Emergency Medicine
A Practical Approach to the Evaluation of Consciousness with the Glasgow Coma Scale
Glasgow coma scale was first defined in 1974. It was designed as a unified scoring system for assessing a patient’s conscious state. During the four decades of use, several versions…
Read more ›Medical Coverage of Sports and Recreational Mass Events
Sports competitions and massive recreational events are among the events at increased risk for injuries, sudden cardiovascular complications and other diseases associated with intense physical activity. Therefore, good organization of…
Read more ›Considerations on Avalanche Survival, Therapeutic Principles, Self-rescue Techniques and Safety Equipment for Backcountry and Off-piste Skiers
The median annual mortality from snow avalanches registered in the 17 ICAR countries from 1981 to 1998 was 146. Swiss data document a mortality rate of 52.4% in completely-buried, versus…
Read more ›Emergency medical care in severe head injuries
Mortality after severe craniocerebral trauma still ranges between 18 and 50 percent. The author describes the hypertensive and hypotensive syndromes occurring directly after severe brain injury. The task of emergency…
Read more ›Prehospital Management of Patients with Cerebovascular Diseases
Acute stroke is increasingly recognized as one of the leading factors of morbidity and mortality in adult worldwide population, with a mortality rate in the acute stage of more than…
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