Pharmacist Responds to Medical Emergency, Helps Save a Life
Medical professionals know they might be asked to respond to a medical emergency at any time or place. A CVS pharmacist learned this lesson this year when a 57-year-old man, Mark...
5 Cost-Saving Reasons to Automate Your Crash Cart
If not managed well, crash carts are an audit and patient safety risk to your medical facility. Expired emergency medications, recalled medications, out-of-compliance lots, and lack of documentation on the drug...
Three Factors to Assess Your Practice’s Medical Emergency Readiness
Medical emergencies aren’t frequent at a physician’s office. But they are always possible, and studies show they are not rare. Yet there is no national standard or requirement for primary care...
Imaging Centers Quick to Help Patients In Medical Emergency
Unexpected allergic reactions can happen at any time in a medical practice or facility – to patients, staff or even family members in the waiting room. Every week, HealthFirst representatives learn...
How a Physician Practice Can Be Ready for a Pediatric Medical Emergency
Do you see pediatric patients, or do children often accompany adults to visits at your practice or medical office? Then you very likely will encounter a serious pediatric illness or injury...
Dr. Pancioli’s Advice to Physicians: Be Ready for Medical Emergencies
Dr. Arthur Pancioli thinks often about that very ill patient in your waiting room who should instead be in an emergency room. As chairman of the Department of Medicine at the...
With Opioid Crisis Growing, Doctors Need to be Equipped with Naloxone
Naloxone quickly has become a key medication that all medical professionals should have on hand, and be ready to use in a medical emergency, says Dr. Arthur Pancioli, chair of the...
Medical Emergency Preparation Guide For Physicians [INFOGRAPHIC]
Be Ready To Respond to a Medical Emergency
Most medical practices inevitably need to provide medical help to someone experiencing one of the five most common medical emergency conditions. You’ll want to...
Managing an Allergic Reaction To Contrast Dye
Every week, HealthFirst representatives learn from our customers how they have managed a medical emergency using their emergency medical kit or crash cart. The most recent example—an allergic reaction—comes from a...
HealthFirst Members Get 50% Life Support Training Discount
HealthFirst has partnered with the ACLS Certification Institute to offer a 50% discount to members on core medical emergency life support training. Founded in 2010, the institute is the largest online...
