Journal Paramedic Practice (JPP)

Secondary traumatic stress and resilience among EMS

The Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) assesses the ability to recover from stressful situations. The BRS is a validated self-report 6-item scale rating one of the highest levels of quality for measuring...

Hand hygiene compliance in the pre-hospital setting

Health professionals' compliance with hand hygiene remains a universal problem in health care (Gould et al, 2017; Sunley et al, 2018). While poor hand hygiene is prevalent in the inpatient and...

Care pathways for low-risk transient ischaemic attack

‘a transient episode of neurologic dysfunction caused by focal brain, spinal cord or retinal ischemia without acute infarction’ (Easton et al, 2009) .

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...

Traumatic cardiac arrest: what's HOT and what's not

Treatment and management is increasingly being directed at the rapid identification and reversal of potential causes. Reversing hypovolaemia, oxygenation and tension pneumothorax (HOT) as a priority...

Cooling of thermal burn injuries: a literature review

The use of the PICO technique (O'Connor et al, 2008) determined initial keywords around the topic and further synonyms were then generated. The chosen search strategy was ‘burns AND cool* AND outcome...

Why do paramedics have a high rate of self-referral?

The research as a whole aimed to explore the reasons behind the disproportionate number of referrals relating to paramedics relative to other health and care professions regulated by HCPC. The current...

Paramedic views on clinical research in cardiac arrest

Of the paramedics who were eligible, 60% responded to the exit survey (n=101)..

Intraosseous access: a safe alternative route

IO infusion is a method of administration of medications or fluids directly into the marrow of a bone (Figure 1)..

Continuing Professional Development: Pulmonary embolism in pre-hospital care

After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to: .

Building psychological resilience in the paramedic

Historically, the origins of ‘serious play’ as a concept can be found in the seminal work of Piaget (1951) on social constructivism, and the version later developed in Harel and Papert's (1991)...

Capnography: monitoring CO2

The content of the air we breathe is a mixture of gases, with each gas exerting a pressure dependent on its proportional size. This is called its partial pressure and is abbreviated as the letter ‘P’,...