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How To Become a Paramedic in Massachusetts

Paramedic Training Spot

The course of instruction covers preparatory topics including medical ethics, legal consideration, and communications systems in public safety as well as clinical topics including basic anatomy and a wide variety of medical and traumatic emergencies and the non-invasive therapies EMTs may use to treat those ailments. per hour in 2020.

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Platelet-Lymphocyte Ratio and Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio: Updates in Prognosticating Fournier Gangrene in the Emergency Department

AAEM RSA

Introduction: While cases of genital gangrene were documented as early as 980 CE, the condition we know today as FG was coined in the 1880’s by French venerologist, Jean Alfred Fournier. A thorough physical exam, imaging, and laboratory studies can assist, but definitive diagnosis can only be made in the operating room.