Emergency Aeromedical Service Emergency Aeromedical Service The Emergency Aeromedical Service (EAS) is a helicopter medical evacuation and air ambulance service based in Athlone, Ireland. Operated since 2012 by the Air Corps and National Ambulance Service under the call sign MEDEVAC 112, the service was redesignated AIR CORPS 112 in 2016. It is a joint project of the Irish government Departments of Defence and Health, and provides an advanced-paramedic response to patients whose location or clinical condition requires aeromedical support. The service was launched on an initial 12-month trial basis on 4 June 2012, operating initially on a Eurocopter EC135 aircraft and later on
Shingles The family name of all the herpesviridae derives from the Greek word "herpein" ("to creep"), referring to the latent, recurring infections typical of this group of viruses. "Zoster" comes from Greek "zōstēr", meaning "belt" or "girdle", after the characteristic belt-like dermatomal rash. The common name for the disease, "shingles", derives from the Latin "cingulus", a variant of Latin "cingulum" meaning "girdle". In Arabic its name means "belt of fire", while in Spanish it means "small snake"; in Hindi it means "big rash" and in Norwegian its name is "helvetesild", literally "hell's fire". Until the mid 1990s, infectious complications of the