Tim Nutbeam

Consultant in emergency medicine, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

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Maximising intraosseous flow rates: an in-vitro study

Three different methods of administration were examined: Fluid-giving set directly placed upon IO needle hub (direct-to-hub: DTH) (Figure 1)Fluid-giving set connected to the EZ-IO device extension...

Medical vs. true physical traffic collision entrapment

This article reports data collected during a prospective, observational study carried out in the West Midland Fire Service's metropolitan area from October 2010–March 2012. All cases were patients who...

Sepsis and pre-hospital care: where are we now?

In February 2016, the International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis Task Force published recommendations for Sepsis-3. Major changes from earlier definitions included dropping the Systemic...

Paramedics have a clear role to play in the management of patients with sepsis

‘Until now, efforts to initiate antimicrobial therapy in the pre-hospital setting have been thwarted by criticism of the lack of evidence supporting the applicability of the international...