Emergency medicine

The Von Bergh Global Medical Consulting group

Martin von Bergh MD PhD MBA, founder and CEO of Global Medical Consulting, is a practicing medical doctor, emergency physician and disaster manager, with an MBA in International Hospital Management.

Out-of-hospital digital documentation

Vital patient-related data must be documented by emergency medical services, disaster relief units and emergency physicians, in out-of-hospital settings, and currently most of this is done entered manually on paper.

THE 27th ISICEM

'Over 230 established and emerging international leaders in intensive care and emergency medicine will provide participants with a state-of-the art review of the most recent advances in diagnosis, monitoring, and management of critically ill patients,' Jean-Louis Vincent, Head of the Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium, promises the expected 5,000…

Jeep and quad to the rescue

Islanders on Usedom, in Germany's Baltic Sea, will be the first to see two unique rescue vehicles in action.

News • Anaesthesiology

Enhancing acute patient care

Dräger's Acute Care System is reported to be the first to offer a totally new approach to managing and delivering care across the entire acute care process - from emergency care to operating theatre, to critical care and neonatal care.

Article • Mobile AED

The world's smallest defibrillator

The Fred easyport, the only pocket defibrillator in the world, which Schiller brought onto the market three years ago, was a huge success so far. From next year on, the device will also supply a manual shock option. It is so small (133 x 126 x 50mm) and light (490 g including the battery) that for many doctors it is already standard equipment in their emergency bag.The fact that this ‘life…

Underage Alcohol Poisoning Increases In UK

Apparently, 20 children are diagnosed each day in the UK with alcohol poisoning.

The dual-use stethoscope

Emergency care doctors can now use just one stethoscope to tend either paediatric or adult patients.

Fire at Dusseldorf Airport

Dusseldorf Airport, 11th April 1996: During welding works, glowing cinders and metal pieces loosened then fell onto the false ceiling of the arrivals hall, which was coated with polystyrene. The smouldering fire turned into what must be the biggest airport fire in Europe.

Tracking and tracing victims

Rescue workers are often confronted with chaotically situations which are hard to sum up and coordinate.

Gliding comfortably away from danger

Evacuation chairs and systems: The revision of evacuation and first-aid procedures are among the many side effects in the aftermath of the 9/11 events in New York.

A central database portal for emergency medical service

corpuls.net is a database system that amalgamates recorded data and information for use by emergency medical services (EMS).

Terror attacks in Madrid

The 11/3/04 attacks consisted of a series of ten explosions aboard four commuter trains, during the height of the Madrid rush hour.

A “one-stop-shop” for disaster, rescue and emergency care

Visitors coming to MEDICA to purchase pre-hospital emergency equipment will not be disappointed. Specialist exhibitors are plentiful this year.

The extracorporeal lung

German medical technology firm Novalung GmbH (est. 2002) produces extracorporeal artificial lungs.

Asthma - Bavaria's novel care programme for youngsters

Thousands of children are hospitalised annually due to acute asthma attack. Special treatment, adapted to their individual needs, could prevent such emergencies.

The IMEC transport system

For the past 12 months the intensive care unit (ICU) at Nuremberg Hospital North, Germany, has been testing the IMEC transport system.

Todays treatments

Dr Christiane Eickelberg, of the University of Giessen Lung Centre (UGLC), outlines the centre's research projects, aims and academic offerings

The artificial patient

Basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Professor Paul Pepe and Dr Jane Wigginton discuss current research and concepts that will affect the future of basic CPR.

The all-in-one alarm and speech pager

The Personal Security Pager (PS-Pager), made by Bosch Security Systems, is an innovative mobile that houses two products: a personal alarm device and speech pager. Compact, lightweight, robust, comfortable and discreet to wear, the device is also as easy to handle as the messages are to read.