Any change to TTM policy or procedures has to follow a strict process; this involves the convening of the course clinical governance body, the Tactical Medical Advisory Group (TMAG). This faculty...
This literature review was divided into two parts, in response to the advice of specialist librarians, and it used search concept tools. The first part considered handover communication in...
A. As the Honorary Colonel of 335 Medical Evacuation Regiment and a Principal Lecturer in Nursing Health and Professional Practice at the University of Cumbria, I was able to gain Paramedic Lecturer...
After completing this module the paramedic will be able to: .
Much of the evidence surrounding human factors and cognitive bias comes from the hospital or primary care environment. There appears to be little evidence looking specifically at human factors in the...
An experienced band 6 paramedic and a final year student paramedic were called to a 64–year-old man with chest pain. On arrival, the patient said he had been trying to contact his doctor's surgery to...
The aim of the search was to identify appropriate literature and evidence which could be deemed to be useful to the prehospital management of NOF fracture..
After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to:.
The prehospital clinician is often the first to manage a patient with a reduced temperature as a result of loss in circulatory volume caused by trauma so has an important early role in the management...
Cerebral oximetry uses near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to measure transcutaneous cerebral tissue oxygen saturation. This reflects perfusion in the cerebral microcirculation (Genbrugge et al, 2016)....
Professional paramedic engagement encompasses the consultation of practitioners within their area of expertise, who provide early and essential critical value and propose changes in study projects to...
A splint is a device that is used to support an injury that has caused a body part (normally an extremity) and the associated joints not to function in a normal manner; it achieves this by...