Search Tag: emergency medicine
2017 16 Jun
Point-of-care ultrasound is helping clinicians at the Great North Trauma and Emergency Centre to assess a wide range of patients Point-of-care (POC) ultrasound is now commonly used in emergency departments throughout the UK. These instruments provide valuable insight for the assessment of both trauma and non-trauma patients, as well as...Read more
2017 05 Jun
At the Euroanaesthesia Congress in Geneva this year, experts discussed the unusual and challenging problem of performing emergency medical procedures during space missions. Dr Matthieu Komorowski, Consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK explains that there are missions planned to the Moon and Mars in the coming...Read more
2017 11 Feb
1. Search for Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Drowning Victims Using a drone to locate submerged drowning victims could save time by transmitting aerial video of the search area to a tablet. A simulated study from Scandinavia (Claesson et al. 2017), of 20 searches for a manikin using a drone compared to a search party of lifesavers alone, found...Read more
2017 22 Mar
SWESEM is the Swedish Society for Emergency Medicine, the national association for Swedish Emergency Physicians. We are happy to see Emergency Medicine become a primary specialty in Sweden 2015. Find SWESEM on Social Media Read more
2016 01 Nov
Point-of-care (POC) ultrasound is playing an increasing role in emergency medicine, providing the tools to help physicians rapidly and efficiently assess a wide range of patients. Dr Alberto Ángel Oviedo García, an emergency medicine specialist at the Hospital de Valme in Seville, has been instrumental in developing the use of POC ultrasound in Andalusia,...Read more
2016 27 Sep
Managing patients with accidental hypothermia with and without cardiac arrest is covered in a recently published state-of-the-art review, endorsed by the International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine. Extracorporeal life support is the “treatment of choice” in patients with unstable circulation or cardiac arrest. Peter Paal and colleagues...Read more
2017 18 May
Be PREMpared! This second PREM congress will aim to re-invent itself, having learned from the first edition and your input, growing in terms of participants but also in terms of the quality of what we present to you. This congress is organised by the departments of Pediatrics, Intensive Care, Anesthesiology and Emergency Medicine of the University...Read more
2017 03 Jun
Euroanaesthesia is Europe’s largest annual event showcasing the latest and the most relevant knowledge with medical experts active in the field of anaesthesia, perioperative medicine, intensive care, emergency medicine and pain treatment. This international event gathers thousands of delegates and exhibitors from over 80 countries. Upwards of 6000...Read more
2016 26 May
ISCCM Pune Branch and The Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels decided to come together to conduct this symposium, consisting of a select set of presentations made at the preceding ISICEM, Brussels, in Pune, India. Eminent faculty who will have participated in ISICEM at Brussels in March 2016 have been invited...Read more
2016 19 May
Fire-Service Based EMS Awards Presented at 28 th Annual National Fire and Emergency Services Dinner The Congressional Fire Services Institute (CFSI) and Masimo honored two fire departments for best practices and innovative solutions in the delivery of emergency medical services with the Excellence in Fire Service-Based EMS Award. The award...Read more
2016 07 Sep
World Interactive Network Focused On Critical UltraSound (WINFOCUS) is global organisation based in Milano, uniting key world experts and researchers in the field. It is probably single most important, most influential and crucial world organization in the field, that has helped bring about this revolution of point-of-care ultrasound! It gives us...Read more
2016 01 Oct
EuSEM holds an annual congress, usually in the autumn, in different European countries. The congress is organised by EuSEM and the national emergency medicine society of the country in which it is held and is referred to as ‘European Congress on Emergency Medicine’ (ECEM). In accordance with the goals of EuSEM, the objective of these congresses is...Read more
2016 16 Jun
The “Neurosciences in Intensive Care International Symposium” (NICIS) intends to promote Neuroscience as a central paradigm for research in the realm of critical care medicine. The current NICIS held on June the 16th-17th 2016 is titled “Neuro-inflammation in Critical illness: From brain signaling to brain insult” . The NICIS 2016 builds on success...Read more
2016 12 Feb
FUJIFILM SonoSite Inc. , specialists in developing cutting-edge ultrasound solutions and providing world-leading education to enable point-of-care visualization access, announced CE mark and 510(k) clearance for its new portable ultrasound system, the SonoSite Edge II. Designed with emergency medicine and critical care applications in mind, the Edge...Read more