Accident and Emergency
You're much more likely to die from illness or old age (at the moment!) but it's still worth minimising your chances of dying from the unexpected.
About 50 people die every day in the UK of "external causes" - accidents, falls and assaults - which gives you a one in a million chance of not making it to tomorrow. Coincidentally (or maybe because of it's applicable size) this is also the definition of a micromort.
Draft page - more coming soon.
Read more about: Medical Alert IDs.
Resources
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Charity that offers free app, education material and help in learning how to deal with multiple casualties, particularly from deliberate attacks
Accident and Emergency Blog Posts
Living forever one step at a time - preferably in safety shoes
15-Mar-2015
Recent News
Synthetic red blood cells function similarly to natural ones
ACS Publications - 03-Jun-2020
Did not seem to cause any toxicity in mouse model
Read more...Drones to deliver defibrillators for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Sweden
MobiHealthNews - 19-May-2020
Immediate defibrillation is the key to surviving a sudden cardiac arrest
Read more...Widely available drug with great outcomes
BBC - 15-Oct-2019
According to an international study Tranexamic acid improves patient survival rates if given early
Read more...Japanese researchers developed artificial blood
Asahi - 29-Sep-2019
Artificial blood has been effective in experiments on rabbits
Read more...Hospital sepsis deaths 'jump by a third'
BBC - 03-Aug-2018
The causes of this sudden increase remain unclear and hospital records are not helping
Read more...
