Tag: Officer Safety

My partner and I watched the girl walking toward us. She was dressed in a pair of red shorts, high heels and a loose top. A couple of years ago, ...

CHICAGO -- With 35 deaths so far, 2008 is the worst on record in the U.S. for accidents involving emergency medical helicopters -- aircraft that experts describe as the most ...

In 1996, a revolutionary concept occurred in military medicine. Until then, battlefield prehospital trauma care followed the same guidelines developed for the urban U.S. civilian environment. But following the October 3, 1993, ...

Few medical topics invoke as much passionate debate as the use of tourniquets to control traumatic hemorrhage. Discussions regarding the role that this potentially life-saving device should play in the ...

1. Must Stop Arterial Bleeding in Lower Extremities   · Must be 100% effective in clinical environment  · Must account for large girth lower extremities (95% male soldier=26.7") 2. Optimal ...

Few issues in the long and colorful history of medicine have generated as much controversy and confusion as the use of tourniquets to arrest severe extremity hemorrhage. As with many ...

A trauma surgeon was recently involved in a case where stress affected his ability to perform a tracheotomy. The case involved a tactical team officer, who was brought to the ...

“It is appropriate that experience during unavoidable ‘epidemics of trauma’ be exploited in improving our national capability to provide better surgical and medical care for our citizens.”  Spurgeon Neel,  Colonel, ...

You check your rig and prepare for another shift full of chest pain and dyspnea calls. But what you don’t know is that terrorists have walked unabated into a middle ...

WASHINGTON -- A new government program aims to make it more difficult for terrorists to steal dangerous radioactive material from the nation's hospitals and medical research labs to make "dirty ...