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Needle decompression in tension pneumothorax: anterior or lateral approach?

This literature review was conducted following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidance on identifying and including reviews of research and evaluation...

Point-of-care ultrasound use in the pre-hospital setting

Since its introduction, POCUS has been used to enhance the assessment of a wide range of clinical conditions across medical and traumatic pathologies. For example, the ‘focused assessment with...

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...

Pulse oximetry: SpO2 and SaO2

Arterial oxygen saturation or the discovered oxygen level in arterial blood (SaO2) is invasive, and it is difficult to monitor trends in a practice setting. In 1972, the idea of a non-invasive pulse...