Needle thoracocentesis is currently the sole method of pleural decompression adopted by UK ambulance paramedics operating under Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee (JRCALC) guidelines for...
Furthermore, a range of empirical studies in the use of wikis in higher education indicate a somewhat more complex picture. In 2006, Bower and Richards compared two different types of wikis in two...
‘This is another text which concerns the management and treatment of mass casualties’.
This is the 34th edition of the JPP and I thought it timely to refect upon Spotlight on Research after nearly 3 years of publishing reviews. Hopefully, this section of the JPP provides a useful...
‘By providing mentorship for the students, it encourages them to critically analyze incidents and recieve rapid feedback on their progression’.
There are currently seventeen university groups involved in this initiative. Students from these university groups have developed their leadership and teamwork skills by engaging in a STEPUK committee...
‘Ambulance services do far more than simply respond to emergencies and take people to A&E’.
With the publication of the 2010 European Resuscitation Council Guidelines (Nolan et al, 2010) late last year, the use of therapeutic hypothermia was recommended for the first time as part of the...
South Africa is a developing country with an upper-middle-income and advanced emerging market economy (The World Bank, 2010; FTSE, 2010). In 2009, inflation-adjusted income per person in South Africa...
The lifetime course of bipolar disorder is characterized by interspersed episodes of mania and depression. It has a lifetime prevalence of approximately 1–2% (Bebbington and Ramana, 1995) and usually...
Given the expense and potential hazard of air ambulance operations, there has to be a sound rationale for their use. Generally, air ambulances can confer four broad categories of benefit..
In order to understand what expert paramedics do at emergency scenes from the paramedics’ point of view, this inquiry focused on the level of the individual practitioner (micro). The...
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