· A paradigm shift in trauma care: The circulation-airway-breathing (CAB) sequence has gained acceptance over the past decade over the airway-breathing-circulation (ABC) model for patients with severe ...

When a patient is suffering a trauma that results in massive blood loss, focusing on stopping the bleeding first and then moving to restore the airway second is the best method for patient outcomes, ...

I love to make things easy to remember and repeat, because our job requires us to remember more than we have the ability to. We all learned that the ABC acronym (airway, breathing, circulation) is the ...

This article, the second in our six-part series on critical care, discusses the role of systematic patient assessment in recognising and managing a deteriorating patient. This article comes with a ...

Annually, there are over 11 million diagnoses of hypotension in the U.S. alone. These cases result from a variety of clinical conditions including cardiac arrest, traumatic injury, head trauma, septic ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Brooke Army Medical Center medics exchanged best practices with more than 40 Honduran Red Cross volunteers and paramedics during a four-hour pre-hospital training ...

It can be hard to know whether to go to the ER or urgent care for your condition. Dr. Troy Madsen, University of Utah Hospital emergency department physician, gives some guidelines for making that ...