Mark Bloch

Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

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RCSEd Consensus Documents: improving the evidence base for pre-hospital practice

In the pre-hospital context the response teams are doing all they can to save lives. A terrifying ordeal or horrific accident comes without warning at any time of the day or night. With lives at risk,...

Pre-hospital spinal immobilisation: an initial consensus statement

Prior to the Faculty meeting in March 2012, a review of the published literature was undertaken using PubMed to search the Medline database. Secondary searches were made using UK PubMed Central and...

The pre-hospital management of pelvic fractures: initial consensus statement

A review of the literature was undertaken prior to the consensus meeting. The Medline Database was searched using PubMed and Google Scholar was also used. The search terms were Pre-hospital management...

The myth and mending of ketamine

Ketamine, a chemical derivative of phencyclidine (PCP), was first synthesized by Calvin Lee Stevens, Professor of organic chemistry at Wayne State University. Initially evaluated under the clinical...

Prehospital capnography or capnometry: are we going in the right direction?

‘Tracheal intubation without the use of drugs has little value in prehospital practice’.