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 ...

FALL RIVER — It's standard practice for EMT personnel and paramedics to practice on plastic mannequins to hone their lifesaving skills, but a group of first responders were given a hands-on ...

Dr. John Aho and Sasha Gentling's startup company, Pneumeric, based in Rochester, has a simple solution to improve how medical teams treat patients' emergency condition of pneumothorax brought on by a ...

Tension pneumothorax remains a critical, life-threatening complication in trauma care, arising when air accumulates under pressure in the pleural cavity. Effective management requires rapid diagnosis ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given a greenlight to the young Rochester startup, Pneumeric, to start selling its medical device typically for use in emergency medical situations. Sasha ...