Latest Emergency medicine Stories
Community Celebration Brings Together the Whambulance and Local Businesses. Lewisville, TX (PRWEB) June 18, 2013 First Choice Emergency Room, the leading freestanding emergency room system in the United States, will host a street party at their North Fort Worth facility on Saturday, June 22nd from 11 a.m.- 2 p.m. During the event, the Whambulance, a converted 2005 Chevy Kodiak Heavy Duty Ambulance that now stands 14 feet tall, 13 feet wide and 25 feet long, will be parked outside the...
SANTA FE, N.M., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- UC Charting Solutions announced today that it has successfully implemented ProMentum(®) Flex at Ong's Urgent Care in Louisville, KY. Ong's originally selected ProMentum Flex as its paperless urgent and primary care EHR solution because of its rapid implementation, charting speed and UC Charting Solutions' MU Assisted program where UC Charting will actively work on behalf of Ong's Urgent Care to get their Meaningful Use incentives. The...
Patients with more timely access to GP appointments make fewer visits to accident and emergency departments, suggests a study published today. In the largest analysis of its kind to date, researchers at Imperial College London related A&E attendance figures in England to responses from a national survey of patients' experience of GP practices in 2010-11. One question of this survey asked patients whether they had been able to see a GP within two weekdays when they had last tried. GP...
The American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) was proud to honor and recognize 537 physicians who achieved board certification in addiction medicine during the organization’s recent annual awards luncheon in Chicago, IL. The new ABAM diplomates join 2,557 physicians in the United States who have already been certified and awarded diplomate status by ABAM, an independent medical specialty board. Chicago, Illinois (PRWEB) June 12, 2013 The American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) was...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TeamHealth Holdings, Inc. ("TeamHealth") (NYSE: TMH), one of the largest suppliers of outsourced healthcare professional staffing and administrative services to hospitals and other healthcare providers in the United States, today announced that its management team will present at the Wells Fargo Healthcare Conference held on June 19(th), 2013 at the Intercontinental Boston. The presentation will begin at 1:50 PM eastern time. Interested...
Hosts Street Party with Local Businesses and the Whambulance Lewisville, TX (PRWEB) June 11, 2013 First Choice Emergency Room, the leading freestanding emergency room system in the United States, invites the Spring community to a family fun event at their location on the corner of Kuykendahl and 2920 on June 15th from 11am-2pm. During the event, the Whambulance, a 2005 Chevrolet Kodiak Heavy Duty Ambulance converted into a monster truck, along with a Precinct Four Police Car will be...
Vittal2you, a pioneer and leading provider of house call doctors and emergency medical services, announces the availability of its house call doctors 24/7 services in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. MIAMI, FL (PRWEB) June 11, 2013 Vittal2you, a pioneer and leading provider of house call doctors and emergency medical services, announces the availability of its house call doctors 24/7 services in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. With membership plans starting at only $9.90 a month, members...
The Website Provides Continuous Updates to its BLS Certification Training Materials NEW YORK, June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- ACLS PALS BLS, a website that offers online certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support and Basic Life Support, has just added a new page that focuses specifically on the benefits of the site's BLS certification course. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130610/CG29019) In addition, ACLS-PALS-BLS.com is...
Hiking, biking and auto travel can be fun during the summer, but the increased risk of injury presented by these activities often necessitates the expert attorneys at the Law Offices of Burg & Brock. LOS ANGELES, June 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Summer brings a number of opportunities for fun, from swimming and biking to theme park rides and sports. However, besides being a great way to enjoy the outdoors, all of these activities have something else in common - an unusually high instance...
Awarded in Multiple Coronary Specialties and Receives Mission: Lifeline Recognition by American Heart Association ENGLEWOOD, Colo., June 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Swedish Medical Center has been reaccredited by The Joint Commission for Cardiovascular Services and continues to be the only hospital in the state with accreditations in Advanced Heart Failure, Coronary Artery Bypass and Coronary Artery Disease. They have also received Mission: Lifeline Gold Level status recognition by the...
Latest Emergency medicine Reference Libraries
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, commonly known as CPR, is an emergency procedure performed in an effort to preserve brain function and manually pump blood through to the body’s vital organs, until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous circulation. CPR is indicated in cardiac arrest patients, but may also be performed on patients with an unresponsive presentation or those experiencing agonal breaths or severe and prolonged arrhythmias such as bradycardia or tachycardia. The first...
William Fisher is American physician and a former NASA Astronaut. He was born William Frederick Fisher on April 1, 1946, in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from North Syracuse Central High School in North Syracuse, New York in 1964. He continued on to attend Standford University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences in 1968. The following two years, Fisher worked on graduate studies in Microbiology and received a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Florida in 1975....
The Annals of Emergency Medicine is the official journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). It is a peer-reviewed medical journal founded in 1968 and published by Elsevier on behalf of the ACEP. The journal publishes original research, clinical reports, opinion, and educational information related to the practice, teaching, and research of emergency medicine. In addition to general emergency medicine topics, Annals of Emergency Medicine regularly publishes articles on...
