Emergency Medicine News

Emergency room doctors at Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital said combining the cold weather and physically demanding activities, like shoveling snow, can triple some people's chances of suffering a heart attack.

It's a frightening situation that has emergency room doctors and marijuana dispensary owners very concerned.

Michael Carius, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Norwalk Hospital, will complete his term as President of the American College of Emergency Physicians at the end of October.

Other recommendations from the Diamante report: o COMMISSION A STUDY ON EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES: Washoe County and the District Board of Health should commission a study on the emergency medical services system.

By Sarah Dunn AN ACADEMIC from the University of Sheffield has become the first woman in the country to be made a professor in the field of emergency medicine.

The University of Maryland Medical Center has earned international recognition for its shock trauma center, which treats patients with severe injuries.

St. Mary Medical Center is holding an open house Wednesday night for its new wound healing and hyperbaric medicine center.

Four new emergency physicians have been recruited to work in the Saint John Regional Hospital's emergency department, bringing the number of emergency room doctors to 18.

A team of four doctors and three nurses from Stanford 's Emergency Medicine Division returned to the Bay Area after spending two weeks in Port-au-Prince , Haiti 's earthquake-ravaged capital.

Senior Troy Underbrink has always been interested in medicine. To help develop this interest, Underbrink has volunteered for seven years as a nursing assistant at the Harborview Medical Center, the primary level one trauma center for the entire Northwest.

The five-member peer review team charged with assessing Peterborough Regional Health Centre's management, finances and operations was announced yesterday.

As temperatures plummet, the risk of winter-related injuries and health problems rises, but a trip to the emergency room can be avoided by following local doctors' orders.

On his first day in Haiti, earthquake victims were airlifted 75 miles from Port-au-Prince to where Dr.

A measure to legalize medical marijuana in Maryland would create state-run production centers that supporters said Tuesday would be closely monitored and licensed by the state.

Dr. Ken White and nine other physicians plan to head to Haiti Wednesday in an effort to help the victims of the earthquake that rocked Port-Au-Prince two weeks ago.

From Stroke Center and Department of Neurology , David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif; Division of Emergency Medicine , David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.

Abstract Clinical decision making is a cornerstone of high-quality care in emergency medicine.

Just 20 years ago, overall equine survival of surgical colic hovered at 39-48% due to anesthetic complications and breakdown of surgical incisions.

As the world watched front-line medical response in Haiti this week, 92 northern Ontario students were learning emergency medicine and disaster response skills at the West Parry Sound Health Centre.

MANSFIELD - Jeffrey Trager, D.O., has been named medical director of the MedCentral/Shelby Hospital Emergency Department.