The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine says records at some New South Wales public hospitals are being changed to make emergency patient treatment times look faster.

“Anyone can save a life.” That’s the message from physicians at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that a user-friendly, 30-minute, video-based cardiopulmonary resuscitation training session is just as effective as the traditional three- to four-hour course in teaching basic life-saving techniques to laypersons.

Defining what constitutes quality care—especially in a large, urban hospital—isn’t easy.
University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers, however, are addressing the nationwide problem with a unique system to reduce medical errors and improve patient care in local hospital emergency departments.

When disaster strikes, getting care to the victims is at the top of everyone's attention. But who will provide that care" In two studies to be presented at the 2007 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting, researchers examined the factors that might affect whether healthcare workers and support staff would report to work during a disaster.