When you need medical transportation from one hospital to another, you want your wait time to be as short as possible.

While you may want to be taken somewhere else, the assessment by the paramedics will ultimately trump your demands if your condition is severe. In many EMS systems, serious trauma patients must be ...

More NHS patients who need elective care will be able to decide where they are treated under new Government plans to slash waiting lists. The NHS App will be overhauled to give patients more ...

Plans for an upgraded NHS App to allow more patients in England to book treatments and appointments will be part of a package of measures unveiled by the government on Monday. The changes will ...

UTICA — Due to a large amount of patients in its emergency room over part of the weekend, Wynn Hospital had to divert ambulance and EMS patients — except for cases of heart attacks ...

Advanced health and assessment practice allows healthcare professionals to the develop the cognitive, affect and psychomotor domains associated with the delivery of advance health to patients.

It is critical that EMS providers rapidly recognize ... and causing subcutaneous emphysema to form under the skin of the face, neck and chest. A patient may show a rapid onset of what appears ...

With the current stroke chain of survival, involving symptom recognition, emergency medical service (EMS) activation, patient assessment and triage, followed by transport to the nearest best hospital, ...

This form of abuse can put a child in danger ... CPS or APS Prehospital clinicians should conduct a complete assessment on all patients, even if it is believed that the patient is suffering ...

To access Developing History Taking and Physical Assessment for the Adult Patient/Client - Stand Alone Module. you must be a registered healthcare professional with evidence of the ability to study at ...

Figure 1. Cause of death in prevalent dialysis patients in the United States, 2005 to 2007. 1 AMI indicates acute myocardial infarction; CHF, congestive heart failure; CVA, cerebrovascular accident.