Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Dehydration
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Dehydration It is common knowledge now that our bodies are made up of mainly water, some 55% to 60%. This means that for our bodies to continue functioning optimally and for normal functions to be carried out, you need to drink enough water. Dehydration is therefore what occurs when you […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Concussions
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Concussions A concussion is the mild traumatic brain injury that occurs after trauma to your head or after an injury causing whiplash which causes your head and brain to shake violently back and forth. Even though the brain is soft and delicate, not to mention important and one of the […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Chest Pain
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Chest Pain Chest pain is one of those symptoms that can be quite scary to experience and that is probably why it is one of the most common symptoms that bring people to the emergency room. Chest pain may be due to varying causes, some of them very serious and […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Burns
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Burns Whether we are at home, at work or even in transit in a car, we are always at a risk of suffering from burns. A burn injury, just as a refresher, is an injury that causes tissue damage due to scalding, contact with flames, electricity, smoke inhalation, chemicals or […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Bronchitis
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Bronchitis One of the major components of the respiratory system in the body are the bronchial tubes which play an important role as far as breathing is concerned. This is because they are the ones that deliver air to the lungs with each lung serviced by one of the two […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Broken Bones
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Broken Bones Our bones are strong and sturdy and bear the weight and stress we put on them quite well; and they are made strong for just this, if you have healthy bones that is. They play a major role in the body by helping with support, movement and so […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Blood Clots
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Blood Clots Blood clotting is not necessarily a bad thing; in fact it is one of the body’s vital processes as it is one that helps prevent one from losing excess blood due to injury to a blood vessel. This is why when you injure yourself and suffer a cut […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Asthma
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Asthma Asthma is a medical condition that causes one’s airways to become inflamed, swell and then narrow as well as producing extra mucus making it difficult to breathe. It is a chronic medical condition, and actually is one of the most common chronic conditions in the US with close to […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Animal Bites
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Animal Bites While accidents, diseases, illnesses and other medical conditions are usually seen as the main risk to our health, there are other threats that lurk and may be closer than you think. We are talking about animals and animal bites in particular. It may be a bite or scratch […]
Emergency care for Urgent Situations: Allergic Reactions
Emergency care for Urgent Situations: Allergic Reactions We all know how the immune system works; it produces antibodies which fight off foreign substances in the body to prevent us from getting sick or infected. However, when your body identifies a substance that is normally not harmful as being harmful, then an allergic reaction ensues. These […]