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...
Current guidelines recommend that when right ventricular myocardial infarction (RVMI) is present, nitrates should not be administered. The advice is predicated upon the risk that decreasing preload in...
The aim of this review is to investigate paramedics' experiences of using PPE in order to better understand factors contributing to their non-adherence of PPE policy..
A systematic search was conducted to find strong primary quantitative research to determine to what extent low EtCO2 is a predictor of sepsis and if this has diagnostic value..
Except for the RIGHT-2 study, pooled analyses of previous studies suggest that very early treatment with glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) of patients with acute ischaemic stroke or intracerebral haemorrhage...
This cross-sectional study included quantitative and qualitative elements with an online anonymous survey of practitioners and a follow-up, confidential, one-to-one semi-structured interview with...
Ethical approval for this project was obtained through the Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (project number 13926), and the AV Research Governance Committee..
The literature search identified 387 results and, once duplicates had been removed, 262 results remained. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method (Moher...