When I was a toddler, I choked on a boiled sweet. I became silent and turned purple. My quick-thinking mother (a carer for children with learning disabilities) picked me up by my feet, sharply slapped...
Time for Dementia (Banerjee et al, 2016) is an educational programme for undergraduate healthcare students including medical, adult and mental health nursing, and allied health professionals, as well...
Through the current study, the authors aim to illustrate the first-line response to patient falls that is operational in the independent care sector in a specific region of North East England. This...
Glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) is a nitric oxide (NO) donor, which can be used to provide immediate relief for cardiac chest pain, and lower blood pressure. Cardiac chest pain is usually as a result of...
EtCO2 is the concentration of CO2 in exhaled air, and approximates the partial pressure of CO2 in arterial blood (PaCO2). Values of PaCO2 usually range between 4.6-6 KPa (Valente, 2010; Pantazopoulos...
Massive acute pulmonary emboli (PE) is a reversible cause of cardiac arrest, with thrombolysis being the first line of treatment (British Thoracic Society, 2003). Occlusion of pulmonary blood flow is...
A systematic review of published literature was performed in November 2016, using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses convention (Moher et al, 2009). Similar...
The paramedic profession has formally existed in the UK for less than two decades (Newton 2011). Historically, the role of the paramedic has been two-fold (Paranjape 2017):.
The RCOG (2009) recognises that PPH is the leading cause of obstetric haemorrhage and suggested that the incidence of PPH is rising in the UK. Sentilhes et al. (2015a) outlines that PPH, of either...
A service evaluation was performed with analysis of patient outcome by the review of patient report forms (PRFs). Patients who received pre-hospital TXA were identified and further analysis of their...
