Emergency medical service attendances for adults with repeat falls in Western Australia: a state-wide retrospective cohort study - Watkins PM, Buzzacott P, Tohira H, Majewski D, Hill AM, Brink D, Brits R, Finn J.
OBJECTIVES: The risk of falls increases with age and often requires an emergency medical service (EMS) response. We compared the characteristics of patients attended by EMS in response to repeat falls within 30 days and 12 months of their first EMS-attende... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 10, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Sudan: Statement on Sudan from MSF International President
[MSF] ''Sudan is one of the worst crises the world has seen for decades. There are extreme levels of suffering across the country; the needs are growing by the day, but the humanitarian response is deeply inadequate. We have responded to multiple mass casualty events and emergencies over the past year. We have performed life-saving surgical procedures, assisted women to give birth - including with emergency C-sections - and treated children in our paediatric wards and inpatient therapeutic (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 10, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Conflict, Peace and Security East Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Sudan Source Type: news
Warning light prompts Boeing 737 MAX to make emergency landing in Idaho
Officials say an Air Canada flight headed from Mexico City to Vancouver, B.C., had an in-flight emergency and made an unscheduled landing at a Boise, Idaho, airport.#aircanada #mexicocity #boise #idaho (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bank of Canada says the country faces a productivity'emergency '
Canada must tackle weak productivity to inoculate the economy against factors that will drive future inflation, such as the pullback from globalization, said Carolyn Rogers, senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. tap here to see other videos…#carolynrogers #bankofcanada #halifax #g7 #canadians (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Health conference: Divided we fall
The debate on Agenda for Change pay merged into terms and conditions as business continued into the afternoon at health conference in Brighton.
Paying to work
First up were a group of motions that explored the various ways in which health workers are losing out financially in the course of their work. This included paying for their own uniforms, DBS checks, paying for hospital parking – with one delegate even saying her employer asked for staff to pay for their key-fobs.
Elsewhere motions discussed out-of-date mileage and subsistence rates with the mover of the mileage motion, Trudy Martin of the SGE, noting that: “HMR...
Source: UNISON Health care news - April 9, 2024 Category: UK Health Authors: Simon Jackson Tags: Article News 2024 National Health Conference agenda for change Source Type: news
Health: ‘ The government treats us like April fools ’ on pay
Business at health conference turned to pay on Tuesday morning.
First, conference discussed an emergency motion on NHS pay 2024-25. The motion pointed out that once again, the government has failed to conduct annual pay reviews in a timely fashion.
Moving the motion, James Anthony of the SGE said: “Like clockwork, in April, everything goes up. Bills council tax, everything. Except, like clockwork, NHS pay.
“Once again the government treats us like April fools.”
He highlighted that Band two members are now paid just one penny above the minimum wage: “A whacking 55p below the real living wage.”
The motion noted the...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - April 9, 2024 Category: Food Science Authors: Simon Jackson Tags: Article News 2024 National Health Conference nhs pay Source Type: news
Sudan: Dengue Fever Threatens Khartoum Bahri
[Dabanga] Bahri -- In an interview with Radio Dabanga yesterday, Ryan Saleh Eldin denounced the security situation and lack of medicine in Bahri (Khartoum North), where there are over 300 suspected cases of dengue fever. "The humanitarian conditions in Bahri are constantly deteriorating and there are no signs of the current crisis abating," a doctor from the Bahri Emergency Room told Radio Dabanga yesterday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 9, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Sudan Source Type: news
Factors that contribute to turnover and retention amongst emergency department nurses: a scoping review - McIntyre N, Crilly J, Elder E.
BACKGROUND: Internationally, the emergency nursing workforce shortage is of critical concern. AIM: To synthesise the evidence and assess the scope of literature regarding factors that contribute to turnover and retention amongst emergency nurses. ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 9, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Undocumented woman says she was denied emergency C-section at Edmonton hospital
Alberta Health Services is investigating after an undocumented woman says she was denied an emergency C-section at an Edmonton hospital last month. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Edmonton Source Type: news
Dramatic audio captures Southwest pilot declaring emergency after engine cover rips off
Dramatic cockpit audio captured the frantic pilot of a Southwest Airlines flight asking for an “immediate return” to Denver and declaring an emergency after an engine cover ripped off shortly after taking off with 143 people on board. “We don’t know the nature of the emergency but apparently…#southwestairlines #denver #houston #boeing #737800 #abc #samsweeney #southwest #houstonhobby #davecalhoun (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Senator Scrutinizes Physician Staffing Firms and Their Private Equity Owners
(MedPage Today) -- A Michigan senator has asked four emergency department staffing firms and the three private equity companies that own them for more information about their business practices following concerns raised by emergency physicians... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - April 8, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
UltraCon: Can standardized training improve eFAST learning?
AUSTIN, TX -- A standardized training curricula can be well-received by emergency faculty who are learning extended focused assessment with sonography in trauma (eFAST), a study presented at UltraCon found.
In her presentation, Jacqueline Gomberg, MD, from NYU Langone Health/Bellevue in New York showed that emergency medical staff expressed more positive attitudes toward performing eFAST exams after participating in training that takes less than two hours to attend.
“Our eFAST course was really well received,” Gomberg said. “Everyone … said that the session was very helpful and that it was likely to change their ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 8, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Source Type: news
Patient who died in Fredericton ER waiting room wasn't checked for more than 2 hours, inquest hears
No medical staff checked Darrell Mesheau's vital signs in the roughly two and a half hours before he died waiting for care at the Fredericton hospital's emergency department, a coroner's inquest heard Monday. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/New Brunswick Source Type: news
The deadly warning sign of heart disease that most commonly appears when you wake up
Not only can this "potentially lethal" symptom reveal and underlying heart condition but it can trigger deadly medical emergencies. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - April 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nail gun injury to the median nerve: a barbed issue - Chintapalli S, Phoenix E, Cullen S, Dolan R.
Nail gun injuries to the hand are an increasingly common encounter amongst those in the construction injury and a frequent presentation to the emergency department. Despite their frequency, nail gun injuries rarely involve significant structural injury. We... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
