ambulance services

Infections of the heart and how they relate to the ambulance service

Pericarditis is the inflammation of the pericardium around the heart. Pericarditis can be broken down into two major groups that cause this disease: infectious (accounting for two thirds of the...

Pre-hospital technology research: reflecting on a collaborative project between ambulance service and academia

The MIME technology consisted of two key components: i) lightweight medical sensors that were simple to apply and operate (see Figure 1), and ii) novel software that presented these data very simply,...

A review of a self-diagnosed diabetic case study

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines diabetes as a:.

Clinical intuition: how paramedics make decisions, is experience always best? A case presentation

Firstly, it is important to consider why particular decisions are made, whether diagnoses are correct and what assumptions are made about the patient. It is pertinent to reflect on whether there were...

Ambulance CPAP Saves Lives: why don't we use it?

Current UK ambulance guidelines (Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee (JRCALC), 2013) advocate the use of nitrates (in particular, glyceryl trinitrate) as the first-line treatment of ACPE....

Future electric vehicles for ambulances (FEVA)

The data from the word map (Figure 3) were grouped to develop the interview proforma (Table 1) for the second stage of data collection. The interview data were analysed to identify common themes for...