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MI Firefighters Commend Police Officers as Both Worked Together to Save a Life
The power of teamwork was recognized last month in Romulus, Michigan.
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When Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer Cecilia Morales heard people screaming for help, she knew if she didn’t act quickly, the outcome was going to be grim.
The McMurray Enhanced Airway quickly stents open a patient’s airway, facilitating ventilation and oxygenation.
The Ambu Bag has come to define the self-inflating manual resuscitation device that is part of the standard kit carried by first responders.
Millions of people around the globe die each year because of COPD, and nearly 16 million people in the U.S. have a form of the disease.
Many 9/11 survivors suffer from upper airway diseases or digestive disorders because of inhaling toxic dust after the fall of the Twin Towers
As Tunisia faces a surge of COVID-19 cases, demand for life-saving oxygen has grown higher than the supply.
Dispatchers Ashley White and Josh Rysavy each received Lifesaver Awards for their critical assistance in providing CPR instructions to callers who found family members unresponsive during separate incidences.
Barron County Emergency Services recently created a countywide Rescue Task Force capable of responding to an active shooter.
Sonia Sein is breathing freely again after getting an unusual transplant. In January, doctors at New York's Mount Sinai replaced her trachea.
The SafetyNeb Mask allows medical personnel to again provide nebulized treatments that is targeted directly into the patient’s lungs.
Warnings went unheeded at the start of the pandemic and doctors say the shortage has led to unnecessary deaths.
Researchers investigated the elapsed time between removal of oxygen sources and the loss of preoxygenation among non-critically ill patients.
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