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Paramedic courses at the University of Central Lancashire

‘The move of pre-registration paramedic education into universities has ignited the higher education spark among many existing paramedics within the North west Ambulance Service’.

Neutropenic sepsis: preventing an avoidable tragedy

Chemotherapy works by interfering with cell division—literally, the drugs are cytotoxic, ‘cell-toxic’. Chemotherapy is not specific to cancer cells alone and affects any rapidly reproducing cells;...

Rapid sequence airway not rapid sequence intubation

The issue is probably not who should be looking after the airway—rather it is the qualification and training that that person has received. The training to perform a laryngoscopy is not only what is...

Are current feedback methods optimal for student understanding and learning?

Nicol and MacFarlane (2006) suggest that in order to feel ownership, and therefore respond more effectively, students should have some control over the feedback they recieve. Therefore, suggesting...

Emergency care apprenticeship: a new pathway

Apprenticeships are not new but have changed their shape and content several times over the years. The need to train school leavers and re-train adults is ever present—it is the funding of this which...

Aspects of military prehospital care

The nature of wounds sustained in modern military conflict is substantially different from those seen in civilian practice. Extremity wounds predominate (Owens et al, 2007; Owens et al, 2008) and the...