The dilemma involved a woman aged 56 years who was offered transport to hospital for specialist psychiatric assessment during a mental health crisis. She accepted this offer and was taken to the...
The leadership principles within the UK ambulance service are centred around several strategic points. These include enhancing leadership skills and abilities (Future Leaders Study, 2009), which...
After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to: .
Recent reports of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change discuss the unequivocal contribution of ill-health and healthcare towards rising global temperatures and vice versa. The NHS has a...
To the authors' knowledge, this is the first study to explore ambulance clinicians' perceptions of the APCC role. It identifies four main themes from the perceptions of ambulance clinicians who...
The aim of this study was to explore paramedics' experiences of establishing ALS in OHCA. It seeks to lift the ALS algorithm from the page and explore, without fear of judgement, paramedics' heuristic...
Using the Goal-Question Metric (Basili et al, 2022), the aim was decided as: to analyse technology commitment for the purpose of understanding attitudes and predicting utilisation behaviour with...
Terms such as ‘neurodiverse’ and ‘neurodivergent’ emerged in the 1990s, coined by Judy Singer, an autistic sociologist, who was seeking an alternative to deficit-based language such as ‘disorder’....
The SAPB, pioneered by Blanco et al in 2013 for postoperative chest pain following breast surgery and thoracostomy, has demonstrated its potential as a valuable clinical tool. Their initial study...
Since my first column in the February issue, I have been offered a post as a newly qualified paramedic (NQP) with the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service commencing in April. I thought this article...
"This month, a lot of things have changed. As you'll recall, last month, the differences in culture, patient interaction and work style were affecting me and I definitely appreciated having this...
