Journal Paramedic Practice (JPP)

Development of clinical and inter-personal skills to support people living with dementia

Three themes emerged from the thematic analysis: challenges of communication students' negative emotional response, and lack of social care and pathways. Themes and subthemes emerged from both first...

Stroke assessment and management in pre-hospital settings

The World Health Organization (WHO) defined a stroke as a ‘a clinical syndrome consisting of rapidly developing clinical signs of focal (or global in case of coma) disturbance of cerebral function...

Live tweeting by ambulance services: a growing concern

A brief analysis of a convenience sample of existing tweets found numerous breaches of professionalism and potential risks to public confidence using the legal and ethical measures identified above....

Emotional labour in paramedic practice: student awareness of professional demands

Hochschild defines the term ‘emotional labour’ as ‘the management of feeling to create a publicly observable facial and bodily display’ (Hochschild, 2012). Where this exists as an integral part of...

Exploratory study into the views of paramedics on paramedic prescribing.

In 1999, a Department of Health medicines review chaired by Dr June Crown identified that there was overwhelming support for the extension of prescribing rights for a range of health professionals,...

Which resuscitated patients benefit from PPCI after out of hospital cardiac arrest?

“Which resuscitated patients benefit from PPCI after an out of hospital cardiac arrest?” .

Pre-hospital management of pain associated with an acute sickle cell crisis

In 2004, the London Ambulance Service conducted a clinical audit of SCD patients. The review showed that subjective pain scoring was recorded poorly by crews and that eligible patients did not receive...

Anticipated NHS demand in 2017/18

On this occasion, deaths (all-cause mortality) are used as an indicator of end-of-life related demand. Each additional death seems to be associated with around 10 additional medical admissions...

A student perspective: newly qualified paramedic programme

Without doubt, NQPs lack experience. However, this does not preclude the fact that an NQP is still a registered paramedic, and must act in accordance with the paramedic standards of proficiency...

Future of digital technology in paramedic practice: blue light of discernment in responsive care for patients?

In an ever-increasingly digital society, the profile of IT literacy of patients seen in everyday paramedic practice is a significant factor in how they approach understanding their medical conditions...