Emergency Medicine

Most people don’t know that even after the paramedics arrive, there’s one more thing you can do to make a big difference for the victim of cardiac arrest: Make sure he or she gets treated at an emergency facility that practices “cooling”!

CPR coaching through a cell phone audio recording is one way to help bystanders overcome their fears and save lives in real time.

Forty-five percent of Americans – 135 million people – are more than an hour away from the facilities that are best equipped to care for them if they have a stroke.

A new test may save patients from unnecessary radiation from a diagnostic CT scan, eliminate extra tests and hours of hospital observation, and cut costs in the process.

New findings suggest that trauma patients are insulated from this so-called “weekend effect” in which quality of care varies with the time of day in which they’re brought to the hospital.

Women with chest pain are less likely than male patients to receive recommended, proven therapies while en route to the hospital, according to new research.