Nigel Rees

Welsh Ambulance Services NHS trust.

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Virtual reality training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation in schools

Teaching CPR to children in school in various ways can be effective (Plant and Taylor, 2015), and mandatory CPR training for schoolchildren may provide an opportunity to improve the bystander CPR...

Mental health assessment and triage in an ambulance clinical contact centre

This service evaluation sought to uncover paramedic and nurse perceptions of mental health 999 calls, and to understand how they are triaged by the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust's (WAST) clinical...

ParaVR: a virtual reality training simulator for paramedic skills maintenance

Skills development and maintenance for many paramedic emergency procedures are challenging because opportunities to learn and practise are limited. Such procedures may be required in rare and...

Decision making for patients categorised as ‘amber’ in a rural setting

The study explored the experiences of paramedics working in rural areas. A qualitative design was used to provide depth and richness. Data were analysed through inductive thematic analysis (Braun and...

Care pathways for low-risk transient ischaemic attack

‘a transient episode of neurologic dysfunction caused by focal brain, spinal cord or retinal ischemia without acute infarction’ (Easton et al, 2009) .

‘A pain in the back’: Psoas abscess and the importance of red and yellow flags

A 19 year old man attended an ED in Wales (UK) with an eleven day history of low back pain. Following a five mile walk he developed bilateral heaviness in his legs, one day later he experienced...

Prehospital continuous positive airway pressure ventilation in ACPO: part 2

A comprehensive English language literature search of MEDLINE and CINAHL from 2000 to November 2010 was conducted using a broad search strategy. The subject heading ‘CPAP’ was used including the...

Prehospital continuous positive airway pressure ventilation in ACPO: Part 1

‘A complex syndrome that can result from any structural or functional cardiac disorder that impairs the ability of the heart to function as a pump to support a physiological circulation. The syndrome...