Skills development and maintenance for many paramedic emergency procedures are challenging because opportunities to learn and practise are limited. Such procedures may be required in rare and...
In 1994, DSM–IV replaced DSM–III, with a major change being the implementation of clinical-significance criterion to almost half of the identified mental disorders, including PTSD (Breslau and...
Paramedic working environments are highly complex, unpredictable and fraught with risk. If paramedics are to arrive safely at their patient's side and deliver high-quality, person-centred care, they...
Evidence supporting the effectiveness of mindfulness for health professionals is broad and covers a variety of clinical domains including nursing (Kang et al, 2009; Foureur et al, 2013; Zeller and...
In the UK, paramedics emerged from ambulance staff in the mid-1970s (Baskett et al, 1976; Briggs et al, 1976). They were trained to provide advanced resuscitation using invasive techniques that were...
Ivers et al (2012) concluded their systematic review of the effects of feedback on health professional practice by stating that it could lead to small but important improvements and recommended...
A literature search was carried out using CINAHL, MEDLINE and PsycINFO databases, using key words: ‘ambulance’; ‘paramedic’; ‘pre hospital’; ‘emergency’ and ‘mental health’; ‘mental illness’; ‘mental...
The introduction of the simulation-based training for all operational paramedics had a positive impact on the management of femur fractures. Post intervention, a total of 69 femur fractures were...
The present literature search was conducted between January and March 2017 using the CINAHL, British Nursing Index (BNI), Medline, NHS Evidence and PubMed databases using the University of Brighton...
With UK NHS ambulance trusts answering more than 10 million 999 calls in 2017, and the average ambulance vehicle travelling 50 000 miles per year (Lord Carter of Coles, 2018), several ambulance...
Representing a significantly different vision for prehospital LVO stroke identification, two research articles were published in mid-2018 that present a paradigm shift in the assessment of these...
Train paramedics to give a brief intervention (very brief advice (VBA)) on smoking cessation using the three As (AAAs). The AAAs is an opportunistic brief intervention tool given to all smokers,...