Pete Best

Paramedic, North West Ambulance Service, Manchester, UK

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Paramedic prescribing: implementation in practice

Expectations were identified in policy papers, published guidance and reports from various organisations with an interest in paramedic prescribing (Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), 1999;...

Can paramedics avoid A&E departments with patients complaining of non-traumatic chest pain?

It is assumed paramedics can safely identify those chest pain patients who are critically ill: those that are hemodynamically unstable for example, as well as most of the life-threatening aetiologies...