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Medical ID Bracelets Made Fashionable; Even Halle Berry Wears One
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Medical community warming up to freeze therapy
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Post potential pathogenic exposure germ-killing spray hits market
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Agents warn of new drug hitting U.S.
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Top Product Innovations for 2007
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CPR and Shock Simultaneously Aids Resuscitation, Safe for Workers
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FDA Approval for FlexWarmer
A portable fluid warmer that requires neither battery nor electric power
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Back From the Dead
New resuscitation technologies and paradigms; A report from the border between life and death.
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Noninvasive Pneumothorax Detector
One of the R&D Magazine's prestigious 100 Awards for innovation was just presented to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for developing a technology that is capable of detectingt a pneumothorax
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New Drug-Dispensing Gun Saves Lives
Designed by anesthesiologist Dr. John Lafferty of Miami, Florida, the DRAGON DRUG GUN was originally intended for emergency personnel.
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PPH - Heart Failure or Just Plain Weakness?
People with PPH are very crucial cases since it could prove to be fatal. One more problem related to this is that, the symptoms of this disease don’t surface until the sufferer is in his late twenties or thirties.
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Enzyme Discovery Could Greatly Expand Blood Supply
Scientists say they've found a way to change type A and B donated blood -- which can only be used by people with those types -- into universally usable type O.
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THE Glove
Michael Jackson's Got Nothing On These Inventors
(w/ cool video)
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Medicine races to keep up with street weaponry
As it leaves the barrel of a gun at 1,200 feet per second, a bullet flies in roughly a straight line. Until it strikes a human. Then a bullet does astounding, awful things. W/multimedia)
See also: "Trauma center: The state of the art in gunshot wound treatment" on same page
Nov 16, 2006, 12:41
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Use of Caffeine Supplements Getting Dangerous
Almost half its calls on caffeine misuse involved folks who were already in the hands of a paramedic or health professional.
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Promising new liquid seals off wounds in just seconds
That's the promise of a new biodegradable liquid that has halted bleeding in surgical wounds in laboratory rats in less than 15 seconds. The liquid doesn't expand when it is applied, meaning that it doesn't bring additional pressure to surrounding tissue or constrict blood flow in nearby areas.
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First fully mine-protected battle ambulance
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Wake County NC paramedics use new 'cool aid' method
Paramedics with Wake County Emergency Medical Services and the county's two 24-hour cardiac care hospitals will begin using a novel therapy that protects patients' brains from damage by quickly dropping their body temperature. (w/ video)
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The Battle Against Bleeding
A sonic blood coagulator; It uses sound waves to encourage clotting. It's a device that could be used by a layperson, a medic on the battlefield.
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Interdisciplinary Team Develops Guidelines for Treating Severely Injured Patients
The outcomes for trauma and burn patients often depend on the strength of their inflammatory response to their injury. Inflammation helps the healing process in many cases, but an excessive response can lead to multiple organ failure, a common cause of death following a traumatic injury.
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Vidacare's EZ-IO Product System Receives FDA Clearance for Humeral Head Access
Humeral head access in patients with body weight greater than 39kg.
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Research team over the moon
Solving the problem of obtaining an useful blood sample in space..."Every paramedic from every hospital in every country would be interested in this little device because it is small, light, easy to use and quick."
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Man's invention warns of approaching emergency vehicles
You'd never know Ralph Pickens is 84 years old. His youthful outlook on life belies his age. Pickens is an active fellow from the Rock Springs, TN community whose interests are many and varied. Fortunately for all of us, one of his interests is traffic safety.
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Utah Review Board Gives Green Light to Synthetic Blood Study
In what appeared to be a done deal last December, University of Utah and LDS
Hospitals announced they would join paramedics and EMT's in testing a new
synthetic blood product called Polyheme.
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Should Heart Attack Care be More Like Trauma Care?
A new study shows that 79 percent of Americans live within an hour’s ambulance trip of an angioplasty-performing hospital - - an important finding in the ongoing debate over whether to make heart-attack care more like trauma care by taking some patients to hospitals that provide advanced treatment.
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Crew helps design safer ambulance
Paramedics and EMTs take precautions to avoid the dangers of their jobs. But they have little control over being bounced around in the back of an ambulance en route to the hospital.
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Despite Heart Attack Deaths, PolyHeme Still Being Tested On Trauma Patients
PolyHeme maker decided the heart attacks in first study might have been due to doctor inexperience in using PolyHeme, not a problem with the product itself. Now Northfield is in the middle of a new trial. A Food and Drug Administration official, Jay Epstein, calls the earlier data " alarming " but not sufficient to stop Northfield from trying out its product on hundreds of trauma patients.
