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...
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 an out of hospital cardiac arrest?” .
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...
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...
A methodical literature search using well known related databases was undertaken to acquire access to a sufficient information pool, enabling the exploration and formulation of practice...
In this case study the author attended a 42-year-old male patient who complained of shortness of breath and fatigue. The patient's medical history was of intravenous drug use, myocardial infarction,...
Action learning is attributed to the British researcher Reginald Revans, who during his time as a research student at Cambridge University in the 1940s (Revans, 1982), worked alongside a talented...
Community paramedicine institutes medical monitoring, treatment, and interventions performed by a paramedic into the home setting (White and Wingrove, 2012). However, community paramedicine also...
An ability to account for our actions with a clear evidence base is a crucial component of professional accountability (Gallagher and Hodge, 2012) and reflected in a healthcare professional's code of...
It is assumed paramedics can safely identify those chest pain patients who are critically ill: those that are hemodynamically unstable for example, as well as most of the life-threatening aetiologies...
‘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...