Chapter 1 provides an introduction that starts by defining (prehospital) research and justifying its importance. For example, it points out an 800% increase of prehospital research on the PubMed...
This research was conducted as part of an MSc in advanced practice (prehospital care) at the University of Greenwich. It was a quantitative survey that used a convenience sample by approaching every...
The fair distribution of finite resources or ‘goods’ is distributive justice in its simplest form (Campbell, 2017). Rawls is perhaps the most influential contemporary figure who presented a...
Many paramedics will have raised their eyebrows upon entering the scene of a cardiac arrest to find bystanders performing chest compressions while the patient is lying supine on a springy mattress....
Using the EBSCOhost service, a search was conducted using the MEDLINE, CINAHL, the Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection and the APA PsycInfo databases. A further search was conducted on...
Scoping reviews offer flexibility when reviewing literature that spans multiple, diverse methodologies and allow a broad overview of a topic to be created. As such, they have been described as an...
Suggestions from the professional panel to improve driving were limited. The use of a dark mode to reduce the glare from the mobile data terminal was suggested as was using the low-power mode for blue...
Internationally, demand for emergency medical services (EMS) has changed, with increased activity often driven by patients with non-urgent medical conditions and those not requiring medical...
All six studies focused on prevalence, five were cross-sectional and one was exploratory, descriptive (Table 2)..
HIV is a disease of major importance in the UK—and despite increased HIV testing and a move towards earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy, a reduction in new cases each year proved hard to...
This service evaluation was conducted using a pre-post design, for which ethical approval was not required. The data set was anonymised before review by the research team. Approval to access, analyse...
There were 452 responses to the CP survey out of approximately 8000 paramedics in Ontario (Government of Ontario, 2017). Of the 387 respondents who provided their gender, 57.5% (n=260) were male. The...