Delivery of DNs poses difficulties for a number of reasons. Firstly, clinicians only receive one chance to deliver a DN to family members, which is a cognitive challenge and gives no margin for error...
The use of the PICO technique (O'Connor et al, 2008) determined initial keywords around the topic and further synonyms were then generated. The chosen search strategy was ‘burns AND cool* AND outcome...
As the most serious cardiac rhythm disturbance, VF causes disordered cardiac electrical activity resulting in rapid, unsynchronised ventricular contractions, reduced pumping-action, collapse and...
Major trauma is a minor element of the total workload in emergency care, with estimations of less than 0.2% of the total workload (National Audit Office (NAO), 2010). Trauma such as dislocation,...
A small ambulance station within South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWAST) was purposively selected to participate in the study based on its size, location, usual patient numbers...
The Royal College of Psychiatrists Working Group, which comprises a multidisciplinary team collectively define gender dysphoria as ‘the distress associated with the experience of one's personal gender...
It is important to understand how the body is affected at the time of cardiac arrest and during the reperfusion that occurs following successful resuscitation. While achieving a ROSC in OHCA is not a...
The aim of the evaluation was to assess whether the new Red 1 definition had an impact on the patients that receive a Red 1 response..
An anonymous electronic survey was distributed by Survey Monkey® offering a pragmatic approach as the participants were based across a large geographical area. This also provided a degree of...
The focus of this review is to compare benefits of diazepam and lorazepam in the pre-hospital care setting. As there is limited evidence, the search criteria were widened to allow data from other...
Systematic searches identified 1 461 study abstracts which were evaluated against the inclusion/exclusion criteria for relevance. A total of 65 studies were potentially relevant and full texts were...