TBI is the leading contributor to mortality, morbidity and disability globally, accounting for 30% of injury-related deaths in those aged 18–45 (Mangat, 2018). TBI is a national health priority, as...
Being trapped following a motor vehicle collision (MVC) provides its own set of challenges for the patient and the rescuers. Fire and rescue service (FRS) extrication strategies have developed on the...
After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to:.
Absorption is the process a drug undergoes to enter the circulation. The most common route is the oral route, where drugs are ingested orally, and then absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract into...
This systematic review will endeavour to demonstrate whether the use of a mechanical chest compression device will be a positive factor in improving survival in the cardiac arrest scenario. In...
To understand RVMI, it is necessary to look at the function of the right ventricle. According to Gupta et al (2013), the dominance of the coronary artery can be either right, left or balance. A study...
While in clinical practice during second-year placement, the lead author, a third-year student paramedic at the time of writing, attended a 49-year-old palliative care patient, Mr Smith, who was in...
Repositories are essentially large databases of published and sometimes unpublished material. They are organised in two ways:.
After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to:.
Pharmacology is a key component of undergraduate paramedic programmes. The HCPC (2014) and the College of Paramedics (CoP, 2019) curriculum guidance include pharmacology explicitly in standards and...
Both the College of Paramedics (CoP) (2018) and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) (2016) are clear that, as non-medical prescribers, advanced paramedics are required to review and critically...
Expectations were identified in policy papers, published guidance and reports from various organisations with an interest in paramedic prescribing (Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), 1999;...