Massive acute pulmonary emboli (PE) is a reversible cause of cardiac arrest, with thrombolysis being the first line of treatment (British Thoracic Society, 2003). Occlusion of pulmonary blood flow is...
In order to make these recommendations, the guideline committee investigated whether enhancing the competencies of paramedics resulted in a reduction in hospital admissions and demand for emergency...
The paramedic profession has formally existed in the UK for less than two decades (Newton 2011). Historically, the role of the paramedic has been two-fold (Paranjape 2017):.
The RCOG (2009) recognises that PPH is the leading cause of obstetric haemorrhage and suggested that the incidence of PPH is rising in the UK. Sentilhes et al. (2015a) outlines that PPH, of either...
A service evaluation was performed with analysis of patient outcome by the review of patient report forms (PRFs). Patients who received pre-hospital TXA were identified and further analysis of their...
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...
Training in this curriculum is provided by military and civilian doctors and paramedics along with the forces own training team. Importantly, whilst the main aim of the course was to provide emergency...
A specialist paramedic was called to attend a local police station where a 32 year old police officer was experiencing a ‘tight and wheezy chest’. Three hours earlier he had apprehended a criminal...
Three themes emerged from the thematic analysis: challenges of communication students' negative emotional response, and lack of social care and pathways. Themes and subthemes emerged from both first...
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...
A brief analysis of a convenience sample of existing tweets found numerous breaches of professionalism and potential risks to public confidence using the legal and ethical measures identified above....
