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The European Commission plans to stock up medical equipment for the treatment of disease COVID-19. The stockpile will include intensive care materials such as ventilators, protective masks and vaccines, said EU Commissioner for Crisis…

More and more countries report increasing numbers of cases of infection. Following the United States, the European Union is also closing itself off to the outside world in the coronavirus crisis. Besides that, technological solutions should…

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) play a vital role in responding to requests for assistance, triaging patients, and providing emergency medical treatment and transport for ill persons. Especially ambulance crews are very likely to encounter…

As Chinese officials broadened their definition of confirmed cases, over 60,000 cases of infected patients are now confirmed while 1,357 deaths are reported – most of which in mainland China. Meanwhile, 29 countries are affected. (Date…

Due to the recent coronavirus outbreak in china, the focus of airport authorities has shifted towards the detection of potentially infected. A central component of this is the thermal heat screening of body temperature.

It is believed that the source of the coronavirus was a wild animal at a fish market in Wuhan. According to experts, it was first transmitted from animal to human before the virus adapted to its new host and transmission between humans…

The purpose of this summary is to analyse the main problems of the hospital-based emergency care which are common to Italy and to the USA where hospital-based emergency is one the widely suited systems and usually occurs as a reference…

In the recent months, various new developments have set out to revolutionize the rescue industry. Coming from different countries all over the world, if proven successful, they could soon change the European EMS landscape as well.…

On April 16, 2017 there was an earthquake in Ecuador of 7.8 ° magnitude. In 24 hours, more than 500 deaths were assessed, so on April 18 the USAR Ericam and UME groups are activated. The ERICAM (Madrid Immediate Response to International…

Everyone who works in emergency services knows that these services are prepared to deal with the incidents of multiple victims that may occur. But there are many members of EMS teams who do not know that there are teams specialized in urban…