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Common Causes of Hairline Fractures and How to Prevent Them

Ziqitza HealthCare Ltd

What is a Hairline Fracture? A common cause of sports injuries, hairline fracture is a type of fracture that begins as a minor inflammation on the surface of a bone and manifests as a tiny thin hair-like crack on the bone. It is also known as a stress fracture or a fissure fracture.

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Breaking Down Osteoporosis: Insights into Prevention and Therapy

Ziqitza HealthCare Ltd

Popularly known as the ‘silent disease,’’ osteoporosis is a condition that causes weak bones, leaving them vulnerable to fractures. Bone Fractures: The weakening of bones makes them more susceptible to fractures. Fractures can occur in the hips, lower back (pain in the lumbar spine), wrist.

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Elective Placement With The Air Ambulance: Reflective Account and Top Tips

Mind The Bleep

Through this role, as an observer, I was able to experience various pre-hospital emergencies; the most common scenarios I attended were cardiac arrests, but I also attended trauma patients at the scene of road traffic accidents, fractures in a wilderness medicine setting, anaphylaxis, and many others.

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ZIQITZA HEALTHCARE LTD – NAVIGATING MENOPAUSE: TIPS FOR MANAGING SYMPTOMS AND PROMOTING OVERALL HEALTH

Ziqitza HealthCare Ltd

Bone Health and Preventing Osteoporosis during Menopause During menopause, women lose bone density and become more susceptible to osteoporosis, a condition that weakens bones and makes them more prone to fractures. It is crucial to take measures to maintain bone health during this time.

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An Insight into Mountain Rescue Teams (MRTs)

Mind The Bleep

You may work with the police, fire service, helicopters, coastguard, and ambulance services, so interagency relationships are important. This is slightly different in England and Wales where the Mountain Rescue England and Wales (MREW) organisation has more input over team processes – hence the variability between teams.

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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

In fact, one of my surgeon grandfather's ortho buddies (perhaps with the help of some lunchtime martinis) took a look at the x-rays of my Boxer's Fracture and snapped it back into place without any analgesia or procedural sedation, casted me, and sent me home. Still no pain medicine.

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CASE #6 UPDATE – FIND THE BLEEDING, STOP THE BLEEDING

Rural Doctors Net

Importantly the ambulance service in many rural areas will be staffed by volunteers – trained to Cert IV level but unable to cannulate, give drugs (other than penthrox/GTN) or intubate. Pull straight any fractures & splint them. Let’s break the case down into little chunks. Remember to apply splints to skin!

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