Location information is of vital interest for emergency services throughout Europe. Among the recent priorities of the European Union is to promote appropriate electronic communication technologies (like mobile cellular networks and satellite location systems), in order to improve road safety, to speed up rescue times and to provide an efficient ‘harmonised’ European emergency call (eCall) serv...

Warning signals generated by sirens of authorized emergency vehicles should be audible and recognizable to all road users. Currently, there is no legislation in Poland defining sound pressure levels (SPLs) of audible warning signals generated by sirens of authorized emergency vehicles. Measured A-weighted SPLs of those signals range between 104 and 108 dB. While for road users, an audible warni...

Introduction. Renal trauma patients are largely managed conservatively but on occasion have to be embolised or taken to theatre for definitive surgical management, usually in the form of emergency nephrectomy. Review. We present an overview of renal trauma as illustrated by three interesting cases of blunt renal trauma who presented in quick succession of each other to the Emergency Department....

Received: April 3, 2013 Accepted for publication: December 25, 2013 From the Emergency Department, Hsinchu Cathay General Hospital Address reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Cho-Chao Feng Emergency Department, Hsinchu Cathay General Hospital 678 Section 2, Zhonghua Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel: (03)5278999 ext 1191 Fax: (03)5261499 E-mail: [email protected] Vertebral Osteomyeli...

Received: September 9, 2008 Accepted for publication: July 4, 2009 From the Department of Emergency Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Address reprint requests and correspondence: Dr Min-Po Ho Department of Emergency Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital 21 Section 2, Nanya South Road, Panchiao 220, Taipei County, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel: (02)89667000 ext 1122 Fax: (02)896604...

International environmental agreements address global problems such as the decline in biodiversity. The Convention on Trade Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) regulates international trade wildlife to prevent its decline. Discussions about CITES’ effectiveness abound, but evidence is lacking. We combine largest available panel database populations with history countries’ members...

Author details Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung 123, Ta Pei Road, Niao Sung Hsiang, Kaohsiung, Hsien 83301, Taiwan. Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung 123, Ta Pei Road, Niao Sung Hsiang, Kaohsiung, Hsien 83301, Taiwan. Department of Plastic Surgery, University Hospital of South Manc...

India is one of the few countries to have made extensive use Appendix III Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), compared other Parties Convention. Here we examine India’s illustrate its benefits limitations, using examples species listed by III. Since ratification CITES 1976, has 39 taxa III, 27 six subspecies listings which are still current. Thr...