According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), cardiac arrest or heart attack causes 15% of workplace fatalities in the US, and 40% of these cases could have been saved with immediate defibrillation. Of the 220,000 victims of cardiac arrest per year, 10,000 occurred at work. Moreover, waiting for the ambulance and emergency response […]
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Acetaminophen (paracetamol) is a well-known and widely used over the counter medicine with weaker anti-inflammatory effects and mild to moderate analgesic effect. It’s commonly used in treatment of fever and for the first line treatment of mild to moderate pains such as headache, toothache, menstrual pains, joint pain, post-operative pain and in general body aches.
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Abdominal pain is a collective term to describe pain or discomfort occurring in abdominal region, from lower margin of chest bone (sternum) to upper margin of pubic bone. The character of abdominal pain can be of varying sensation ranging from burning, cramping, throbbing and spasmodic. Abdominal pain usually describes the pain arising from internal abdominal
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Anaphylaxis is an excessive, widespread, severe and sometimes fatal form of allergic reaction occurs in response of exposure to a specific allergen (allergy causing substance) in immunologically susceptible individuals. Anaphylaxis usually occurs within seconds to minutes of exposure to allergen but it can be delayed or may occur without apparent trigger in some instances. Risk
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Carbon monoxide (CO) is a non-irritant, colorless, odorless gas that has a potential of causing fatal poisoning. It is among the most common causes of accidental poisoning in North America. In Canada, approximately 1,000 cases of carbon monoxide poisoning and 250 deaths are reported each year. These figures do not reflect the actual numbers. There
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