Georgette Eaton

South Central Ambulance Service

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Discussing Values in Paramedic Practice

This case considers a 90-year-old woman presenting with new lethargy and left-sided chest/flank pain. The patient described a multi-week history of left-sided axial rib and flank pain, a 48-hour...

Paramedic practice in low light conditions: a scoping review

Suggestions from the professional panel to improve driving were limited. The use of a dark mode to reduce the glare from the mobile data terminal was suggested as was using the low-power mode for blue...

What's that rash? Key dermatological presentations for the paramedic

After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to:.

Looking back to 2008—Looking forward to 2028

‘In the first edition of the Journal of Paramedic Practice, Roland Furber promised that the journal would hold relevance to the paramedic profession as a whole, and asked for paramedics to come...

The Four Pillars: outlining and aligning our future

The JPP will continue to encourage submissions that have a strong clinical practice focus—as for many practitioners, this will be the area that they will continue to develop. Professional judgment,...

Taking healthcare to the community: the evolving role of paramedics

‘Successful community paramedic programmes feature three common elements.’ .

Concentrate: Medical Law

Within our ever-developing profession, it stands to reason that ‘medical law and ethics’ is now found within many undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Book Review

Within our ever-developing profession, it stands to reason that ‘medical law and ethics’ is now found within many undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Although this book is mostly aimed at law...

Oxford Brookes faculty take on Turkish Paramedic Rally and International Congress 2015

The rally competition was held one day prior to the conference; it involved four clinical scenarios, during which international and Turkish teams’ practice was assessed during a competition to...

Documentation: are we writing it right?

‘The quality of your record-keeping is also a reflection of the standard of your professional practice. Good record-keeping is a mark of a skilled and safe practitioner, while careless or...

A pressing issue: Finding a voice for the paramedic profession

‘…for our right for a meal break to be reported as an excuse for bad practice is completely unreasonable in its portrayal of the service.‘.

Critique of the pre-hospital obstetric emergency training course: ALSG

The advanced life support group (ALSG) became a registered educational charity in 1992 and runs a variety of educational courses throughout the year (Box 1). The ethos of the organisation is to...

Management of an isolated neck-of-femur fracture in an elderly patient

The femoral head and neck lie within the joint capsule of the hip joint, and the head of the femur moves within the acetabulum. The most common site of fracture is within the intracapsular region,...