Fatal Pediatric Anaphylaxis Linked to Delays in Epinephrine Treatment
New studies suggest that airway and breathing failures are the primary causes of death in childhood food anaphylaxis, requiring a shift in emergency management protocols.
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Fatal Pediatric Anaphylaxis Linked to Delays in Epinephrine Treatment
New studies suggest that airway and breathing failures are the primary causes of death in childhood food anaphylaxis, requiring a shift in emergency management protocols.
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Naloxone May Not Fully Reverse Respiratory Depression From Synthetic Opioids
Standard doses of naloxone are often insufficient to restore normal breathing during opioid-induced respiratory depression (OIRD) after overdoses involving fentanyl and sufentanil.
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More than 11 million people became gun owners for the first time, with most being women, Hispanic, or people of color.
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Concern Over Preparedness for Teen Cardiac Emergencies
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Pediatric Readiness in the Emergency Department
Emergency care experts outline what every emergency department (ED) needs to be ready to care for children and adolescents—an effort that could save more than 2,100 lives nationwide each year.
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Zoll Zenix Monitor/Defibrillator Receives MDR Approval
Zoll Medical’s Zenix monitor/defibrillator is now approved under the European Union’s Medical Device Regulation 2017/745, commonly referred to as EU MDR.
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Intoxicated ED Patients Misdiagnosed, Receive Less Prehospital Care
Intoxicated patients received fewer prehospital emergency interventions, including intubation, sedation, fluid therapy, and circulatory support.
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UCSF Launches Second Neonatal Transport
An Oakland-based neonatal transport unit will provide lifesaving NICU care for critically ill newborns in Northern California.
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Dynarex Recognizes EMS Captain for Outstanding Service
Dynarex presented EMS Captain Jeremy Sonenschein with the 2025 Dynarex EMS First Responder Caring Award at the EMS World Expo 2025 in Indianapolis.
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Occupational Hazards a Risk Factor for Developing COPD
COPD Foundation and partners are raising awareness of risks for occupational COPD development, especially amongst firefighters and other first responders.
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Zoll Zenix Monitor/Defibrillator Gets FDA Premarket Approval
Zoll Medical’s Zenix monitor/defibrillator has received premarket approval (PMA) from the US FDA, according to the company.
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Real-Time CPR Coaching May Help Bystanders Take Action
Bystander confidence to administer life-saving aid like CPR rises to almost 10% if real-time coaching is available, according to a Zoll survey.
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Ambulance Response Times Lag in Once-Redlined Neighborhoods
An estimated 2.2 million people living in once-redlined neighborhoods cannot count on an ambulance arriving within five minutes.
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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Antidote in Development
A new engineered protein-based therapy called RcoM-HBD-CCC acts like a sponge to soak up carbon monoxide from the blood.
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Using Ai to Predict Emergency Department Admissions
Artificial intelligence could help predict emergency department admissions and help reduce overcrowding, shorten boarding times, improve patient flow, and allow hospitals to better allocate resources.
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Lidocaine Local Anesthetic Poisonings/Deaths Nearly Tripled
Poisonings and deaths linked to the use of the local anesthetic lidocaine have nearly tripled in the US over the past decade, despite drops for in poisonings and deaths related to other anesthetics.
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Sharp Increase in Nicotine Pouch Ingestions Among Young Children
New data found an alarming 763% increase in the rate of reported nicotine pouch ingestions among children younger than 6 years old from 2020 to 2023.
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The Most Common School Medical Emergencies
Two-thirds of school-based EMS calls led to hospital transport, highlighting the urgent need for school staff training and access to emergency medications like epinephrine, albuterol, and benzodiazepines.
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Zoll Recalls AutoPulse Nxt Resuscitation System
The FDA is reporting that Zoll has recalled its AutoPulse Nxt Resuscitation System due to a failure code that may cause the device to stop delivering chest compressions or fail to compress deeply enough, according to an FDA alert.
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Children Experiencing Anaphylaxis Spend Unnecessary Time in Hospitals
The vast majority of children seeking emergency care for anaphylaxis could be safely discharged within four hours of hospital admission, according to data published in Lancet: Child and Adolescent Health.
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Products 2025: Resuscitation
RT looks at the latest resuscitation devices on the market from manufacturers like Dynarex, Flexicare, and Mercury Medical.
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Bystander AED Knowledge Lacking
Results from a national survey reveal a concerning gap in awareness and understanding about the role AEDs play in a cardiac emergency.
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NFL’s Buffalo Bills Continue CPR Education Initiative with AHA
The American Heart Association and the Buffalo Bills started the HeartBeat initiative in 2023 to increase bystander CPR skills after Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest during a game.
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Prehospital CPR: Timeliness Over Experience
New data presented at ESC’s ACVC 2025 reveals that time to CPR initiation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is more critical to successful outcomes than who performs the CPR.
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