Emergency Medicine News

Linda Galvan, a nurse and the program director of wound care and hyperbaric medicine at Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center, will present a free seminar on foot health titled "Happy Feet" at 7 p.m. on Aug.

Older trauma patients are less likely to be transported to an official trauma center for immediate care than younger patients, a new study found.

From the Cardiac MR-PET-CT Program , Department of Radiology , Department of Emergency Medicine , and Cardiology Division , Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Leslie King sounded confident, even cocky. Forty-eight hours before the first mission of Flying Physicians International, the Ivy League graduate and emergency room doctor talked about the crowds she expected ...

Allison Van Dusen , Not prepared for the 2008 hurricane season? That's not a huge surprise.

When I attended nursing school 30years ago, occupational health and emergency medicine were overlooked.

Carena: What: The Centers for Disease Control and Annals of Emergency Medicine recently published studies that show two key trends.

New technology and the change to hands-only CPR are proving to be the difference between life, death and brain damage in cardiac arrest patients, emergency-medicine specialists say.The survival rate for ...

State Rep. Josh Green has a six-figure war chest at his disposal for his 3rd District state Senate run against fellow Democrat Virginia Isbell.

I think I was depressed for most of my life, until a few years ago. The lowest point hit when I was in my Emergency Medicine residency, just under ten years ago.

It wasn't the bumps and bruises that surprised emergency room physicians when they started looking into the dangers of texting.

Recreational drug preference linked to medical speciality: Following our piece on several cases of drug addiction in anaesthetists, I just found some interesting studies on how recreational drug preference ...

Professor Gary Geelhoed, Princess Margaret Hospital's emergency services chief, is the new president of the WA arm of the Australian Medical Association.

For wealthy Americans the numbers are ominous. Wait times for emergency care keep rising .

The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over the past decade, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday.

Paul Auerbach , MD, has been appointed professor of surgery , as of July 1. Auerbach, who serves as chief of the division of emergency medicine, is interested in wilderness medicine, frostbite, marine ...

As an emergency-room physician in Augusta, I wish to echo Dr. Robert M. Clark's concern regarding access to health care, and our looming shortage of primary care physicians .

EMERGENCY MEDICINE consultants are set to receive back-payments of up to 200,000 after the decision of an arbitrator that they were improperly deprived of private practice rights.

The elderly, people who aren't used to high temperatures and those who get over-exerted are most susceptible to heat-related illness, an emergency room doctor says.

A FEW MONTHS ago, I was signing off work at the emergency department. During "sign-out," aside from briefing your relief on the patients in the ER, you have a rare opportunity to talk to your colleagues, most ...