South Western Ambulance Service Foundation NHS Trust, and Programme Leader, Bournemouth University.
The control of compressible catastrophic haemorrhage prior to airway, breathing and circulation (CABCDE) is not a new approach, being advocated for civilian use by Hodgetts et al in 2006, and...
‘It seems a lifetime ago that we first met the LUCAS device.’ It was in 2002, David Halliwell (DH) was in Florence, Italy, at the European Resuscitation Council conference when he first noticed the...
In 1966, the Millar Report (Ministry of Health) recommended intensive training for ambulance personnel that included frst aid, care of the seriously ill and the required skills following accidents and...
‘Blended learning is realized in teaching and learning environments where there is an effective integration of different modes of delivery, models of teaching and styles of learning as a result of...
‘It is the duty of the attendant to carefully watch the patient, and to note any change in his condition. Complaints of pain, changes to breathing or pulses, change in posture, or any particular...