OverviewParamedics and ambulance staff are frequently in contact with patients who have mental health diagnoses This may be the primary reason for contacting the emergency services (e.g. self-harm,...
More than a quarter of ambulance call-outs relate to elderly falls. Immobility following a fall can cause muscle to break down which can lead to rhabdomyolysis—a life-threatening condition that can be...
After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to:.
Paramedic, North West Ambulance Service, East Cheshire..
Since its introduction, POCUS has been used to enhance the assessment of a wide range of clinical conditions across medical and traumatic pathologies. For example, the ‘focused assessment with...
Delivery of DNs poses difficulties for a number of reasons. Firstly, clinicians only receive one chance to deliver a DN to family members, which is a cognitive challenge and gives no margin for error...
In the paramedic and other health professions in Australia, there is sometimes limited guidance from accrediting bodies about the necessary elements comprising a quality placement, or limited detail...
To confidently recognise the clinical presentation of rhabdomyolysis, clinicians need to understand the pathophysiological changes that occur, and the symptoms such changes create. Rhabdomyolysis, by...
Systolic pressure is the force of BP on arterial walls at the end of ventricular contraction, i.e. in systole (Tortora and Derrickson, 2017). Diastolic pressure is the force exerted by the remaining...
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