“Mayday, mayday, mayday!” A firefighter goes down on the fireground, is rescued and brought to a safe location. Now what? Do we have the right emergency medical training and equipment nearby to truly ...

YouTube has launched a new feature to help users quickly find actionable and easy-to-follow videos for basic first aid and emergency care from authoritative health organizations. Viewers searching for ...

Annabeth N. Llona, a member of the Legazpi City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) Emergency Quick Response Team, answers post assessment questions from Dr. Don Kenneth Parde, ...

AFTER nearly a dozen years of clinical, academic, and administrative work in the then-young EMS System, in the early 1980s, I ventured "outside the box" of "traditional" EMS (albeit, only 10 years old ...

Preparedness is on everyone's mind these days. Aside from the daily possibility of routine medical emergencies such as heart attack or workplace injury, there is additional urgency to be ready due to ...

Twenty-nine students completed the Community Emergency Response Team Basic Course and are qualified to become members of the Maui County CERT team, which is class to graduate since the start of the ...

An emergency medical technician (EMT) is a medical professional who gives emergency care to people outside of or on the way to the hospital. They can give basic medical and first-aid care until a ...

Patients who have a heart attack, stroke, respiratory failure or other emergency trauma have a better chance of survival if they were transported by basic life support ambulance rather than one ...