Emergency

A 13-year-old boy was admitted to hospital after four days of abdominal pain – when he then admitted to doctors that he'd swallowed 80-100 small high-powered magnets. It's the latest in a trend that's more serious that what it may first appear to be.

If a medical professional has ever had a hard time getting a needle into your veins, you'll welcome this new gizmo from Adison Technology. By effectively turning your skin transparent, it makes needle sticks more accurate and therefore less painful.

The warning signs of a deadly out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest differ significantly between the sexes, a study has found. Researchers hope their research will improve survival rates and educate people about when to call emergency services.

MIT scientists have developed a synthetic system that can stem internal bleeding, to help save lives after a traumatic injury. Two components come together at a wound to form a clot, without doing so elsewhere in the body where it might be dangerous.

During surgery or traumatic injury, quickly stopping bleeding saves lives. Now, scientists have recruited an unlikely ally to that cause – snake venom, which forms the basis of a new “super glue” that halts bleeding in seconds after light activation.

It may look like a discarded piece of plumbing or a message in a bottle bobbing about aimlessly in the river, but Queensland University of Technology's humble "Drifter" hides some serious kit with a lifesaving mission for flood-prone regions.

Sandia National Laboratories is working its Mobile Imager of Neutrons for Emergency Responders (MINER) – a nuclear device detector capable of narrowing a search to within a city block without door-to-door sweeps.

If heart attack victims are given cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the first 15 minutes, their chances of survival are greatly increased. The Cardio First Angel CPR coach is a simple mechanical device that guides even an untrained person in properly administering CPR.

The idea of getting caught in a building fire is terrifying. The 5aver won't help douse the flames, but the grab-and-go combination of lantern, alarm and mask is designed to help you find your way to safety in a hurry.

The Royal Academy of Engineering has released a multi-disciplinary report on space weather’s impact on Britain, as part of the UK National Risk Assessment.

Medical researchers at the US Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a simple blood test to determine the exposure of a patient to ionizing radiation, that can be carried out in the field with a hand-held analyzer.

The LifeBot 5 is a portable telemedicine unit for use by people such as EMTs and army medics.