The aim of this study was to report on the administration of paramedic-delivered NMBA, which started on 1 April 2016 at SECAmb, and examine this practice innovation and its acceptability as an...
A literature review of the CINAHL, Medline and Cochrane databases was carried out using the keywords ‘burn*’ AND ‘cooling’ OR ‘hypothermia’ OR ‘airway’ OR ‘inhalation’ AND ‘emergency’. The results...
The project adopted a pragmatic, systematic approach to methods and used a formal ‘Plan, Do, Study, Act’ improvement methodology. This was influenced by traditional models of quality and safety...
A literature review was chosen to source up-to-date research and knowledge, in order to identify areas for further investigation and, ultimately, to gain more knowledge regarding a topic that is of...
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...
Three different methods of administration were examined: Fluid-giving set directly placed upon IO needle hub (direct-to-hub: DTH) (Figure 1)Fluid-giving set connected to the EZ-IO device extension...
A systematic review of the literature was conducted in compliance with the PRISMA statement (Moher et al, 2009). The review was performed on the following databases: CINAHL, Medline, AMED, PubMed,...
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..
In the UK, ketamine is primarily used as an in-hospital anaesthetic agent; but when used in small doses, can be an effective and safe analgesic (Motov et al, 2015). Unlike morphine, ketamine maintains...
Major trauma is a minor element of the total workload in emergency care, with estimations of less than 0.2% of the total workload (National Audit Office (NAO), 2010). Trauma such as dislocation,...
This study used scoping review methodology which aimed to identify, map and review existing literature on a selected topic (Levac et al, 2010). The search was inclusive of both peer-reviewed research...