Albert Einstein Medical Center

Full list of Albert Einstein Medical Center results

• The best tools for firefighter rehab sectors

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  One of the challenges of the EMS provider in rehab is to quickly do intake and assessment

• Rehab and refusals: What you should do

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  At a large fire, multiple people, many with vitals outside of the normal range, come through the rehab sector

• Hypothermia on the fireground

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  Hypothermia can occur anywhere and anytime; even summer

• Cold injuries: Frostnip, frostbite and cold immersion foot

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  With rehab we often focus on the dangers of overheating, but cold injuries can be just as big a threat during winter months

• 'Just a routine fire'

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  EMS never thought they would be treating a victim from a life-threatening exposure to a chemical weapon from World War I

• Atrial fibrillation: More than an irregular heart beat

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  AF is the most common cardiac rhythm disturbance and failing to treat it properly could result in an eventual stroke

• Research puts rehab technology to the test

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  A recent rehab study compared active and passive cooling devices for firefighters

• How to incorporate tourniquets on the fireground

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  Tourniquets can be an important part of EMS on the fireground if you know when to use them, which types to use, and how to remove them

• Prehospital tourniquet use: An old tool revisited

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  Classical bleeding control sometimes doesn't completely work, and in these cases a tourniquet may be just what you need

• Jumper down: Trauma care at the fire scene

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  Knowing where to focus your attention can be the difference between life and death for a trauma patient on the fireground

• The lowdown on low back pain

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  Low back pain can affect the strongest and most muscular firefighter — in some ways they are more susceptible because they have more muscle to tear

• Burn care on the fireground

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  There is often a chaotic scene as burn victims are usually pulled out of the fire early, which easily distract responders

• Treatment tips for fireground electrical injuries

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  Under certain conditions, firefighters who have been shocked on the fireground may not need to be transported to a hospital

• START Method Makes Triage Fast, Simple

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  By Dr. Ken Lavelle, MD, NREMT-PYou are settling in for a busy Saturday night in an urban Fire and EMS department. At approximately 4 a.m. you are dispatched to a working fire in an apartment comple...

• A CPR Change You Need to Make

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  By Dr. Ken Lavelle, MD, NREMT-PYou are standing by at a fire in a strip mall. Rehab has gone well, and the weather conditions have cooperated — temperatures are cool. Suddenly you hear commotion fr...

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