Emergency Medical Retrieval Service Emergency Medical Retrieval Service The Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS) provides aeromedical critical care to people in Scotland. It provides patients in remote and rural areas with rapid access to the skills of a consultant in emergency or intensive care medicine as well as facilitating transfers to larger, better equipped city hospitals. The team is available 24 hours a day with services` provided in partnership with the Scottish Ambulance Service utilising both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. The service began operating in the West of Scotland in 2004 and has provided a national service since 2010. The EMRS now operate as
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