is, involves weighing up lots of different parameters fast. If health care professionals could get support making fast-paced, life-critical decisions from an AI tool, more lives could ...
Jan 4, 2024
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Rural medics who rescued rancher Jim Lutter after he was gored by a bison didn't have much experience handling such severe wounds.
Dec 11, 2023
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An ambulance is a vehicle for transportation of sick or injured people to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury, and in some instances will also provide out of hospital medical care to the patient. The word is often associated with road going emergency ambulances which form part of an emergency medical service, administering emergency care to those with acute medical problems.
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