Emergency Medicine News

People wait in a lengthy line to get H1N1 flu shots last month during a clinic held in the offices of Columbus Public Health.

In 2002, emergency medicine specialists at the Denver Health Medical Center wanted to find out how much response times affected the survival of the major trauma patients they treated - often the victims of car crashes, gunshots and stabbings.

For five desperate minutes, emergency room doctors at UC Davis Medical Center frantically tried to revive Scott Hawkins.

On September 30, 2009, a new law took effect in Arizona making it more difficult for patients to bring medical malpractice claims against ER doctors and others providing emergency medical treatment.

GUEST FASHION EDITOR: Dr. Allison Silver Schwartz After living in scrubs for 14 years for her job as an emergency medicine physician, Dr.

The state Health Department's Emergency Medicine and Trauma Education Centre began a three-day workshop at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital on Wednesday.

A study by emergency physicians at Children's Hospital Boston provides a wakeup call to parents to get rid of their old glass thermometers.

The number of emergency room doctors at the Saint John Regional Hospital is on the rise again.

It seems that each day brings a new piece of information, or a recommendation regarding the H1N1 virus.

For the first time, emergency room services meeting international standards will be a part Tanzania's public health system, thanks to the opening of a new Emergency Medical Department building and extensive training being conducted at Muhimbili National Hospital.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that the clinic opened Monday and will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Record numbers of patients are stretching Christchurch Hospital's emergency department.

Coimbatore: The government plans to set up more trauma care centres on highways in two phases, and acquire 300 more ambulances, according to V.K. Subburaj, Principal Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare.

Emergency doctors at Children's Hospital Boston began seeing an increase in what they think are swine flu cases over last weekend, Dr.

This literature review examines the use of simulators for teaching in emergency medicine and covers some of their advantages and disadvantages, and evidence for their use.

The Comprehensive Stroke Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center launched a tele-stroke network to help patients in rural communities receive state-of-the-art stroke therapies.

PHILADELPHIA, PA, October 28, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Attorney Evan Y. Liu, M.D., J.D. of the Philadelphia personal injury law firm Feldman, Shepherd, Wohlgelernter, Tanner, Weinstock & Dodig has been appointed to the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Minority Bar Committee.

Recently, surgeons and emergency room physicians at the Rocky Mountain Regional Trauma Center in Denver noticed a troubling trend.

LONDON, ENGLAND, October 28, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Hays, the world's leading recruitment experts in qualified, professional and skilled people, has reported that the acute shortages felt across the nursing sector in the UK has led to demand for professional staff from overseas.

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