If you’re a Type A Personality and need to have your list all checked off this blog’s for you. Ready.gov provides a handy little checklist of recommended items (hand crank radio, flashlight, batteries) to include in a basic emergency supply kit and additional items (sleeping bag, paper products, personal hygiene items) to consider adding […]

Whether or not you expect to find yourself in an emergency situation, there are a few items it never hurts to have on hand. Storms and natural disasters can strike with little warning, and being prepared is the best way to make it through emergency circumstances without panic.
Batteries
Electricity is the main thing that people take […]

Is it possible to increase the percentage of cardiac arrest patients walking out of a hospital neurologically intact? Of course anything is possible, but according to Jim Keiken, BS, MSM, EMT-P, the way to potentially achieve this goal requires a change in how you perform CPR. The change is called cardiocerebral resuscitation (CCR) […]

Veinlite is the best vein finder for vein access in children, neonates, emergency medicine, critical care, radiology and oncology.
So, what does it have that makes it the best? Innovative Side-Transillumination Technology, which is a method where a bright ring of light is placed on the skin and focused under the skin to form a […]

First aid kits should be stocked and ready to go so if you haven’t got yourself one here’s a list of basic first aid kit contents:

2 absorbent compress dressings (5 x 9 inches)
25 adhesive bandages (assorted sizes)
1 adhesive cloth tape (10 yards x 1 inch)
5 antibiotic ointment packets (approximately 1 gram)
5 antiseptic wipe packets
2 packets […]

Summer is in full effect and for some of us that means camping is on the horizon. Camping can be a blast or down right unbearable depending on how you go about it. Here are some camping health and safety tips to get you by:

Get vaccinated (hopefully you were up to date to […]

There’s no doubt about it. Asthma attacks are scary and they can be deadly. Here are some tips on how to handle an asthma attack from Capt. Nathan McConnell. Capt. McConnell has been an emergency medical technician since 1988.

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If it isn’t a drug shortage then it’s a drug recall. On June 15, 2010 McNeil Consumer Healthcare announced the recalls of four lots of Benadryl Allergy Ultratab Tablets, 100 Count, and one product lot of Extra Strength Tylenol Rapid Release Gels, 50 Count.
When you check your medicine cabinet here’s what you need to […]