We undertook a mixed methods study incorporating four main components: description of the models of service delivery, evaluation of workforce and organizational issues, patient and carer evaluation,...
The authors sought to review the literature for incidence and outcomes of EMS response to retail store injuries. English language articles were found by searching MEDLINE and PubMed (1990-May 2011)...
The sudden deterioration dataset had been created previously by linking twelve months of ambulance trauma data (2002) with the Victorian State Trauma Registry (VSTR) (Boyle, 2008). The VSTR contains...
The British Association For Immediate Care (BASICS), founded in 1977, have held three day training courses for years in order to provide the PhEC (prehospital emergency care) qualification, both...
A 41-year-old Caucasian female was admitted to the emergency department, via blue-light ambulance, following an episode of acute dyspnoea associated with wheeze. She had no recent history of cough,...
Ketamine was developed by Parke-Davis in 1962 in an attempt to develop a safer alternative to phencyclidine (PCP). It was initially used medically on American soldiers in Vietnam. Ketamine has...
This study was approved by the University of Miami institutional review board. From 1 July to 30 September 2007, Ryder Trauma Centre patients were prospectively entered into the study if they met the...
‘Blended learning is realized in teaching and learning environments where there is an effective integration of different modes of delivery, models of teaching and styles of learning as a result of...
So what can the OU offer to people in the emergency care area? It might seem counterintuitive to teach such a hands-on subject at a distance, but the OU achieves this by entering into partnerships...
