New research being presented at the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) in Milan, Italy (4–6 June), shows it is practical to learn how to do ...

The back of an ambulance is one of the most demanding clinical environments in healthcare. EMS providers must make fast, high stakes decisions while managing airway, ventilations, monitoring, ...

Learn the essentials of CPR and how to effectively save a life during cardiac emergencies with these critical techniques.

Understand why routine lactate rechecks every 3–4 hours for days, prompting more fluids and vasopressors, can worsen outcomes.

Three recent studies have found that when untrained bystanders perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation as part of CPR on people who are in cardiac arrest, it does not improve patient survival rates. In ...

September 5, 2012 (London, United Kingdom) — Many professionals treating in-hospital cardiac arrest often find it difficult to give up their resuscitation even after the effort is probably futile, so ...

The American Heart Association and Laerdal Medical renew public/private alliance to advance lifesaving solutions; aim to be catalyst for improving access to quality emergency care worldwide “We have ...