News tagged with ambulance
'Brief History' scientist Stephen Hawking 'very ill': university
Stephen Hawking, the wheelchair-bound British physicist whose book "A Brief History Of Time" became an international best-seller, is "very ill" in hospital, Cambridge University said Monday.
Apr 20, 2009 |
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'Invisible bracelet' for emergency health alerts?
(AP) -- Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation's ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient's health history during a crisis - and which can immediately text-message ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Saving heart attack patients in the middle of the night
When Joyce Moss recently arrived at Loyola University Hospital with a life-threatening heart attack, it took just 42 minutes to perform an emergency balloon angioplasty.
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Toronto's entertainment district 'hot-spot' for violence-related injuries
Each day people living in large urban centres are injured as the result of violent acts such as physical assault. While existing research tells us where such events are most likely to happen, a new study by Canadian scientists ...
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Fat patients force British ambulances to supersize
Britain is having to buy new ambulances and upgrade others to cope with a growing number of fat patients as an obesity crisis grips the country, a report said Thursday.
Feb 03, 2011 |
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Ambulance
An ambulance is a vehicle for transportation of sick or injured people to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury, and in some instances will also provide out of hospital medical care to the patient. The word is often associated with road going emergency ambulances which form part of an emergency medical service, administering emergency care to those with acute medical problems.
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