As a paramedic, you will often work in a high pressure environment making split second decisions and exposing yourself both to personal risk and professional liability. It is important to ensure...
Several current UK national health policies are focused on the promotion of clinical research in healthcare. In the white paper entitled Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS (Department of Health...
The condition was first described in medical literature by Oates and Sjoerdsma (1960). Oates found that patients developed certain neuroexcitatory features after receiving the amin acid tryptophan...
Department of Health (DH) (2005) and Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (2011) statistics state that the majority of a paramedic’s workload consists of psychosocial care; however this is...
Telephone communication for consultation purposes is widely used in medicine (Thomas et al, 2001). This can range from nurses triaging patients, to the reporting of imaging or laboratory results....
Paramedics in urban and urban/rural areas of Ontario were recruited to participate in focus group sessions after ethics approval was obtained from the University of Toronto. A qualitative study of a...
Kawasaki disease is an acute systemic inflammatory illness of young children that can result in coronary artery aneurysms, myocardial infarction and sudden death in previously healthy children (Rowley...
‘the process of professionalisation for practitioners of paramedicine, currently taking place in the UK is being echoed loudly arround the world’.
Overall, 2 274 members of the public attended the KYBP event in London and had their BP measured by the LAS. Overall, 522 (23.0%) of event participants had a high BP measurement and were referred for...
