For trauma patients who require emergent chest decompression, prehospital needle decompression (PHND) was associated with a lower risk of mortality compared with tube thoracostomy, a cohort study ...

January 25, 2011 (Roseville, Minnesota) — A pair of devices for assisting paramedics performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest can raise the patient's chances ...

The Dart gives providers at any skill level the confidence and capability to perform reliable chest decompression and improve outcomes for casualties with a tension pneumothorax, the third leading ...

BAGHDAD — A 14-gauge needle is a big needle. Really big, like a soda straw. And really long, like 6 inches. In fact, if the business end of this needle weren’t so sharp, it might even seem like a joke ...

SILVER SPRING, MD — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket approval to the ResQCPR system (Zoll Medical, Chelmsford, MA), a new compression-decompression device designed to ...

This project was approved by the Committee on Animal Experimentation at the University of Minnesota, and the animals were managed in accordance with the American Physiological Society, institutional ...

Decompression therapy stretches the affected area to reduce pressure on compressed nerves, often using mechanical traction or computerized devices. It may help relieve pain from conditions such as ...