Fear in the paramedic clinical environment

This article focuses on the physiological, emotional and behavioural response that is fear and considers how it impacts clinical practice. It may have some benefits; for example, the release of 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...

Social prescribing: surely, we are not just going to prescribe tea and biscuits

Wider social determinants such as income, social class, occupation and parental occupation, level of education, housing condition, neighbourhood quality, geographic region, gender and ethnicity are...

Prehospital emergency anaesthesia: time taken to care for and respond to a critically injured patient

One of the first questions raised when researching PHEA is: what is it best referred to as? The SOP produced by Pinnell and Pountney (2015), followed by the ambulance trust, is so titled, but refers...

Ambulances, outdoor air quality and health

This quality standard reinforces the importance of tackling air pollution, especially given its negative impact on children, the elderly and those living with a lung disease. The standard demands a...

Scoping ambulance emissions: recommendations for reducing engine idling time

With UK NHS ambulance trusts answering more than 10 million 999 calls in 2017, and the average ambulance vehicle travelling 50 000 miles per year (Lord Carter of Coles, 2018), several ambulance...

Continuing Professional Development: Diabetes and associated diabetic emergencies

After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to: .

Clinical decision making in paramedic practice

Decision making is a complex process (Standing, 2010) and decisions made by paramedics are based on a variety of information sources such as experience, knowledge, experience of others, research and...

Decision making for patients categorised as ‘amber’ in a rural setting

The study explored the experiences of paramedics working in rural areas. A qualitative design was used to provide depth and richness. Data were analysed through inductive thematic analysis (Braun and...

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...

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