‘The majority of sudden cardiac deaths are of ischaemic aetiology secondary to atherosclerotic coronary artery disease and affect the older section (35 years) of the population. In a significant...
‘There were 87.5% of paramedics exposed to workplace violence. Verbal abuse was the most prevalent form of workplace violence (82%), with intimidation (55%), physical abuse (38%), sexual harassment...
The manual handling risks to paramedics and fire service first responders in Australia are significant but are not quantifiable; anecdotally there are injuries associated with incidents involving...
The course was devised and designed by Gavin Wright. Gavin, an emergency medical technician, holds a moving and handling instructors diploma issued by the combined awarding body of Oxford, Cambridge...
Ambulance based paramedics across the UK do not regularly experience large numbers of seriously injured trauma patients. Delivering trauma care to patients with life-threatening injuries within this...
The following space is provided for you to reflect on how any of these articles might relate to, affect, influence of impact upon your practice. Have any of these articles struck you as particularly...
Various methods can be used to determine excess adipose tissue, in particular, Body Mass Index (BMI), waist measurement and waist-to-hip ratio..
Rhabdomyolysis is a syndrome that is characterised by the destruction of striated (skeletal) muscle leading to the release of cellular contents into the circulating blood plasma (Vanholder et al,...