Many paramedics will have raised their eyebrows upon entering the scene of a cardiac arrest to find bystanders performing chest compressions while the patient is lying supine on a springy mattress....
Statistical bias occurs when the distribution of a particular dataset does not accurately represent the distribution of the population which, in turn, causes algorithms to produce inaccurate outputs,...
When paramedics are uncertain about exactly what is going on with a patient, they should start with what they do know. Even when managing a very uncertain situation, practitioners often know more than...
The heart rate is approximately 50 beats per minute and in sinus rhythm. There is left axis deviation..
This article aims to demonstrate how practice supervisor training was incorporated into the final year of a paramedic academic programme..
Using the EBSCOhost service, a search was conducted using the MEDLINE, CINAHL, the Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection and the APA PsycInfo databases. A further search was conducted on...
Scoping reviews offer flexibility when reviewing literature that spans multiple, diverse methodologies and allow a broad overview of a topic to be created. As such, they have been described as an...
This case considers a 90-year-old woman presenting with new lethargy and left-sided chest/flank pain. The patient described a multi-week history of left-sided axial rib and flank pain, a 48-hour...
Reflect on the last child seizure you attended; how did you manage this? Is there anything you could have done differently?.
The practice of prehospital critical care teams has evolved rapidly over the last decade or more, but there remains only limited research to inform its practice..
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