The Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee (JRCALC) guidelines are often referred to as the prehospital ‘Bible’. They have been the ‘go to’ guidelines for all UK NHS Ambulance services since...
This research was conducted as part of an MSc in advanced practice (prehospital care) at the University of Greenwich. It was a quantitative survey that used a convenience sample by approaching every...
The fair distribution of finite resources or ‘goods’ is distributive justice in its simplest form (Campbell, 2017). Rawls is perhaps the most influential contemporary figure who presented a...
Many paramedics will have raised their eyebrows upon entering the scene of a cardiac arrest to find bystanders performing chest compressions while the patient is lying supine on a springy mattress....
When paramedics are uncertain about exactly what is going on with a patient, they should start with what they do know. Even when managing a very uncertain situation, practitioners often know more than...
The heart rate is approximately 50 beats per minute and in sinus rhythm. There is left axis deviation..
This article aims to demonstrate how practice supervisor training was incorporated into the final year of a paramedic academic programme..
Using the EBSCOhost service, a search was conducted using the MEDLINE, CINAHL, the Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection and the APA PsycInfo databases. A further search was conducted on...
Scoping reviews offer flexibility when reviewing literature that spans multiple, diverse methodologies and allow a broad overview of a topic to be created. As such, they have been described as an...
This case considers a 90-year-old woman presenting with new lethargy and left-sided chest/flank pain. The patient described a multi-week history of left-sided axial rib and flank pain, a 48-hour...
