Malcolm Boyle

Department of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice, Monash University, Australia

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Which paediatric weight formula is best suited for the out-of-hospital field?

‘The APLS weight estimation formula is providing increasingly inaccurate weight estimations…’.

CPR compression depth and rate in relation to physical exertion in paramedic students

All participants completed a purposefully designed questionnaire which included their age and gender, the amount of hours of exercise per week as well as prior CPR experience. All participants were...

Australian first responder programmes: a review of the literature

‘A person competent in advanced first aid (including oxygen administration and the use of an automated external defibrillator). A first responder may be a salaried/non-salaried member of a...

Trauma patients who suddenly deteriorate in the care of paramedics: an Australian case

The sudden deterioration dataset had been created previously by linking twelve months of ambulance trauma data (2002) with the Victorian State Trauma Registry (VSTR) (Boyle, 2008). The VSTR contains...

Listening and communication styles of undergraduate paramedic students

The listening styles profile (LSP) has been used widely as a standardized measure (Watson et al, 1995). The LSP was originally administered to young adults in the US (Watson et al, 1995). The LSP...

Falls in the prehospital environment

There were 405 articles located in the search with 21 meeting the inclusion criteria. There were five studies excluded leaving 16 studies available for review There was one pragmatic cluster...