Point-of-care testing for C-reactive protein in acute cough presentations

Since 1964, anti-microbial resistance (AMR) has been identified as one of the major threats to modern medicine prompting national governments and scientific communities to design strategies to combat...

The ethical and legal dilemmas paramedics face when managing a mental health patient

The patient, who will be called John for confidentiality purposes, presented to the ambulance service with an ‘altered mental state’. John had arrived at a friend's house during the night, behaving in...

Concentrate: Medical Law

Within our ever-developing profession, it stands to reason that ‘medical law and ethics’ is now found within many undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Evidence based practice from the ashes of clinical freedom

Prior to the 1980s, clinical judgement played a large part in decision-making (Hampton, 2011; Hampton, 1983), by in large leaving research the role of informing education, rather than practice. The...

Stay on the ambulance long enough and you'll go full circle: an evaluation of the clinical safety and effectiveness of non-emergency and multi-occupancy ambulance conveyance in non-emergency percutaneous coronary intervention patients

Identification of previous studies within UK Ambulance Services was undertaken initially to identify any data to support or refute the proposed study. A similar study was identified internally with...

Autoethnographic analysis of the self through an occupational story of a paramedic

I had a feeling that the job would be a challenging one given it involved a child. I glanced at the two-way radio and silently hoped; cancel us and we can go back to the mess room and work our way...

Paramedic-reported barriers towards use of CPR feedback devices in Perth, Western Australia

A voluntary, anonymous survey was distributed to SJA-WA paramedics participating in clinical refresher and research training courses from September 2015 to December 2015. The survey consisted of 11...

Book Review

Within our ever-developing profession, it stands to reason that ‘medical law and ethics’ is now found within many undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Although this book is mostly aimed at law...

Medical Pharmacology at a Glance

The evolution of paramedicine in recent years has been mirrored by parallel developments in both formal education programmes and the accompanying published literature. No more so is this best...

Sepsis and pre-hospital care: where are we now?

In February 2016, the International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis Task Force published recommendations for Sepsis-3. Major changes from earlier definitions included dropping the Systemic...

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