Determining the paediatric educational needs of prehospital providers: part 2

Our study supports prior research documenting that prehospital providers feel less comfortable providing care to children than adults and that they desire more paediatric education (Federiuk et al,...

Doing more with less

The Emergency Services Show and Conference 2011 promotes multi-agency collaboration by bringing together stakeholders involved in emergency situations. With over 380 exhibitors and approximately 4000...

Prehospital emergency care course: PhEC

‘The course requires an in-depth knowledge of the whole range of current paramedic practice’.

Introducing International Paramedic Practice

I would like to conclude with a huge thank you to all those in the paramedic profession for helping develop and support the journal you are reading today. It is a tremendous achievement to have...

Diagnosis and management of minor head injury in the UK

To describe current NHS practice, we mailed a questionnaire to the lead clinician of all major acute hospital emergency departments in the UK and analysed routine emergency department data from...

Legislation surrounding the administration of medicines by paramedics

A formulary is a list of approved medicines. Most hospital and primary care prescribers work within an agreed formulary of medicines (which may differ between regions), and ambulance services have...

Simulation in prehospital care: teaching, testing and fidelity

There is compelling evidence to demonstrate the educational and contextual benefits of simulation in healthcare settings (Okuda, 2008; McGaghie, 2010). This is especially evident in the training of...

Book Review

‘The numerous patient scenarios interspersed throughout are thought-provoking‘.

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