Emergency Medicine

NEW YORK — Video from a surveillance camera at a Brooklyn hospital shows a woman dying on the floor of a psychiatric emergency-room while staffers initially ignore her.

Animation shows how a burst fracture of the vertebra displaces bone fragments in all directions and compresses the spinal cord. This was developed for an attorney and used as a medical/legal exhibit.

Thomas, who lives in West Virginia, is being called a medical miracle after she suffered two heart attacks and had no brain waves for more than 17 hours; reports NewsNet5.com.

But data based on telephone surveys and in-person interviews, published on April 14 in The Annals of Emergency Medicine, tell a different story...

Little-known ‘failure to rescue' is most common hospital safety mistake...

Calls from obese patients had increased nearly 25 percent in recent years, and the Fire Department could no longer handle them.

...rapid, deep presses on the victim's chest until help arrives — works just as well as standard CPR for sudden cardiac arrest in adults.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new medical adhesive (a fibrin sealant) called Artiss for use in attaching skin grafts onto burn patients.

FDA advises health care practitioners to switch suppliers and limit use of drug until problem identified