If you or someone you love is injured, I hope you are comforted to know some of the very best emergency medical care is available close to home. When a trauma occurs, minutes count, and at Reading ...
NEMSQA’s latest measures report finds that routine, high-frequency actions like preventing hypoxia in TBI and timely trauma alerts drive outcomes more than rarely performed procedures ...
I love to make things easy to remember and repeat, because our job requires us to remember more than we have the ability to. We all learned that the ABC acronym (airway, breathing, circulation) is the ...
The care you receive in a medical emergency may hinge strongly on where you are when you need it. That's a key takeaway from a comprehensive review of the nation's emergency medical service systems by ...
Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event that can manifest in a range of emotional and physical symptoms, with the potential to develop into a mental health condition like PTSD if symptoms ...
Any officer who has ever attended active shooter response training—which should be every officer on the street today—will tell you that the large bulk of the training focuses on 1) getting to the ...
Behind the secure gates of Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, doctors and surgeons provide lifesaving trauma care not only to service members but also to Portsmouth and the surrounding communities.