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Co-Founder of Seattle Fire Medic One Program Passes Away
Dr. Leonard Cobb will be remembered for being a co-founder of the Seattle Fire Medic One program and for helping to create bystander CPR training.
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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.

A two-month-old infant is in stable condition Sunday after being revived by a pair of police officers after the baby had stopped breathing.

Continuous positive pressure ventilation (CPAP) is making big waves in EMS right now. How exactly does it work?

A majority of the Bellingham City Council voted Monday night to authorize the mayor to settle a claim for damages filed with the city by a daughter of the deceased man Bellingham Fire Department employees practiced performing endotracheal intubations on in summer 2018.

Though cigarette smoking rates are declining in the United States, they are increasing in many other countries, making COPD a global health issue.

Wildfires churning out dense plumes of smoke as they scorch huge swaths of the U.S. West Coast have exposed millions of people to hazardous pollution levels.

When you breathe in smoke from a wildfire, you’re probably inhaling more toxic chemicals than you realize.

British scientists are beginning a small study comparing how two experimental coronavirus vaccines might work when they are inhaled by people instead of being injected.
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