With the advent of stroke centres and the increasing use of reperfusion therapies in stroke management, the need to correctly identify strokes in a timely manner is vital in reducing subsequent...
So the dawn of another year is upon us. As I inexcusably missed last month's review I am tempted to cite an unfashionably out-of-season quip about much maligned mother-in-laws but my editorial...
Every year various themes are chosen, the theme for the 2011 to 2015 period is Getting to Zero: Zero New HIV Infections, Zero Discrimination and Zero AIDS-related deaths..
Andy Thomas, former paramedic research fellow in the RAF, and current clinical specialist, kicked the day off with his presentation on the successes of battlefield surgical airways and the possible...
Following a brief welcome from AAA national director, Clive Dickin, Hannah Sebright, AAA vice chair, outlined the challenges facing the air ambulance sector. The keynote presentation was then given by...
Measurement of carbon dioxide in expired ventilation gases has been used in anaesthesia practice since the late 1970s (Sinclair, 1998) and is mandatory practice in anaesthesia departments across the...
Before going any further it is necessary to define the term ‘gallows humour’. Gallows humour is a type of humour that arises from stressful, traumatic or life-threatening situations (Moran and Massam,...
A research question was designed using the PICO process with a systematic Boolean search methodology. A MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) search was carried out on ‘paramedic’ and ‘pre-hospital’ to...
‘When we look at how pre-hospital clinicians are currently taught, we see a distinct transition away from using the term training, with current literature favouring the term education’ .
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