Representing a significantly different vision for prehospital LVO stroke identification, two research articles were published in mid-2018 that present a paradigm shift in the assessment of these...
BBN is described in the clinical setting as the delivery of any news that drastically and negatively alters the patient's view of his or her life (Adebayo et al, 2013). In the event of an OHCA, the...
‘a transient episode of neurologic dysfunction caused by focal brain, spinal cord or retinal ischemia without acute infarction’ (Easton et al, 2009) .
The NHS accounts for 5% of all road traffic in England, with staff, patients and visitors travelling over 20 billion kilometres annually by car (GrEAN, 2011). The Climate Change Act [2008] has...
Survival from OHCA depends on a system of time-critical interventions known as the ‘chain of survival’ (Nolan et al, 2006). Improved outcomes from OHCA have been reported by centres that have...
Time for Dementia (Banerjee et al, 2016) is an educational programme for undergraduate healthcare students including medical, adult and mental health nursing, and allied health professionals, as well...
The paramedic profession has formally existed in the UK for less than two decades (Newton 2011). Historically, the role of the paramedic has been two-fold (Paranjape 2017):.
Three themes emerged from the thematic analysis: challenges of communication students' negative emotional response, and lack of social care and pathways. Themes and subthemes emerged from both first...
In 1999, a Department of Health medicines review chaired by Dr June Crown identified that there was overwhelming support for the extension of prescribing rights for a range of health professionals,...
In an ever-increasingly digital society, the profile of IT literacy of patients seen in everyday paramedic practice is a significant factor in how they approach understanding their medical conditions...
Action learning is attributed to the British researcher Reginald Revans, who during his time as a research student at Cambridge University in the 1940s (Revans, 1982), worked alongside a talented...
Weighted participant feedback is shown in figure 3. Two areas of consensus emerged in the focus group that indicated the value of the use of immersive media within simulations according to the...