Research

Analysis of pre-hospital consultations with crowd medical services at Premier League football club Fulham

Craven Cottage is the home stadium to Fulham FC, a Premiership football club situated in south west London, England. The club was started in 1879. In 1896, after two years of development, the club...

Development of research governance awareness to support pre-hospital studies

This project was funded by the North East and North Cumbria Academic Health Science Network, with the aim of developing easily accessible research governance awareness training tailored towards the...

A critical appraisal of the assessment and management of psoriasis

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that is considered to have a genetic influence; however, Raychaudhuri (2013) suggests that the aetiology of psoriasis remains unknown, and that only a...

Diagnosing and imaging renal calculi: what can be done in the pre-hospital environment?

The case study describes a 48-year-old female who called 999 with symptoms descriptive of renal colic. The pain had started during the night, coming in waves and had worsened throughout the morning....

Legal and professional boundaries: a case study

Laura is 29 years old and has schizophrenia. She is also 30 weeks pregnant. Her partner (Simon) has called 999—she has not been taking her medication for several days as she wrongly believed it might...

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As this paper intimates, patterns of recreational drug use are changing; while the vast majority of UK drug deaths are still related to opioids (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug...

Ambulance clinician assessment and management of transient loss of consciousness: a retrospective clinical audit

In August 2010, NICE published guidance on the management of T-LOC in adults and young people. The NICE guidance aims to ensure T-LOC patients are directed along the appropriate pathway to receive the...

Exploring the role that autonomy plays in achieving a good death: a case study

‘You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life’ .

Is IV paracetamol as effective an analgesic as IV morphine for patients in non-cardiac pain? A literature review

The literature search, along with a Cochrane Database search was conducted on 3 April 2015. This question in its key terms was inputted into PubMed, the British Medical Journal (BMJ), University of...

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With the advent of stroke centres and the increasing use of reperfusion therapies in stroke management, the need to correctly identify strokes in a timely manner is vital in reducing subsequent...

End-tidal CO2 monitoring in the pre-hospital environment: more than just endotracheal tube placement confirmation

Measurement of carbon dioxide in expired ventilation gases has been used in anaesthesia practice since the late 1970s (Sinclair, 1998) and is mandatory practice in anaesthesia departments across the...