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1. ER physician thrives on healing the unknown

Brian Saracino - is an emergency room physician at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Hospital and he looks forward to every day and the uncertainty of what he may encounter.

2. Lexington Memorial Hospital to open wound-care center

Lexington Memorial Hospital said yesterday that it plans to open a wound-care center in Lexington by late May.

3. CRH staff returns from Haiti earthquake relief

Four doctors and two nurses - part of Culpeper Regional Hospital's medical staff - are back from Haiti after spending time aiding earthquake victims.

4. Bulgaria's Sliven District Prosecutor Dies Suddenly

Bulgariaa s Chief Prosecutor, Boris Velchev, submitted with VSS at the end of 2009 the candidature of now deceased Sliven District Prosecutor.

5. Parents give kids vitamins, but don't always tell doctors: study

Parents often give children multivitamins and other supplements but don't always share that information with doctors, even though there could be interactions between vitamins and other drugs, a new study says.

6. St. Joseph's Hospital Partners With WVU's Dept. of Emergency Medicine

St. Joseph's Hospital in Buckhannon has partnered with West Virginia University's Department of Emergency Medicine.

7. Flying doctors will cover all of Scotland to save dozens of patients' lives

By LYNDSAY MOSS A LIFE-SAVING flying doctor service is to be extended across Scotland to help more patients get earlier access to vital treatment.

8. Deep chill saves Ala. man after heart fails

An oxygen mask over his mouth didn't help and, two miles from the UAB Emergency Department , the Honda assembly line worker blacked out.

9. Conditions that cause heart problems can also lead to strokes

Years ago, when EMTs and paramedics were new to the structure of emergency medicine, some medical conditions were either poorly understood or had limited prevention and treatment modalities.

10. Physician tells of working in 'chaotic hell'

Scott Plantz was in Haiti Feb. 19-23 to volunteer at a hospital for survivors of the earthquake that left hundreds of thousands of Haitians in need of care.

11. Emergency medicine seminar

Kozhikode: The Malabar Institute of Medical Science , Kozhikode, will organise the second edition of the Indo-American emergency medicine seminar and workshop at the institute here on March 13 and 14.

12. Doctors and Paramedics Teach The Difficult Airway Course: EMS in South Korea

Michael Murphy, MD, has taught hundreds of sessions of the Difficult Airway Course: EMS in the U.S. But this past October, he taught the very first one in South Korea.

13. ABEM is over-reaching their role

The American Board of Emergency Medicine describes itself as: Welcome to theA American Board of Emergency Medicine public website.A ABEM certifies qualifying physicians who specialize in Emergency Medicine and is a member board of the American Board of Medical Specialties .A ABMS certification is sought and earned byA physicians on a voluntary ...

14. Excellence: MGH doctor receives award

MARION - Suffering from post-surgery debilitation, Kelly Makowski needed help and wasn't finding it.

15. Hormone Treats Brain Injury

Patients in 17 medical centers across the country who have suffered traumatic brain injury soon will be treated with the hormone progesterone in addition to receiving standard medical care.

16. Group Aims to Reduce Child Choking Deaths

Feb. 22, 2010 -- The nation's largest group of pediatric physicians is calling on federal officials and private industry to step up efforts to reduce choking deaths among children.

17. Trauma no longer defined as a Surgical Disease

In Annals of Emergency Medicine today : The new 8th edition of the Advanced Trauma Life Support course manual1 contains a small but significant change.

18. Children's curiosity can lead to choking

Of the 52,020 calls the Pittsburgh Poison Control Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center received last year, 2,183, or 4.2 percent, involved swallowing foreign objects.

19. Influence of international emergency medicine opportunities on residency program selection.

Tags Abstract OBJECTIVES: In the last several years, there has been increasing interest in international emergency medicine programs.

20. Sex hormone trial for head injury

Natural progesterone, the sex hormone used in the first contraceptive pills, is to be tested on patients with severe head injuries.

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