The University of Hertfordshire (UH) was one of the first higher education institutions to offer higher education degrees for paramedics, with the first undergraduate students graduating in 2001....
Paramedics were registered in 2001 under the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine (CPSM) and then later under the Health Professions Council (HPC). The professional body was formed as the...
A literature search was performed using PubMed and CINAHL Plus®. Key words searched included: ‘paediatrics’, ‘supracondylar fracture’, ‘humeral fracture’, ‘elbow fracture’, ‘compartment syndrome’,...
Non-technical skills are one defence against error. Flin et al (2008) noted:.
Decades of research in our experimental animal resuscitation laboratory revealed that the most important intervention to improve survival of primary cardiac arrest, due to VF, was the early and...
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has the goal of returning patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) to independent living. Therefore, CPR in elderly patients requires careful...
Learn at your own place, at your own pace with the 2-6 hour online pre-course module which reviews essential information related to each type of injury. The on-site portion, presented in a convenient...
The first published description of SCD was given by Herrick (1910). Herrick took a sample of blood from Walter Noel Clement, a dental student, who had moved to Chicago from the West Indies in 1904 to...
‘Tracheal intubation without the use of drugs has little value in prehospital practice’.
One ongoing delay to the administration of treatment to patients with acute STEMI is the delay between the onset of symptoms for a patient and the time when they call for help. This is often...