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Cases of methemoglobinemia due to incorrect use of benzocaine sprays
Benzocaine Sprays marketed under different names, including Hurricaine, Topex, and Cetacaine
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NHTSA Announcement: Creation of the Office of Emergency Medical Services
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is pleased to
announce the creation of the Office of Emergency Medical Services (EMS).
Recognizing the consistent and long-standing contribution of the EMS program and
its increasing responsibilities, NHTSA is elevating the stature of the EMS
Division to match its expanding role.
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Kit ensures piercings don't get under paramedics' skin
A group of Indiana firefighters gathers around a man sporting a nose ring. The situation looks harmless until they comically pretend to remove the ring with the "Jaws of Life."
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Treatment Helps Cardiac Arrest Victims Survive
David Coatsworth, paramedic: "Our success in resuscitating these people will be
the patient's ultimate success, because they'll be able to leave the hospital
without being neurologically impaired."
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Blood-loss drug a risk to kidneys, study says
A popular drug given to more than a million people since 1993 to limit blood loss during heart surgery doubles a patient's risk of kidney failure and substantially increases the risk of a heart attack
Jan 26, 2006, 19:56
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Hospitals Chill Heart Attack Victims
A handful of Minnesota hospitals are now chilling some heart attack patients in an effort partly to protect their brains, a therapy that has produced results one doctor called "breathtaking."
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New rights for California paramedics
County paramedics with specific training will be able to place three-day psychiatric holds on individuals and decide if they belong at the hospital or jail
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Army's high-tech bandage caught in controversy
The U.S. Army is launching a multimillion-dollar campaign to equip all of its
combat troops with a futuristic bandage designed to stop massive bleeding,
despite doubts about its effectiveness and the development of a less expensive
product many scientists think works better.
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AHA Gives New Rating to Medical Device That Has Been Shown to Improve Resuscitation Rates During CPR
Advanced Circulatory Systems, Inc., announced today that its ResQPOD(R) has been given a Class IIa recommendation by the American Heart Association (AHA) in its recently released guidelines for CPR and emergency cardiac care.
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American Heart Association Updated Emergency Care Guidelines
New emergency care guidelines include dramatic changes to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emphasis on chest compressions, according to authors of the 2005 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care.
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Research shows CPR can be learned in just 20 minutes
It's enough to make your heart flutter. Researchers say C-P-R can be learned in just 20 minutes, instead of the currently required four hours.
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Humans outperform machines at CPR
An automated CPR machine wasn’t faring as well as emergency responders in saving heart-patients’ lives, so researchers halted a study in Columbus and four other cities.
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“Mobile Medic” Could Help Save Lives And Money
.... the program could be particularly helpful to rural counties that wouldn't be able to afford the software.
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Medics Help Refine Next Generation Safety Concept Ambulance
Since its debut last fall, the next generation ambulance continues to be refined to provide medics and their patients with cutting-edge safety and patient care tools.
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Most motor vehicle deaths occur from crashes on July 4
The upcoming Independence Day holiday is when the most motor vehicle deaths
occur, based on experience during 1986-2002. About 40 percent more crash deaths
than occur on an average day.
May 5, 2005, 20:12
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Study: Emergency Medical Services Should Move From DOT to DHS
Experts say EMS does not belong in DOT, where its role is marginalized by lack of funding and strong leadership.
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Army's new life-saving training aims to cut combat deaths
New curriculum being taught to all the Army's basic recruits, a sobering but realistic new requirement the Army thinks could save about 10 percent of the soldiers who die in battle.
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New Device Checks for Concussions on the Sidelines
A player just took a hard knock to the head and is lying on the field. A coach rushes to his side, but the player sits up and seems fine.
He knows who the president is and how many fingers the coach is holding up. But is he ready to get back in the game?
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Homeland Security Test Required
One of the strings attached to Federal Homeland Security grants is a test every responder must pass.
Mar 26, 2005, 02:57
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Bigger people spur need for bigger EMS stretchers
Americans are putting on more pounds, and the emergency medical technicians who hoist heavy patients are feeling the weight.
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The ABC's of CPR: Studies suggest changes in training
Two studies, published in January in The Journal of the American Medical Association, have found that even well-trained providers do not perform CPR according to the guidelines set by the American Heart Association and the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation
Mar 16, 2005, 13:10
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Emergency Medical Services Scope of Practice Feedback Came Pouring In
The deadline has passed to comment on the first draft of the National Emergency Medical Services Scope of Practice, and thousands of comments came pouring in to the developers.
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