Paramedics are an important link in a stroke patient's journey as we provide the first direct healthcare contact for 80% of stroke patients admitted to hospital (Royal College of Physicians (RCP),...
After being welcomed to the conference by the RCEM President Dr Clifford Mann, we were treated to the keynote address by Dr Scot Weingart, a name that social media users may well have heard. Focusing...
‘Protecting the health and wellbeing of the participants and spectators from infection and intentional injuries related to improper food, water, waste, land and road traffic management’ .
Ramsden (2003) highlights that students will not automatically learn the skills required to critically analyse, to link ideas and to apply them to real-life situations. Education needs to be...
It has been claimed that ‘climate change presents the biggest single threat to health in the 21st century’ (Costello et al, 2009: 1693). As a result of this, services need to plan for the health...
As the title alludes to, this study took place across 10 European emergency medical services with the aim of determining if real-time objective feedback, while training on manikins, improves CPR...
This month's review sees a return to a familiar text and an equally familiar subject: hypertension. Clinicians will need little introduction to such a common medical condition but before this text is...
There were three major themes highlighted in the Taskforce's findings. Prevention of mental health problems and tackling the stigma associated with them featured highly in the priorities of both...
‘It is the sheer magnitude of these events which is driving growth rather than the underlying background growth due to demographic change, and slow incremental increase in the use of emergency...
‘There has been a stream of initiatives produced to generate public awareness regarding rights and entitlements associated with the NHS’ .
University paramedic programmes in Australia and the UK commenced as early as 1994 in Australia (Fields, 1994; Lord, 2003) and 1998 in the UK (Carney, 1999). The transition of paramedic education and...
A key performance indicator for ECHO (patients who are in cardiac or respiratory arrest) and DELTA (patients with life-threatening conditions other than cardiac or respiratory arrest) calls to the...
A Trust-wide retrospective audit of patient clinical records, where the presenting condition code used by the clinician in attendance was deliberate or accidental overdose (excluding alcohol in...
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