MCMC to open medical trade center
The News Review:
- MCMC to open medical trade center
- Antarctic team boosts medical care with 3D ultrasound
- Tasers: Medical Consequences f Police Use f Force During …
- More medical aid to Sri Lanka
- Lawsuit filed in Ind. medical helicopter crash
- NYC hospital buildings evacuated after tunnel fire
MCMC to open medical trade center
Bizjournals.com
said Monday it will move into the next stage of developing an international medical trade center in Nashville Tenn. Dallas-based MCMC said the. The company says the center would serve as a U.
Related from Transitions-for-women: Cleveland’s Med Mart May Be Getting Competition
Antarctic team boosts medical care with 3D ultrasound
Reuters
Australia’s Antarctic Division operates some of the world’s most remote outposts and assignments on the icy blizzard-prone continent have been likened to working on a space mission. Dealing with a medical emergency or trying to make a complex diagnosis has always been a challenge and during the long winter months of isolation evacuation is impossible leaving station doctors to treat all manner of illnesses. To boost medical care the division and the Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia are developing a set of guidelines that would allow staff with minimal medical training to use newly developed 3D diagnostic ultrasound. "This the first study that involves 3D or ultrasonic volume imaging in extreme medicine" project member Marilyn Zelesco a sonographer at Royal Perth Hospital told Reuters. Extreme medicine is conducted in very remote locations. The idea is for the images to be stored and then forwarded to specialists for analysis aiming to free up the outpost doctor and provide an extra level of medical care.
Tasers: Medical Consequences f Police Use f Force During …
Science Daily (press release)
Jared Strote at the University of Washington Medical Center led a group that examined the medical records of nearly 900 patients subdued by the Seattle Police Department with a Taser over a six-year period. Less than one percent required hospital admission for an injury related to the restraint incident. No deaths occurred even when patients exhibited signs of excited delirium. See also:Health & MedicineToday’s HealthcareAccident and TraumaPersonalized MedicineMedical ImagingWorkplace HealthPain ControlReference.
More medical aid to Sri Lanka
Hindu
3 crore to Sri Lanka on Friday for disbursal among the sick and wounded internally displaced persons (IDP) in northern Sri Lanka. An Indian Air Force Il-76 carrying about 25 tonnes of medicines is scheduled to leave here for Colombo a Defence Ministry release said here on Monday. The Indian Armed Forces have set up a fully equipped 50-bed hospital close to an IDP camp at Pulmodai a town on Sri Lanka’s northeast coast. The 60-member medical team comprising specialists surgeons and paediatricians have treated over 3000 people mainly war wounded for trauma and fractures in the past two months since the hospital came up.
Lawsuit filed in Ind. medical helicopter crash
Chicago Tribune
medical helicopter crashAssociated Press1:15 PM CDT May 18 2009 INDIANAPLIS – The family of a flight nurse killed with twoother people when a medical helicopter crashed last summer hasfiled a lawsuit on behalf of the woman’s two children. The lawsuit which seeks compensation for the death of SandraPearson 38 maintains that the helicopter’s main rotor bladeeither contacted unmarked power lines or “spontaneously separatedwithout contact” causing the deadly crash. 31 along with pilot Roger Warren 43 andparamedic and base manager Wade Weston 38 when the rotor came offtheir Bell 206 Longranger before it crashed in a field outsideBurney about 40 miles southeast of Indianapolis. Attorneys hired by National Bank of Indianapolis filed thelawsuit in Marion Superior Court last week on behalf of Pearson’stwo children Gabrielle 8 and Garrett 10.
NYC hospital buildings evacuated after tunnel fire
The Associated Press
The victims were examined at the hospital and released. Fire officials say the blaze started in an electrical panel in an underground tunnel and was under control about two hours later. Firefighters used fans to get smoke out of the building. About 300 people in an outpatient building and a support services building were evacuated.
Written by admin on May 18th, 2009 with
no comments.
Read more articles on News.