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American Red Cross and Google team up to keep wounded warriors connected WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Red Cross can now help wounded members of the military being treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center communicate with friends and family through a donation of 100 Chromebooks by Google. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090108/RedCrossLOGO) Patients will be able to check out the Chromebooks through the Red Cross Service to the...

Doctors may be sending too many patients by helicopter, an expensive choice that may not impact patient outcome When a patient needs to travel between hospitals and time is of the essence, helicopter transport is generally assumed to be faster and more desirable than taking a ground ambulance, but a paper published today in the online journal PLoS ONE refutes this common assumption, revealing that the actual times to treatment for patients transported by helicopter may not justify the...

HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- State Fire Commissioner Ed Mann is reminding volunteer fire, rescue and ambulance companies that it's not too late to apply for a share of $25 million in service grants. The deadline to apply has been extended to 4 p.m. on Nov. 4, Mann said, because many volunteer fire and ambulance service personnel were extremely busy during the recent flooding. The Volunteer Fire Company, Volunteer Ambulance Service Grant Program is open to...

Birmingham-based AirMed is the only North American company in the running for the coveted travel insurance industry award Birmingham, Alabama (PRWEB) September 22, 2011 AirMed International (http://www.airmed.com) has been nominated for the third time as Air Ambulance Provider of the Year in the prestigious industry awards presented annually by the International Travel Insurance Journal (ITIJ). Alabama-based AirMed is the only North American finalist for this award, competing against...

ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y., Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Over the past 2 1/2 years, the North Shore-LIJ Center for Emergency Medical Services (CEMS) has responded to more than 2,300 911 emergency calls from residents of Rockville Centre and transported over 1,800 ill or injured patients to area hospitals. The 911 response service is part of a highly acclaimed, groundbreaking approach to emergency ambulance services that the Village of Rockville Centre implemented in December 2008....

Implementing a command-directed casualty response system appears to be associated with reducing battlefield casualties, including killed-in-action deaths, casualties who died of wounds, and preventable combat deaths, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals."Historically, approximately 90 percent of combat-related deaths occur prior to a casualty reaching a medical treatment facility (MTF)," the authors write as background...

Leading U.S. air ambulance AirMed International recently completed a complicated 26-hour transport from central Asia to the United States to save a young man suffering from a widely undiagnosed and potentially fatal condition. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (PRWEB) August 08, 2011 Leading U.S. air ambulance company AirMed International excels in international life-saving flights and recently completed a 26 hour transport from central Asia to the United States to save a young man suffering from a...

More than 6000 attendees of the Love Parade 2010 in Duisburg required medical care. The mass panic in a narrow stretch of tunnel led to 21 dead and more than 400 injured, some seriously. The emergency physician Ole Ackermann of the Duisburg Medical Center and his coauthors present an assessment of the medical care provided. Rather than focusing on the treatment administered to those who later died, the authors give an overview of the number, severity and urgency of treatment as a whole. They...

Air Critical Care LLC, a worldwide Air Ambulance Services has become a provider for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida. Punta Gorda, FL (PRWEB) July 29, 2011 Air Critical Care LLC is a Florida-based air ambulance company offering global patient transportation and medical evacuation services and now will be a provider for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. "Our new relationship with Blue Cross allows us to offer the...

Air ambulance has a cost effective option with ACC Medlinks ground transport services Ft. Myers, FL (PRWEB) July 29, 2011 ACC Medlink, a leader in next-generation of medical transportation services, showcased their new Medical Transportation vehicle in Fort Myers and Naples, Florida this week. ACC Medlink has received the first of a fleet of medical transport vehicles with the addition units due to be delivered next month. ACC Medlink's order will include Ford Motor Company's new...