Failure to identify pneumothoraces in prehospital care carries the potential for significant consequences due to the potential for worsening of the pneumothorax during transfer. Clinical assessment...
Survival from cardiac arrest is known to improve if patients receive good quality chest compressions as soon as possible. During cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training, subjective assessment of...
This review is restricted in terms of being able to draw firm conclusions because of the limitations of the studies included (Table 4). The papers were limited to research based in Westernised...
This Australian study used a narrative inquiry methodology to explore experiences of women who give birth while in the care of paramedics. Themes from this study surrounded communication, consent,...
In cases in which extrication is not possible within a reasonable time frame to prevent the death of the patient, or because of clinical deterioration or a scene safety emergency, limb or extremity...
With the aim of identifying literature and evidence relevant to OHCA and post-resuscitation care, online searches of PubMed, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) using NHS...
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) recently produced the fourth edition of its Facing the Future publication, which sets standards for the provision of emergency care to...
The research question was developed using PICO (Table 1). As many reviews have already found them to be equally effective, DCC and UCM were used together to consider both strategies for placental...
A literature search was conducted on several occasions between October 2017 and May 2018, using the Medline, CINAHL, Sciencedirect, Scopus and Academic Search Premier databases, which were accessed...
A total record of 89 papers were screened, but only 11 met the inclusion criteria after quality assessment as per the PRISMA statement (Moher et al, 2009) (Figure 1). The papers included studies...
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..
The following medical literature databases were searched: Allied and Complementary Medicine Database (AMED); British Nursing Index (BNI); CINAHL Plus; Cochrane Library; Medline; and PubMed. A range of...