Research

Prehospital amputation: a scoping review

In cases in which extrication is not possible within a reasonable time frame to prevent the death of the patient, or because of clinical deterioration or a scene safety emergency, limb or extremity...

Improving post-resuscitation care after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

With the aim of identifying literature and evidence relevant to OHCA and post-resuscitation care, online searches of PubMed, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) using NHS...

A pilot of the Paramedic Advanced Resuscitation of Children (PARC) course

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) recently produced the fourth edition of its Facing the Future publication, which sets standards for the provision of emergency care to...

Effect of placental transfusion on neonatal resuscitation attempts

The research question was developed using PICO (Table 1). As many reviews have already found them to be equally effective, DCC and UCM were used together to consider both strategies for placental...

Maximising intraosseous flow rates: an in-vitro study

Three different methods of administration were examined: Fluid-giving set directly placed upon IO needle hub (direct-to-hub: DTH) (Figure 1)Fluid-giving set connected to the EZ-IO device extension...

Examining the type and frequency of incidents attended by UK paramedics

The aim of this study was to identify the frequency of incidents attended with a view to highlighting potential issues that may exist for paramedic practice. This aim has been achieved through the...

A cross-sectional study of child injury ambulance call-out characteristics and their utility in surveillance

In 2016–2017, there were 16 285 injury-related ambulance call-outs to 0–14 year-olds in the north west of England (20.6% of all call-outs to 0–14 year-olds). The majority were unintentional injuries...

Is prehospital lactate testing useful in improving clinical assessment?

A literature search was conducted on several occasions between October 2017 and May 2018, using the Medline, CINAHL, Sciencedirect, Scopus and Academic Search Premier databases, which were accessed...

‘Do not attempt CPR’ in the community: the experience of ambulance clinicians

Three databases were searched—CINAHL, Medline and PubMed—because of their relevance and accessibility (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), 2019). The databases were searched,...

Attitudes and perceptions of paramedics about end-of-life care: a literature review

A total record of 89 papers were screened, but only 11 met the inclusion criteria after quality assessment as per the PRISMA statement (Moher et al, 2009) (Figure 1). The papers included studies...

Military and civilian handover communication in emergency care: how does it differ?

This literature review was divided into two parts, in response to the advice of specialist librarians, and it used search concept tools. The first part considered handover communication in...