I love to make things easy to remember and repeat, because our job requires us to remember more than we have the ability to. We all learned that the ABC acronym (airway, breathing, circulation) is the ...

Motivation: Upon arrival on the scene, EMT-B's sometimes mistake dramatic fractures for life threatening injuries. The intent of this drill is to remind rescuers that extremity trauma rarely causes a ...

Flail chest refers to a type of injury that follows a blunt trauma to the chest. It happens when three or more ribs are each broken in more than one place, causing a segment of bone to detach from the ...

NEWNAN, Ga. - Damar Hamlin’s collapse is turning the focus of many to a condition called Commotio Cordis. It occurs when athletes get hit in the chest so hard, it stops their heart’s electrical cycle.

Flail chest is an injury that occurs typically following a blunt trauma to the chest. When three or more ribs in a row have multiple fractures within each rib, it can cause a part of your chest wall ...

People who have had urgent 3D imaging for major trauma have a provisional written radiology report within 60 minutes of the scan. Obtaining the results of 3D imaging for chest trauma, haemorrhage and ...

A sharp pain in the chest or ribs when breathing in may be due to a muscle strain or anxiety. It can also sometimes indicate an injury, pneumonia, pleurisy, or pericarditis, which may need urgent ...

• Early chest tube removal (≤3 days post-insertion) is feasible, and the rates of complications and interventions are comparable to late tube removal. • Management and timing of chest tube removal ...

This first article in a series on trauma nursing introduces the main aspects of major trauma, the different elements of the trauma care pathway from pre-hospital care to rehabilitation, and the ...

GERD-related chest pain is frequently described as burning or sharp and may be accompanied by a sour taste. Chest pain from GERD can often be distinguished from cardiac pain, which can feel like ...