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...
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...
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...
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...
Pain Clinic Revives Patient Suffering Possible Opioid Overdose
Medical emergencies can happen at any time in a medical practice or facility. Every week, HealthFirst representatives learn from our customers how they have managed a medical emergency using their emergency...
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...
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 To Assess Your Practice’s Medical Emergency Response Needs
Since general practices see sick patients and those who accompany them every day, doctors can count on needing to respond to a medical emergency at some point in their careers. A...
Surgeon General Urges Equipping More Americans With Naloxone
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams recommended today that more Americans should be equipped with Narcan (naloxone) to save victims of opioid overdoses. “Research shows that when naloxone and overdose education...
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...
