Samantha Murdoch

Second Year Student Paramedic, North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, (qualification being provided by University of Sunderland), South Tyneside

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Clinical decision making in paramedic practice

Decision making is a complex process (Standing, 2010) and decisions made by paramedics are based on a variety of information sources such as experience, knowledge, experience of others, research and...

Clinical decision-making and its place in paramedic practice

After completing this module the paramedic will be able to:.

A prehospital focus on rhabdomyolysis in elderly falls

More than a quarter of ambulance call-outs relate to elderly falls. Immobility following a fall can cause muscle to break down which can lead to rhabdomyolysis—a life-threatening condition that can be...

A pre-hospital focus on rhabdomyolysis in elderly falls

To confidently recognise the clinical presentation of rhabdomyolysis, clinicians need to understand the pathophysiological changes that occur, and the symptoms such changes create. Rhabdomyolysis, by...