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Podcasts

Click on any of the MP3 links below to play the audio files which have been prepared by Sussex Ambulance Service and comply with European Resuscitation Council Guidelines:

  • Burns - Explains the immediate treatment for burns and scalds.

  • Fits - How to deal with fits (convulsions/seizures) in adults and young children.

  • Wounds - Immediate actions for wounds, bleeding, and bleeding associated with fractures.

  • Unconscious patient who is breathing - How to deal with an unrousable patient who IS breathing (includes recovery position)

  • CPR for adults - Adults who have collapsed, unrousable and NOT breathing.

  • CPR for babies - Babies who are unrousable and NOT breathing.

  • Collapsed patient in detail - Explains the complete scenario including checks for breathing, circulation, etc.

 

NHS Health Encyclopedia
Click here to go to the NHS Health Encyclopedia which allows you to access information and advice on a range of conditions, surgical procedures, medications, and health issues.

Some of the most popular health encyclopaedia topics have been translated into other languages. You can access these topics by clicking on the image in the bottom left hand corner of every page on the website.

 

NHS Online Self Help Guide
Click here to access this online diagnostic tool.

 

Common Health Questions
Click here to get answers to commonly asked health and medical questions direct from the NHS.

 

Non-English Speakers
These fact sheets have been written to explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. It covers issues such as the role of GPs, their function as gatekeepers to the health services, how to register and how to access emergency services.

Special care has been taken to ensure that information is given in clear language, and the content and style has been tested with user groups.

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Live Health News

BBC News - Health
The latest stories from the Health section of the BBC News web site.

Diabetes 'ups birth defect risk'
The risk of birth defects increases four-fold if the pregnant mother has diabetes, a study of 400,000 pregnancies in England suggests.
Campaign to cut smoking in cars
A campaign to stop people smoking in cars when children are present, and which could pave the way for a ban, is launched by the Welsh government.
Malaria toll 'is twice as high'
The number of deaths worldwide from malaria has been underestimated, according to data published in the medical journal the Lancet.
Brains may be wired for addiction
Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts, according to scientists.
Weekend hospital admission fears
Research which suggests that patients are more likely to die in hospital if they are admitted at the weekend is backed up by a major study.
Legionella Britons die in Spain
Three British men die and three more people remain in hospital after contracting Legionnaires' disease while on holiday in Spain, a tour company says.
Record 'legal highs detected'
A record number of potentially dangerous new legal highs were found in Europe last year, say doctors.
Euro MPs reject new food labels
Euro MPs block changes to food labels that would have allowed claims such as "now contains 15% less sugar".
Sugar tax needed, say US experts
Sugar added to processed foods is as damaging as alcohol and should be regulated, claim US health experts.
Contraceptive pill recalled in US
Around one million packets of birth control tablets are being recalled in the US as they might not prevent pregnancy.
Measures 'reduced suicide rate'
Measures introduced to lower the suicide rate in England and Wales in the past decade appear to have been successful, according to an analysis.
Ulcer drugs 'link to fractures'
Women who take certain ulcer drugs have a small increased risk of hip fractures in later life, particularly if they smoke, US research suggests.
Testicular zap 'may stop sperm'
A dose of ultrasound can stop the production of sperm, according to researchers investigating a new form of contraception.
'Take both arms' blood pressure'
Measuring blood pressure in both arms should be routine, says a University of Exeter study, because it is the difference between the arms that counts.
Foetus parties: Womb with a view?
Prof Cathy Warwick, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, outlines her fears about the "commercialisation of childbirth"

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