In this month's Clinical Skills article, best practice for the administration of intramuscular (IM) injections will be discussed. It is important to re-visit clinical skills as many are taught during...
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...
IO infusion is a method of administration of medications or fluids directly into the marrow of a bone (Figure 1)..
Bleeding within the body affects two principal physiological systems:.
Paramedics are trained in airway management, including in the skill of endotracheal intubation (ETI) in practice. Guidance is available to support paramedics regarding when and how ETI should be...
A ‘tourniquet’ or CAT is a device designed to specifically occlude arterial and venous blood flow in an extremity. To do this, it uses a mechanical advantage device, differing from ligature type...
Ketorolac is an NSAID, which has its action through the inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis. As an NSAID, ketorolac inhibits the action of the cyclooxygenase enzymes (COX-1 and COX-2), which...
Kovacs and Croskerry (1999) point out that clinicians use a variety and range of clinical decision-making approaches. These are dependent largely on the unique characteristics of individual clinical...
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...
‘Pericarditis is an inflammation of the two layers of the thin, sac-like membrane that surrounds the heart. This membrane is called the pericardium, so the term pericarditis means inflammation of...
Eight studies were evaluated to review the use of pre-hospital ultrasound. The OHCA studies reviewed evaluate the use of US both in and out-of-hospital. The evidence was reviewed using the Critical...
Defining pain is complex; however, it is generally agreed to be an unpleasant, emotive and personal experience (Briggs, 2010; Steeds, 2013). Pain is generally split into two categories: nociceptive...