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5 Tips For Evaluating Air Ambulances For Emergency Flights

2010-03-13T11:45:05Z

Air ambulances are aircrafts that can be taken advantage of to reach a medical emergency where other more regular land-bound ambulances cannot. An air ambulance is also typically used when urgent transport to another hospital or medical facility is called for. Disasters can happen anytime, anywhere. There are times when the topography is too unmanageable or too out of the question to travel via roads. An air ambulance allows medical aid to reach the people in need in the blink of an eye.<b...

Air Ambulances: How Can I Find the Best Service For an Emergency?

2010-03-13T11:31:52Z

Air ambulances are aircrafts that may be taken advantage of to arrive at a medical emergency situation when other more common automotive ambulances cannot. An air ambulance is also typically employed when imperative transport to a hospital or health facility is required. Disasters can happen anytime, anywhere. There are instances when the landscape is too difficult or too unrealistic to travel by roads. An air ambulance permits medical aid to reach the people in need in the blink of an eye.&l...

Tech on TV ? ER Doctors on Call

2010-03-12T08:45:36Z

In U.S. hospitals, resident doctors are frequently on call for more than 80 hours a week, and in the long-running and award winning medical drama, ER, we get a sense of this burden and strain. The hospital asks a lot of the characters in the Emergency Room, with the County General paging system constantly interrupting the lives of its staff and their pager tones and ruining their day.<br><br>Their pagers wake them when they...

Big Miami-Dade hospital system nears insolvency

2010-03-10T15:45:37Z

<div><p>The city's major hospital network, which runs Miami's only round-the-clock trauma center and is a safety net for the poor and uninsured, is running out of money and could close, a predicament that illustrates the precarious financial state of many hospitals around the country.</p><p>The Jackson Health System will have little cash on hand by the end o...

Arizona Bus Crash

2010-03-06T20:33:31Z

Oscar Rodriguez, 11, talks to Gila River paramedics in his room at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, Saturday, March 6, 2010. Oscar, 11-years-old, was a passenger on the bus that overturned and was injured in the accident on Interstate 10 Friday. Despite h...

Parents Slow to Treat Children's Asthma Symptoms

2010-02-22T09:20:20Z

<div id="subtitle">Delays can carry serious consequences</div><div><p>While parents of young children with asthma often recognize signs that their child is about to have an asthma attack, they often delay home treatment until the attack occurs.</p><p>Results of the study by researchers at Washington University School o...

Vancouver Olympics Luge

2010-02-13T15:00:33Z

Paramedic Terrance Kosicar speaks to colleagues during a men's singles luge training run at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010. Kosicar was the paramedic who gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Nodar Kumaritashvili of

Man allegedly steals ambulance with patient inside

2010-02-22T10:33:45Z

<div id="subtitle">Authorities: Drunken man steals ambulance from Wis. ski area with patient, paramedics inside</div><div><p>Authorities say a drunken man stole an ambulance from a Wisconsin ski area with the patient and paramedics still inside. The Dane County Sheriff's Department says emergency ...

Medicare ÔhammerÕ hits UMC hard

2010-02-22T11:34:19Z

<div id="subtitle">Hospital working on ER issues to ensure funding</div><div><p> The federal government is threatening to halt Medicare payments to University Medical Center a sanction that could devastate the financially stricken hospital because of its failure to care for an uninsured pregnant woman in its emergency room.</p><p>About half of the hospitals operat...

No 'weekend effect' seen in trauma cases

2010-02-22T12:35:30Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who suffer a traumatic injury during the weekend or at night will fare just as well as people injured during the day or on a weekday, as long as they make it to a Level 1 trauma center for treatment, new findings show.</p><p>While studies have shown that people who have a heart attack or stroke during a hospital's off hours are less ...

U.S. to resume medevac flights from Haiti

2010-02-22T13:10:05Z

<div><p>PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The U.S. military will resume evacuation flights to the United States for critically injured Haitian earthquake victims within the next 12 hours, the NYC EMTs accused of refusing to help dying pregnant woman say they called dispatcher</div><div><p>Two New York City emergency medical technicians accused of refusing to help a dying pregnant woman while they were on a coffee break say they called their dispatcher at the request of a restaurant worker.</p><p>Ohio executioners</div><div><p>A pair of court filings Friday challenging Ohio's execution process provided additional details about the state's executioners, whose names are not released by the state. The team members gave anonymous court depositions in October that are sealed and not available for public review. The team members:</p>&...

UMC lacks way to log patientsÕ records

2010-02-22T23:10:01Z

<div id="subtitle">Health Division probe follows reported leaks of private data</div><div><p> University Medical Center has no system to track patient records, leading to numerous instances in which hospital paperwork containing Social Security numbers, birth dates and other private information goes missing, a state investigation has found.</p><p>The investigation was triggered by a

Afghan War Casualties Stream Into Army Trauma Bay In Khost, Afghanistan

2010-01-07T10:31:27Z

KHOST, AFGHANISTAN - JANUARY 07: Military medical staff attempt to save the life of an Afghan man who was wounded in fighting on January 7, 2010 at the trauma bay at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan. By 9:00 pm today ten casualties, including two Americans wounded, were brought to the hospital at Salerno while t...

UMC TROUBLES STACKING UP

2010-02-23T00:13:20Z

<div id="subtitle">State records suggest pattern of refusing care</div><div><p> The high-profile case of a pregnant woman who was refused treatment at the University Medical Center emergency room in November is just the latest in a handful of cases over the past five years in which the public hospital has refused to treat patients, according to records of state investigations obtained by the Sun.</p><p>UMC has at...

Inquiry backs horror story of pregnant woman neglected in UMCÕs ER

2010-02-23T00:45:10Z

<div><p> State health inspectors have verified that University Medical Center emergency room employees neglected to provide care to a pregnant woman who was in labor, which may have contributed to the death of her premature baby.</p><p>The finding is the first independent verification of what happened that night and will likely be used as evidence in a lawsuit against the hospital.</p><p>Roshunda Abney, 25, and h...

Vegas hospital sued by another pregnant woman

2010-02-23T07:33:31Z

<div id="subtitle">Vegas hospital sued by another pregnant woman who says she was ignored, lost baby</div><div><p>Another lawsuit has been filed against a Las Vegas hospital, alleging emergency room personnel failed to treat a pregnant woman in labor.</p><p>The two suits claim two different women gave birth prematurely and their babies died.</p>&...