Rory McKelvin

Lecturer, Paramedic Practice & Pre-Hospital Care, Edge Hill University

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Splinting of injuries: best practice guidance

A splint is a device that is used to support an injury that has caused a body part (normally an extremity) and the associated joints not to function in a normal manner; it achieves this by...

Using haemostats effectively in pre-hospital care

The purpose of this month's Clinical Skills column is to provide safe and effective best practice guidance for the use of haemostatic agents, or haemostats, in the pre-hospital environment. The topic...

Combat Application Tourniquet: best practice use

A ‘tourniquet’ or CAT is a device designed to specifically occlude arterial and venous blood flow in an extremity. To do this, it uses a mechanical advantage device, differing from ligature type...