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Paramedic views on clinical research in cardiac arrest

Of the paramedics who were eligible, 60% responded to the exit survey (n=101)..

Intraosseous access: a safe alternative route

IO infusion is a method of administration of medications or fluids directly into the marrow of a bone (Figure 1)..

Continuing Professional Development: Pulmonary embolism in pre-hospital care

After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to: .

Building psychological resilience in the paramedic

Historically, the origins of ‘serious play’ as a concept can be found in the seminal work of Piaget (1951) on social constructivism, and the version later developed in Harel and Papert's (1991)...

Capnography: monitoring CO2

The content of the air we breathe is a mixture of gases, with each gas exerting a pressure dependent on its proportional size. This is called its partial pressure and is abbreviated as the letter ‘P’,...

Medical vs. true physical traffic collision entrapment

This article reports data collected during a prospective, observational study carried out in the West Midland Fire Service's metropolitan area from October 2010–March 2012. All cases were patients who...

Fitness-to-practise concerns and preventative strategies

Paramedics function at the frontline of emergency care practice. A literature review identified a number of themes that illuminate their practice:.

JPP SoMe

Alan Batt I am very proud of the Fanshawe paramedic students and graduates who presented their research projects at the Fanshawe College Research and Innovation Day today…the largest submission of...

Safe transfer of simulation-based intubation skills to patients in cardiac arrest

This quasi-experimental study was performed at the pre-hospital unit in the North Denmark Region from February 2010 to December 2012, over a total of 35 months, including the 1-month training period..