High quality peer review is essential to any reputable academic journal and the Journal of Paramedic Practice (JPP) is no exception. However, it's not only the journal that benefits from the process;...
‘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 World Health Organization (WHO) defined a stroke as a ‘a clinical syndrome consisting of rapidly developing clinical signs of focal (or global in case of coma) disturbance of cerebral function...
‘Your leadership in men's health and your prolific and effective writing are exemplary. The creation of the “Fundamentals of…” series is particularly commendable, especially because of its...
Before reviewing the available technology, it is worth briefly outlining the history of technology in medicine, referred to as ‘telemedicine’. Utilising technology for health care is actually an old...
While gout is becoming an increasingly prevalent condition, it has its background many thousands of years ago. The Egyptians first identified gout in 2 640 BC, and in the fifth century, Hippocrates...
Poor hospital care is not new. In 1863, Florence Nightingale declared that ‘…the first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm’ (Nightingale, 1863). Moving ahead 150 years, the...
