Research

Support from advanced practitioners in critical care for ankle fracture dislocation

To the authors' knowledge, this is the first study to explore ambulance clinicians' perceptions of the APCC role. It identifies four main themes from the perceptions of ambulance clinicians who...

Perceptions of establishing advanced life support for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

The aim of this study was to explore paramedics' experiences of establishing ALS in OHCA. It seeks to lift the ALS algorithm from the page and explore, without fear of judgement, paramedics' heuristic...

Technology commitment of emergency medical service practitioners and dispatchers

Using the Goal-Question Metric (Basili et al, 2022), the aim was decided as: to analyse technology commitment for the purpose of understanding attitudes and predicting utilisation behaviour with...

Can the Clinical Frailty Scale predict futility in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest?

The primary aims of this rapid review of the literature are to determine: whether the CFS could be used in the prognostication of cardiac arrest; and, secondarily, whether the tool could be adapted...

Factors that influence child conveyance decisions made by prehospital clinicians

A version of the PICO (population, intervention, control and outcomes) tool for rapid reviews specifically for the formation of clinical questions was used (Curtis et al, 2022). This version, PICo...

Classroom to escape room: an innovative experience to prepare and test students

The healthcare system in the UK is rapidly evolving, resulting in a dramatic evolution in paramedicine (Nixon, 2017), particularly since the turn of the century..