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...
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...
6 Tips To Choose the Best Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
As a medical doctor or staff member, your patients trust you with their lives. In the event of a cardiac arrest, CPR can only take you so far. The chance of...
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...
Required by FAA Since 1986, Airline Emergency Medical Kits Have Expanded Over the Years
Since 1986 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations have mandated that all domestic passenger airplanes with a flight attendant have an emergency medical kit containing medications and devices onboard1. The FAA also...
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...
Minimum Contents For FAA-Approved Emergency Medical Kits
Sphygmomanometer
Stethoscope
Airways, oropharyngeal: 1 pediatric, 1 small adult, and 1 large adult or equivalent
Self-inflating manual resuscitation device with 1 pediatric mask, 1 small adult mask, and 1 large...
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...
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...
