innovation

Advanced prehospital stroke triage in the era of mechanical thrombectomy

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...

Breaking bad news and managing family during an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

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...

Care pathways for low-risk transient ischaemic attack

‘a transient episode of neurologic dysfunction caused by focal brain, spinal cord or retinal ischemia without acute infarction’ (Easton et al, 2009) .

Smaller, lighter, faster? Reducing the carbon footprint of ambulances

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...

Cardiac arrest resources that improve patient outcomes

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: an innovation in education

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...

A day in the life of a paramedic advanced clinical practitioner in primary care

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):.

Development of clinical and inter-personal skills to support people living with dementia

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...

Exploratory study into the views of paramedics on paramedic prescribing.

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,...

Future of digital technology in paramedic practice: blue light of discernment in responsive care for patients?

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...

Appropriateness of action learning in the physical and virtual spaces: a discussion

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...

Using consensus group methods to improve simulation using immersive media in paramedicine

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...